Carmen Montejo

Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 – February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born Mexican actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico.

Carmen Montejo
Born
María Teresa Sánchez González

(1925-05-26)May 26, 1925
Pinar del Río, Cuba
DiedFebruary 25, 2013(2013-02-25) (aged 87)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationActress
Years active1943–2009
Spouse(s)
Manuel González Ortega
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(m. 1945; died 1950)​
ChildrenMaría González

Biography

Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González. Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba, she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her college studies, her parents offered her a trip to the United States, but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months.

After arriving in Mexico, she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943, she obtained a role in the film Resurrección, directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares, and then Chano Ureta changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo.

In Venezuela, she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater, she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans.

In television, she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s.

For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias.

Death

Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City.[1] She was 87.

Theater

Telenovelas

Films
  • Las caras de la luna (2002) as Mariana Toscano
  • Corazones rotos aka Broken Hearts (2001) as Doña Fide
  • Las caras de la luna (2001)
  • Entre la tarde y la noche (1999)
  • La casa que arde de noche (1985)
  • Ni Chana, ni Juana (1984)
  • Burdel (1982)
  • El gran triunfo (1981)
  • Mamá, soy Paquito (1981) as Sra. Falcon
  • La muerte del Palomo (1981)
  • En la tormenta (1980)
  • En la trampa (1979)
  • The Children of Sanchez (1978) as Guadalupe
  • Dinastía de la muerte (1977) as Doña Herminia del Fierro
  • Prisión de mujeres (1976)
  • Coronación (1976) as Abuela
  • Renuncia por motivos de salud (1975)
  • El rey (1975) as Señora del Rivero
  • Presagio (1974)
  • El profeta Mimí (1972)
  • Los cachorros (1971)
  • Doña Macabra (1971)
  • La verdadera vocación de Magdalena (1971)
  • Los marcados (1970) as Remedios
  • Las vírgenes locas (1970)
  • ¿Por qué nací mujer? (1970)
  • La muñeca perversa (1969)
  • The Adolescents (1968)
  • Aventuras de Juliancito (1968)
  • Sor Ye-Ye (1967)
  • La recta final (1966)
  • El río de las ánimas (1964)
  • Los jóvenes (1960)
  • El vampiro (1957) as Eloisa
  • Dos diablillos en apuros (1957)
  • Cara de ángel (1956)
  • El túnel seis (1955)

Television

References
  1. "Murió Carmen Montejo - Univision Novelas y Series". Novelasyseries.univision.com. 1970-01-01. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  • Agrasánchez Jr., Rogelio (2001). Bellezas del cine mexicano/Beauties of Mexican Cinema. Archivo Fílmico Agrasánchez. ISBN 968-5077-11-8.
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