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- Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, Carolina Miranda is an actress mainly known for her work in soap operas and television series. She made her first appearance in the small screen in 2012 for Los Rey as Fina Rey before finding a lead role in the soap opera Las Bravo where she played Carmen Bravo. The role of Carmen Bravo gained Carolina Miranda a Palma de Oro award, an award recognized at a national level. In 2015, Carolina was part of a reality show, La Isla. In that same year, she acted in a play called La Visita del Ángel directed by Raúl Quintanilla.
Carolina also worked on two web series, Amor de Ciegas and La Cena, in which won Best Web Series in the Baja California Festival. Recently completing her fifth season of the highly successful television program on Telemundo, Señora Acero, Carolina received The Produ Awards as Actress of Revelation in 2016 for the interpretation of the queen of narco, Vicenta Acera, where she was chosen from a large panel of producers and executives where different productions and actors compete at an international level. Carolina Miranda also won Best Actress in Los México Awards in 2018, demonstrating the grand effect that she has in the area of entertainment. - Actress
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Lorelei Linklater was born on 29 May 1994 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Bomb City (2017), Waking Life (2001) and Boyhood (2014).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Her career began at 8. After some successful records and after playing significant roles in several telenovelas, in 1985 she becomes an acclaimed star in all over the world playing the leading role in Tú o Nadie. Her performance in the telenovela "Marielena" in 1994 is one of the best ever seen- Silvia Navarro is a star of TV Azteca, Mexico. Before landing the leading role of Paloma in the novela "Cuando Seas Mía", she the hostess of the show "A la Cachi, Cachi Porra" in 1997, which was her second appearence for TV. Her first appearance was in the telenovela "La mujer marcada" in 1975. In 1998, she had the hard task to have the double role of Perla/Julietta in the telenovela "Perla", 1998. In "Perla" Silvia Navarro played beside Leonardo García. Silvia Navarro has also done some serious studying in acting at the Casa del Teatro with teachers like Luis Tavira and Antonio Penunuri and in "Centro de Formacion actoral de TV Azteca". In the year 1999 Silvia got the main role in the telenovela "Catalina y Sebástian". In 2000 Silvia the star of the telenovela "La Calle de las Novias", alongside Juan Manuel Bernál and Sergio Basañez. She aslo appeared again in 2001 with Sergio Basañez in the telenovela "Cuando Seas Mía". In the year 2001 and 2002 worked Silvia as a model for Mexican companies Mundoterra (shoemaking company) and for Unefon (Mexican telephone net).
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Eric del Castillo was born on 22 July 1934 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor and writer, known for Amigas y rivales (2001), Mujeres engañadas (1999) and The Exterminating Angel (1962).- Oscar Lusth was born on 23 August 1981 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor, known for The Lights (2009).
- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Christiann Castellanos was born on 6 November 1990 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress and producer, known for Ladies of Rap (2012), In Time (2011) and 21 & Over (2013).- Actress
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Flor Silvestre, one of Mexico's greatest recording artists, was also a major star of classic Mexican movies from the 1950s and 1960s. She was born Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla in 1930 in Salamanca, a city in the State of Guanajuato. She inherited her talent from her parents, Jesús Jiménez Cervantes and María de Jesús Chabolla Peña, who were fond of singing mariachi music. Her mother wanted to live in Mexico City, so her father sold everything they owned in Salamanca and moved the family to the nation's capital. She made her debut at the age of 13 singing at the Teatro del Pueblo, a venue located in central Mexico City. Her first radio performances were broadcast by XEFO, Mexico's national radio station. Journalist and announcer Arturo Blancas suggested she change her stage name from La Soldadera (the title of one of her first songs and a play she was in) to Flor Silvestre (the title of a 1943 Dolores Del Río movie). She then won a singing contest sponsored by XEW, Mexico's most famous radio station, and sang in revues at Teatro Colonial. While performing at the Colonial, a showman offered her a contract to tour with his company. The company toured northern Mexico and later Central and South America. In 1950, she returned to Mexico City, where the showman gave her a contract to perform at Mexico's finest nightclub, El Patio. In short time, after producer Gregorio Walerstein invited her to become an actress, she made her film debut in Primero soy mexicano (1950), co-starring Joaquín Pardavé (who also wrote and directed the film) and Luis Aguilar. She also signed her first recording contract with Columbia Records. Her first hits include "Imposible olvidarte", "Pobre corazón", "Que Dios te perdone", and "Guadalajara". Following the success of the aforementioned film, she became one of the new, promising starlets of the '50s cinema of Mexico. Her most notable films from the 1950s are Raquel's Shoeshiner (1957), with Cantinflas; Pueblo en armas (1959), with Armando Silvestre; and The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959), with María Félix. In 1959, she married her recurring co-star Antonio Aguilar. Her most prominent performance is, arguably, featured in Ismael Rodríguez's The Important Man (1961), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a cinematic symbol of the Mexican Revolution, due to her portrayals of soldaderas in films such as ¡Viva la soldadera! (1960), Lauro Puñales (1969), and Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde (1979). Her last film appearance was in Triste recuerdo (1991). Overall, Flor Silvestre is known in Mexico, as well as in other countries, as an extraordinary singer and a prolific film actress.- Polo Morin was born on 3 November 1990 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor, known for La Reina Soy Yo (2019), Who Killed Sara? (2021) and Gossip Girl: Acapulco (2013).
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Gerardo Naranjo was born on 6 April 1971 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Miss Bala (2011), I'm Gonna Explode (2008) and Kokoloko (2020).- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, on November 1911, and had five brothers. His father was a General, and when he retired the family moved to Mexico city, where he worked as a teacher amongst others at the Humboldt German school, thus allowing Jorge and brother David to study there, learning German, English, French and Italian (Jorge also studied native Mexican Language by himself). From there Jorge entered the military academy. At 18 he graduated with high degrees as Lieutenant of Cavalry and Administration and worked in a weapon factory, starting medical studies and becoming administrator at Puebla military Hospital. It was during his youth that he was diagnosed with an hepatic dysfunction (hepatitis C) that did not prevent him from smoking all of his life. In 1930 he started taking singing lessons from opera director José Pierson and in 1931 he started singing on the Mexican radio, adopted the name Alberto Moreno and finally retired from the Army. In 1935 he debuted onstage with musical plays in Roberto Soto's company as a stage extra (figurante), working amongst others in "Calles y más calles" at the Teatro Lírico. Then in 1936 he traveled to New York with a friend performing as The Mexican Caballeros for NBC. He also made a test for the Metropolitan Opera but declined when he was only offered a substitution post, and got under contract instead with Eliseo Grener Cuban orchestra (he is reported to be working as a waiter when the singer became ill and Negrete won the house). The next year he made his first film appearance in the Warner Brothers short "Cuban Nights", then came his first long-length feature in Mexico, the leading role in La madrina del diablo (1937). Fox put him under contract to make Spanish films, but the Actors Union reacted and the idea was abandoned. Later on he would at last make a Hollywood movie, United Artists' Fiesta (1941) a.k.a. "Gaiety" (1941).
During the shooting of his next film, La Valentina (1938) he met actress Elisa Christy. They married in 1940, and moved for some time to New York where Jorge wrote Spanish versions to English songs for Southern Music. Back to Mexico in 1941 he met Gloria Marín on the set of ¡Ay Jalisco... no te rajes! (1941) and separated from Christy, who was pregnant with Negrete's daughter Diana, born the following year. Negrete and Gloria Marín lived together for 10 years and adopted a girl, Goyita. In 1943 he starred in The Rock of Souls (1943) where he met María Félix, equally arrogant as himself so they had frequent quarrels on the set. He had another resounding success with Me he de comer esa tuna (1945). He toured South American countries to overcrowded theaters and also starred in some Spanish films as Jalisco canta en Sevilla (1949) or Teatro Apolo (1950). In 1952 he and María Félix met again shortly after he had left Gloria Marín, pride turned to love and they married that same year.
In Mexico his star quickly rose thanks to his strong screen presence and his manly, arrogant yet good-humored singing and romantic image, dressed in charro typical attire, hence his nickname "El Charro Cantor". Most of his films are known as "ranch comedies" (comedias rancheras) where this folkloric world came alive, often including ancient songs that connected with the audience. He had an onscreen rivalry with Pedro Infante who was a friend in real life. He became one of the main stars of his time, rousing mostly feminine multitudes wherever he went. He also founded the Mexican Movie Workers'Guild and leaded the National Actor's Guild (Asociación Nacional de Actores), which would bring him many troubles as frequently confronted to the official establishment. When Cuba was taken by a hurricane Negrete acted to raise funds for the damaged. In December 1953, when attending a boxing match in Los Angeles he suffered an acute gastroesophagical hemorrhage, from which he never regained consciousness.
As a singer Negrete had a fine, wide-ranged and well trained baritone voice that often resembled a tenor's one. His classical singing education made him equally apt to sing popular songs, zarzuela and operatic arias.- Enrique Rocha was born on 5 January 1940 in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for El privilegio de amar (1998), Las vías del amor (2002) and Satanico Pandemonium (1975). He was married to Patricia Campos, Nuria Bages and Marlene Serrallés . He died on 7 November 2021 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Michel Amado Carpio was born in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. Michel Amado is a cinematographer and composer, known for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Viva el Rey (2017) and El eco del miedo (2012).- Mariana Torres was born on 2 December 1987 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Ringo, la pelea de su vida (2019), A Chance to Love (2007) and Freeks (2023). She has been married to Jonathan Nienow since 5 February 2022.
- Music Artist
- Music Department
- Actor
José Alfredo Jiménez was born on 9 January 1926 in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was a music artist and actor, known for Machete (2010), A Bigger Splash (2015) and Lone Star (1996). He was married to Paloma Gálvez, Alicia Juárez and Mary Medel. He died on 23 November 1973 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Director
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Edgar Nito was born on 18 December 1986 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. Edgar is a director and producer, known for The Gasoline Thieves (2019), Barbarous Mexico (2014) and Masacre en San José (2015).- Cehlia Barnum Newman was born in San Miguel De Allende in October of 1968. Newman's parents had lived there for 7 years before she was born, and just a few short years after her birth they moved to Texas. Cehlia attended and received a degree from The University of The Incarnate Word, where she majored in Child Psychology and Minored in Theater and Fine Art.
Cehlia Newman began acting in 1974 as a young child in stage productions at the San Antonio Little Theater. She continued to act in theater productions off and on throughout her youth. Newman appeared in several episodes of "Dallas" as well as numerous television and print advertisements. She did a MFTV and some appearances on series.
Her first feature film role was a in the cult classic "Legend of Billie Jean". She met with the producer and director and it was decided that even though she wasn't right for the role for which she auditioned (she would have had to cut her hair into "Billie Jean's" style) they would write one in for her.
Newman went on to work periodically in several theater productions, honing her skills and exploring her option in the film world. In 1988 Cehlia was cast as "Paco's girlfriend; Maria" in "Lost Angels" with Donald Sutherland, Adam Horowitz and Amy Locane. Newman was convinced by her new agent, David Shapira, to move to LA and "seriously" pursue the acting gig. Newman moved to LA 1990 at that time she also acquired manager Mike Atkissson.
After hundreds upon hundreds of auditions for film and television, Newman realized she was only being cast as the "ethnic" character, i.e. biker's girlfriend, victim, gang member, etc... Cehlia had several casting directors suggest she change her name from the "Mexican" sounding Cehlia to something more "American". She was also encouraged to dye her hair, a more "90s" acceptable blond color.
Completely disgusted with the industry's lack of foresight, Cehlia began concentrating on her artwork. As the child of two professional artists, she was ultimately forced to accept her "genetic" path and pursue a more fulfilling career in Fine Art.
In early '91 Newman returned to Texas and worked as a computer program designer for several years before entering UIW and completing her degree.
Cehlia Newman is currently living in Texas with her husband(Jose Menendez)and son and daughter. She serves on several community boards, maintains a passionate interest in public policy and continues to support her husband's political career.
Cehlia owns an on-line jewelry company and designs one-of-a-kind jewelry. Newman is still creating and displaying her artwork, with private and public shows in San Antonio and Austin. - Luz María Jerez was born on 5 July 1958 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Acapulco La vida va (2017), Por un beso (2000) and Muerte en el Río Grande (1982).
- Pilar Cazares is an actress, known for Sapins (2023), American pie presents Beta House, Who Is KK Downey? Me and Marty among other films, commercials and music videos. She has participated in several independent films and is fluent in 4 languages, English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Pilar is a triple threat, the camera loves her, she is a naturally gifted Actor, Singer and Dancer.
- Arturo Soto Rangel was born on 12 March 1882 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Maclovia (1948) and Las abandonadas (1945). He died on 25 May 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Joaquín Pardavé was born into the theatrical milieu, the son of a pair of stage actors. He was a popular stage actor and appeared in several silent films and some early sound features, but achieved his greatest fame in the early 1940s in films like México de mis recuerdos (1944) and El baisano Jalil (1942) (which was also the first picture he directed). In addition to acting, Pardavé directed and wrote films and also wrote songs, although he could not read music. Although many of his early roles were comedic in tone, he was also capable of drama, as in Ojos de juventud (1948). Pardavé married Soledad Rebollo in 1925, but the couple had no children. He suffered a stroke and died in July 1955.- Actor
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Pedro Vargas was born on 29 April 1904 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Great Expectations (1998), Los chiflados del rock and roll (1957) and Los tres bohemios (1957). He was married to María Teresa Campos y Fernández de Jáuregui. He died on 30 October 1989 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actor
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- Soundtrack
Fabián Robles was born on 16 April 1974 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Apuesta por un amor (2004), Mañana es para siempre (2008) and Soy tu dueña (2010).- Tere Tarin was born on 3 September 1973 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress, known for The Pearl (2004), Ave María (1999) and Rosalinda (1999).
- Ramón Sánchez was born in 1917 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for El hombre sin rostro (1950), Zonga, el ángel diabólico (1958) and La noche del jueves (1962). He was married to Luz María Pardini. He died on 12 September 1962 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Mario Castañeda was born on 29 June 1962 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), Dragon Ball (1995) and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015). He is married to Susana Melgarejo Franco. They have one child. He was previously married to Rommy Mendoza.
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Fernanda Valadez was born on 22 August 1981 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is a producer and director, known for Identifying Features (2020), Sujo (2024) and 400 Maletas (2014).- Ramón Bugarini was born on 20 March 1932 in Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964), Hellish Spiders (1968) and Santo vs. the Zombies (1962). He died on 6 April 2004 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Actor
- Composer
Federico Falcón was born on 4 October 1935 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor and composer, known for The Scapular (1968), La tigresa (1973) and The Vengeance of the Vampire Women (1970). He was married to Magda Guzmán. He died on 11 August 1980 in Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico.- Josefina Echánove was born on 21 July 1928 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Beyond the Limit (1983), Rubí (2004) and La casa al final de la calle (1989). She was married to Alonso Echánove Aznar. She died on 29 December 2020 in Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Christina Pastor was born on 16 July 1980 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Sortilegio (2009), Corazón de melón (2003) and Zacatillo, un lugar en tu corazón (2010). She has been married to Antonio Gandía since 23 August 2015.- Alonso Echánove was born on 28 August 1954 in Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Love Lies (1989), Vintage Model (1992) and La casa al final de la calle (1989). He was married to Marisela Navarro. He died on 30 November 2022 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Jose Portugal was born on 4 March 1908 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Farewell to Youth (1943) and Topper (1953). He died on 25 December 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Sound Department
Jose Luis Rodriguez was born on 28 August 1953 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Clave privada (1996), Muerte en Tijuana (1991) and Sirviendo Al Enemigo (2021).- Margarito Luna was born on 13 April 1910 in Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970). He died in August 1977 in Mexico.
- Rodrigo Puebla was born on 13 March 1929 in San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Romancing the Stone (1984), Retorno a Aztlán (1990) and Island of Lost Souls (1974). He died on 15 January 1993 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- In 1948, the Mexican masked wrestler Black Shadow formed a famous tag-team with another well-known masked luchador named The Blue Demon, and the two became known in the ring as Los Hermanos Shadow (the Shadow Brothers) over the next few years. In 1952, the famous wrestler SANTO beat and unmasked The Black Shadow in the ring, which triggered a legendary feud between The Blue Demon and Santo that culminated in Blue Demon beating Santo in a well-publicized series of matches, one in 1952 and the other in 1953. Although they appeared together years later in a series of Mexican horror films, Santo always remembered his defeat at the Blue Demon's hands. Although the Black Shadow never really became a super-star of Mexican cinema like Santo or Blue Demon, he did appear in a number of Mexican wrestling/ action films (usually as a minor background character), listed alternatively as the Black Shadow or as Alejandro Cruz. In two separate Blue Demon films, the Black Shadow played the role of an evil clone or duplicate of the Blue Demon, committing crimes while wearing the Blue Demon's trademarked mask in order to incriminate him in the eyes of the police. Alejandro Cruz's listing as "Blue Demon" in the credits of these 2 films led many years later to the mistaken impression some fans had that Alejandro Cruz and the Blue Demon were the same person! In "The Champions Of Justice" (a 1970 film in which Blue Demon led a squad of masked Mexican superheroes to combat evil), the Black Shadow played a major role as the villain's Number One henchman, and as a result he got a lot more screen time in this film. But in most of his other films, he usually played an anonymous thug, goon, henchman, zombie or a contestant in the various wrestling sequences that were used to pad out the films' running times.
- Georgina Salgado was born on 27 September 1986 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Don't Mess with an Angel (2008), Rebelde (2004) and Sexo y otros secretos (2007).
- Gilberto González was born on 19 February 1902 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Pearl (1947), Canaima (1945) and Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950). He was married to Lydia Pérez Martínez and Eliane Arcq Tournoret. He died on 21 March 1954 in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.
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- Actor
Hugo Villaseñor Alcazar was born on 12 January 1986 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is a director and writer, known for Las Lágrimas de Bael, What Will You Do When God Dies? (2021) and Comuna (2021).- Actor
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Jorge Arvizu was born on 23 July 1932 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for El asesino del metro (1991), Zapata (1970) and Cuestión de honor (1993). He died on 18 March 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actor
- Production Manager
- Producer
José L. Murillo was born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is known for Jugándose la vida (1963), Cazadores de cabezas (1962) and El fistol del diablo (1961).- Writer
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- Director
José Buil was born on 19 March 1953 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is a writer and editor, known for La línea paterna (1995), Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001) and La leyenda de una máscara (1990).- Additional Crew
Diego Rivera was a revolutionary Mexican artist and controversial politician, whose actions fluctuated from supporting Joseph Stalin and Soviet communism to dealing with Henry Ford and other tycoons promoting Pan-Americanism.
He was born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico, the son of Maria del Pilar Barrientos and Diego de la Rivera y Acosta. His twin brother, Carlos, died in infancy, and Diego Rivera was raised as the only child. His father was a municipal counselor in Guanajuato, and a man of liberal views. He arranged an art studio for young Rivera by covering the walls of his room with drawing paper and encouraging him to paint all over the walls from the age of three. His mother was an obstetrician and a very religious Catholic. Diego also had an Indian nanny, named Antonia, who was an inspiration for many of his paintings and nurtured his love for the indigenous culture.
In 1892 the family moved to Mexico City, where Rivera's father worked for the Mexican government. Young Rivera studied at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City from 1898-1905. In 1906 he exhibited 26 works at San Carlos Academy. At that time his father worked as inspector at the federal Ministry of Public Education, and was instrumental in obtaining a government grant for Rivera to study in Europe.
He lived in Europe from 1907-1921. At first he studied in Madrid for two years, then settled in Paris where he studied art at museums and became involved in the Parisian cultural milieu. There Rivera developed a friendship with Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Augusto Modigliani, Henri Matisse and many others who defined 20th-century art. He was involved with the Montparnasse artists community of La Rouche (The Beehive). His greatest artistic influences after El Greco were his wife, Russian sculptor Angelina Beloff and artists Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso. Together with Beloff, Rivera experimented in making a series of Cubist works between 1913 and 1917. Then Rivera broke from Picasso and the Cubists. He decided to find his own style, but his art dealer and critics did not appreciate Rivera's change of style.
Rivera met Beloff, a Russian artist trained in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1909 at the Brussels trade fair, beginning what Rivera regarded as the "one and only true love of [my] life." Two years later they married in Paris and lived together as a couple for another seven years. Rivera revered her love, honesty and loyalty, confessing, "She gave me everything a woman can give to a man. In return, she received from me all the heartache and misery that a man can inflict upon a woman." Their son was born in 1917 but died during the worldwide influenza pandemic of 1918. Beloff was the one who saved Rivera from trouble several times while he was out of control and violent. In one case he was drunk at a Parisian café and started a fight with other artists, but she managed to save him from being arrested. Eventually Rivera's actions resulted in his destroying his own reputation among the artists of Paris.
His family life was also in trouble. While Beloff was pregnant with his son, Rivera lived with another Russian artist, the famous beauty Maria (Marevna) Vorobieff-Stebelska, and they had a daughter, named Marika Rivera, born in 1919. Unstable, violent and a womanizer, Rivera was torn between his two women. He tried to kill Marevna, but as his knife cut into her throat their baby girl started to cry, which stopped him from taking the woman's life. However, her neck was disfigured with scars from the attack--she later did the same thing to Rivera--and they later divorced.
As passionate as ever, Rivera became involved in politics. He and David Alfaro Siqueiros met in Paris in 1919. They were both impressed with the Mexican revolution of 1914 and the Russian revolution of 1917. The two discussed the development of new monumental art that would reflect Mexico's political and cultural transformation. Both agreed that art should not be isolated in museums and galleries, but must be made accessible to the people outdoors, spread on the walls of public buildings. They created the new iconography that represented complex social and historic context. They introduced national themes, political events, religious motifs and a pre-Hispanic history in their large-scale murals. The two returned to Mexico and led the revival of mural art in the 20th century. They remained friends for many years and made a profound impact on Mexican art, known as the Mexican Mural Renaissance.
Back in Mexico, Rivera joined the Communist Party in 1922, and co-founded with Siqueiros the "Syndicato"--a union of workers, artists and sculptors. From 1922 to 1926 Rivera worked on 124 frescoes on the courtyard walls of the Ministry of Public Education. His work began the revival of mural painting and made him famous in the Western world. At that time Rivera was married to Guadalupe Marin, and they had two children. In 1927 he traveled with a delegation from the Mexican Communist Party to the Soviet Union. There he took part in the 10th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution and also attended a massive reception party in Moscow, which was hosted by Joseph Stalin. Rivera had discussions with Soviet cultural authorities, which led to provocative debates. He signed risky political statements and sided with the Trotskyite faction of Soviet communism, led by Lev Trotskiy, together with militant Bolsheviks; this caused his expulsion from the USSR. Back in Mexico, in 1928, he met artist Frida Kahlo and divorced Guadalupe Marin. He was appointed the head of the Department of Plastic Crafts at the Ministry of Education in 1929, the year he and Kahlo married.
He lived and worked in the US during the 1930s. In New York he began his work on his first major American commissions. His mural at the American Stock Exchange Luncheon Club subtly incorporated Rivera's radical policies while trying to maintain a sense of simple history. Rivera investigated the exploitation and struggles of the working class. Henry Ford invited him to Detroit at the height of the Great Depression. From 1932-1933 Rivera created a paean to the American worker on the walls inside the garden court of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The composition of 27 fresco panels depicted industrial life, focusing on the workers of Detroit's auto industry. Thanks to Edsel Ford, the frescoes survived much controversy and remain Rivera's most significant painting in the US. His next mural in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center included a scene of a giant May Day demonstration with a portrait of Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. It was chipped off the wall and destroyed in 1934, because Rivera refused to remove Lenin. He kept the money from the Rockefellers and re-created that mural at the Independent Labor Institute in Mexico City under the title "Man, Controller of the Universe" depicting Lenin and Trotsky as leading figures.
Rivera was instrumental in obtaining political asylum in Mexico for Trotsky, who had been exiled by Soviet dictator Stalin. Rivera was initially approached by his political friend, Alberto J. Pani, who petitioned for Trotsky. When the moment was right, Rivera sought out Mexican President 'Lazaro Cardenas', who agreed to grant Trotsky political refuge. Trotsky and his wife were invited to live in Rivera's home in Coyoacan. They also socialized with surrealist writer André Breton and his wife, and traveled together. Eventually a series of personal and political conflicts developed between Rivera and Trotsky. Rivera discovered that Frida and Trotsky were having an affair at his home. He divorced Frida in 1940, and then went to San Francisco to participate in the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. At the same time, Rivera's friend Siqueiros led a failed assassination attempt on Trotsky in Rivera's Coyoacan home. In August of 1940 Trotsky was murdered by Ramón Mercader, a professional assassin. Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarried in December of 1940 and lived together until her death in 1954. After that Rivera made another trip to the Soviet Union and had meetings with post-Stalin Soviet authorities.
Meanwhile, Rivera's first wife, Angelina Beloff, moved to Mexico looking for him and asked him for alimony, which he never paid. Rivera, who had remarried twice by that time and had other relationships outside his marriages, refused to recognize her and their son, who died while they lived together in Paris. Rivera even denied that he was ever in a relationship with Beloff, and refused her any support. She survived by teaching sculpture, and eventually founded the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana in 1949. She died in 1969 in Mexico.
In 1955 Rivera married his art dealer Emma Hurtado. In the fall of 1955 he underwent a surgery and went through cobalt treatments. He spent the last two years of his life in his native Mexico. Diego Rivera died of heart failure on November 24, 1957, in his studio in San Angel, Mexico. He was laid to rest in the Rotunda of Famous Men in Civil Pantheon of Mourning in Mexico City, Mexico.- A native of Celaya, Mexico, Univision Chicago Digital anchor Diana Pérez moved to Chicago at the age of six. She learned English by watching the news, which inspired her to earn a bachelor's degree in communications and sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Pérez joined the Univision Chicago team in 2015 as a weather anchor before eventually transitioning to the Univision Chicago Digital team to become its daily news anchor. From 2019, she Co-Hosted the region's first ever Spanish-language morning show "Primera Hora" (First Hour) with Alex Hernández.
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Jan was born on 30 April 1974 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is an actor, known for Amarte es mi pecado (2004), Heridas de amor (2006) and DKDA: Sueños de juventud (1999). He was previously married to Alejandra Quintero.- Writer
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Raúl Velasco was born on 24 April 1933 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was a writer and producer, known for Siempre en Domingo (1970), Nuestras tradiciones navideñas (1987) and Amor en Vallarta (1986). He was married to Dorle and Klukow, Dorie. He died on 26 November 2006 in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Manuel Muñoz was born on 28 April 1917 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an assistant director and director, known for Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Las chivas rayadas (1964) and Asesinos de la lucha libre (1962). He was married to Dolores Hernández Ramírez. He died on 15 July 1986 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Adriana Lamar was born in 1908 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Jesús de Nazareth (1942), El pecado de una madre (1944) and Chucho el Roto (1934). She was married to Ramón Pereda and Alfonso Almeida. She died on 30 January 1946 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Carlos Hernández Vázquez was born on 14 August 1983 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is a producer and director, known for Lejos de Casa (2022), De puro aire (2014) and El Grillo (2021).