Silvia Pinal, an actress in Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema, has died at 93

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Silvia Pinal, an actress from Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema within the Forties and 50s, has died. She was 93.

Over her 60-year profession, Pinal appeared in films with Mexican comics like Cantinflas and Tin Tan, heartthrobs like Pedro Infante, and starred in Luis Buñuel’s 1961 movie “Viridiana.” Pinal went on to look in two different Buñuel movies, “The Exterminating Angel” in 1962, and “Simon of the Desert” in 1965.

She was one of many few Golden Age actresses who additionally tailored to a subsequent profession in tv, after the standard of Mexican movie started really fizzling out within the Nineteen Sixties. She additionally labored as a producer, and served in Congress.

Earlier this month, her household stated she had been hospitalized for a urinary tract an infection. Her demise was confirmed by Mexico’s Tradition Secretary, Claudia Curiel de Icaza.

“Her legacy as an artist and her contributions to our tradition are unforgettable. Relaxation in peace,” Curiel de Icaza wrote in her social media accounts.

She is survived by her ex-husband, Enrique Guzmán, and her daughters, actress Sylvia Pasquel and rock singer Alejandra Guzmán.

Funeral plans weren’t instantly introduced.

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