Mercedes Pascual
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Biography: She moved to Mexico at the age of nine, when her family had to leave Spain as a result of the Spanish Civil War, where she began attending ballet classes, participating in the Ballet Moderno de Bellas Artes and the Ballet de Opera de Bellas Artes. She later studied acting with maestro Seki Sano and at the Andrés Soler Theater Academy. Her debut as an actress was in the play La soga in 1952. The following year she became a Mexican citizen. She was the driving force and founder of the National Theater Company, and joined the stable cast when it was restructured in 2008; in 2012, she was distinguished as a Number One actress. She had an extensive career as an actress, participating in films such as Persíguelas y alcánzalas, El retrato de Anabella, Jóvenes delincuentes, Ángel de fuego, Novia que te vea (for which she was nominated for an Ariel) and Cilantro y perejil, among many others. In television she has participated in several telenovelas, including Mi esposa se divorcia, Maximiliano y Carlota, El manantial del milagro, Viviana, Cuna de lobos, Teresa, Muchachitas, Retrato de familia and El candidato. She also acted in plays such as Miércoles de ceniza, Las criadas and El vestidor. Mercedes married diplomat Víctor Flores Olea with whom she had her only daughter, actress Mercedes Olea. She was previously married to actor Claudio Brook, with whom she had her daughter Claudia Brook. Her last participation was in the TV Azteca soap opera Emperatriz, where she played Doña Leonor Bustamante. At the age of nine she began attending ballet classes, "I started in the art because I saw some great ballet artists on a ship going from Finland to I don't know where. I saw them doing their warm-up and they fascinated me, I put myself in a little corner to do the same steps they did and they told me: come here to the bar and do it with us. At the age of 12. Mercedes Pascual entered dance classes with a Russian teacher Zakharov, later with Nina Shestakova and Sergio Unger. The actress did not give up professional dance until she was 25 years old and even then, she continued taking dance classes because she was certain that "many things could be translated from dance to theater". She received a scholarship from the French government to study drama in Paris, France, from 1960 to 1961 with Tania Balachova and mime with Jacques Lecoq. He was a founding member of the Université du Théâtre des Nations created in Paris in 1960. After her studies in France, she was called by Benito Coquet, Ignacio Retes and José Solé to join the Social Security Company from 1960 to 1964, The actress received a scholarship from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes for a postgraduate course in drama in London, England, at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with Peter Hall and Liziz Picks in 1970. This scholarship was possible thanks to the support of Héctor Azar and the architect Luis Ortiz Macedo, director of INBA at the time.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: September 25, 1930
Deathday: June 09, 2019
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Gender: Female
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Matrimonio y mortaja
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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El valor de vivir
Overview: Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Los años verdes
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Persiguelas y... alcanzalas
Overview: After a millionaire playboy is murdered, police enlist a look-alike of the victim to impersonate him in a sting operation.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-02
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I Love You Catalina
Overview: An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female killer. Catalina is a very plain Jane looking young lady. She wears some geeky glasses and usually dresses very conservatively. She lives with her grandmother and they both seem to loathe men. Catalina’s grandmother mentions that her late daughter/Catalina’s mother was troubled by men and that cost her her life. Catalina and her mother resemble each other. At night, Catalina awakens by the vengeful spirit of her mother to advise her to go out and kill men. The kind that only want to take advantage.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Una adorable familia
Overview: Mexican feature film
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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A la Misma Hora
Overview: Mexican feature film
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Vieja moralidad
Overview: The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Jóvenes delincuentes
Overview: A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-04-18
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Angel of Fire
Overview: The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Like a Bride
Overview: Two Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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A Good Death Beats a Dull Life
Overview: The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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Recipes to Stay Together
Overview: "Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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La paloma de Marsella
Overview: Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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El juicio de Martín Cortés
Overview: A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-14
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Overview: A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Las Troyanas
Overview: Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Tamara and the Ladybug
Overview: Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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