Isabela Corona | |
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Born |
Refugio Pérez Frías July 2, 1913 Autlán de Navarro |
Died | July 8, 1993 Mexico City |
(aged 80)
Occupation | Actress (theater, film, TV) |
Years active | 1930s – 1990s |
Isabela Corona (July 2, 1913 – July 8, 1993) was a Mexican actress.
Isabela Corona was born as Refugio Pérez Frías in El Chante, a municipio of Autlán, Jalisco. In her early years she moved to Mexico City, where she started her career on stage of the teatro Ideal as a teenager in 1926. Afterwards she participated in the Teatro Ulises and the Teatro Orientación movement of the Los Contemporáneos group, and made afterwards a career in the theater, movie and television businesses. She became better known in the end of the 1930s, when she played in La noche de los mayas.
She was considered, along with Esther Fernández, Andrea Palma and Lupe Vélez, a great Mexican cinema diva of the 1930s. Corona died six days after her 80th birthday from a heart attack.