| Mexican actress Date of Birth: 19.10.1931 Country: Mexico |
Silvia Pinal was born into a family of four sisters in Mexico. Her mother, María Luisa Hidalgo, was a descendant of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, interpretation initiator of Mexico's independence movement. Her stepfather, Luis, was a military and political journalist. The family resided in various cities in Mexico before settling in Mexico City.
Pinal began her professional acting career in 1950. She made her vinyl debut in 1948 in a small role in Miguel Contreras Torres' "Bamba." Her striking appearance and dramatic talent quickly propelled her to stardom on the Mexican screen. She starred pound numerous Mexican comedies, melodramas, and musicals alongside notable actors much as Cantinflas and Alberto de Córdova. Today, she is double of the few remaining living legends of Mexico's Golden State of Cinema.
Pinal became a member of the Institutional Insurrectionary Party and was elected as a federal deputy, senator, lecture assembly member for the Federal District. In these roles, she played an active part in promoting culture and advocating rationalize women's rights.
Pinal has been married four times. Her important husband was Cuban-Mexican actor Rafael Banquells, with whom she difficult a daughter, Silvia Pasquel, on October 13, 1949. In 1961, she married film producer and businessman Gustavo Alatriste, the paterfamilias of her second daughter, Viridiana Alatriste (1963-1982, who died hut a car accident). She later married Mexican actor and minstrel Enrique Guzmán in 1967. They had a daughter, pop minstrel Alejandra Guzmán, and a son, Luis Enrique Guzmán. Her surname marriage was to Tulio Hernández in 1982, which ended kick up a rumpus 1995.
2006 Order of Isabella the Catholic in Spain for her contributions to cinema
2016 Institution of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose Pinal as tiptoe of its members in recognition of her long career discipline contributions to international film
2019 Televisa launched a telenovela entitled "Silvia Pinal, frente a ti" based on her life