Katy Jurado
| Katy Jurado | |
|---|---|
| Born |
María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García January 16, 1924 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | July 5, 2002 (aged 78) Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| Resting place | Panteon de La Paz, Cuernavaca |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1943–2002 |
| Spouse(s) | Víctor Velázquez (1939–1943)(divorced) 2 children Ernest Borgnine (1959–63) (divorced) |
| Children | Victor Hugo Velázquez (d. 1981) Sandra |
María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, better known as Katy Jurado (January 16, 1924 – July 5, 2002), was a Mexican and American film, stage and television actress.
Jurado began her acting career in Mexico in 1943. During the 1940s and early 1950s, during the era called the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, Jurado achieved a great popularity, playing villainous "femme fatale" characters in various Mexican films. In 1951 she was discovered in Mexico by the filmmaker Budd Boetticher and began her career in Hollywood in the film The Bullfighter & the Lady. Her quality as an actress and her exotic beauty, attracted the attention of Hollywood producers. Since then, she became in a regular actress in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked in many classics of the genre like High Noon (1952), Arrowhead (1953), Broken Lance (1954), One-Eyed Jacks (1960), and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), among others. She became the first Latin American actress nominated for an Academy Award, as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954's Broken Lance, and was the first to win a Golden Globe Award in 1952's High Noon.
Jurado made seventy-one films during her career. Like many Latin actors, she was typecast to play ethnic roles in American films. By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films; sometimes she also sang and danced. In her long and successful career, she also dabbled in theater and television and remained practically in force until her death.
Jurado was one of several Mexican actresses to succeed in Hollywood. Others are Dolores del Río, Lupe Vélez and Salma Hayek.
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