Mercedes Pascual

Mercedes Pascual

Born: September 25, 1930
Died: June 9, 2019
in Madrid, Spain
She moved to Mexico at the age of nine, when her family had to leave Spain as a result of the Spanish Civil War, where she began attending ballet classes, participating in the Ballet Moderno de Bellas Artes and the Ballet de Opera de Bellas Artes. She later studied acting with maestro Seki Sano and at the Andrés Soler Theater Academy. Her debut as an actress was in the play La soga in 1952. The following year she became a Mexican citizen. She was the driving force and founder of the National Theater Company, and joined the stable cast when it was restructured in 2008; in 2012, she was distinguished as a Number One actress.

She had an extensive career as an actress, participating in films such as Persíguelas y alcánzalas, El retrato de Anabella, Jóvenes delincuentes, Ángel de fuego, Novia que te vea (for which she was nominated for an Ariel) and Cilantro y perejil, among many others. In television she has participated in several telenovelas, including Mi esposa se divorcia, Maximiliano y Carlota, El manantial del milagro, Viviana, Cuna de lobos, Teresa, Muchachitas, Retrato de familia and El candidato. She also acted in plays such as Miércoles de ceniza, Las criadas and El vestidor.

Mercedes married diplomat Víctor Flores Olea with whom she had her only daughter, actress Mercedes Olea. She was previously married to actor Claudio Brook, with whom she had her daughter Claudia Brook.

Her last participation was in the TV Azteca soap opera Emperatriz, where she played Doña Leonor Bustamante.

At the age of nine she began attending ballet classes, "I started in the art because I saw some great ballet artists on a ship going from Finland to I don't know where. I saw them doing their warm-up and they fascinated me, I put myself in a little corner to do the same steps they did and they told me: come here to the bar and do it with us.

At the age of 12. Mercedes Pascual entered dance classes with a Russian teacher Zakharov, later with Nina Shestakova and Sergio Unger.

The actress did not give up professional dance until she was 25 years old and even then, she continued taking dance classes because she was certain that "many things could be translated from dance to theater".

She received a scholarship from the French government to study drama in Paris, France, from 1960 to 1961 with Tania Balachova and mime with Jacques Lecoq. He was a founding member of the Université du Théâtre des Nations created in Paris in 1960.

After her studies in France, she was called by Benito Coquet, Ignacio Retes and José Solé to join the Social Security Company from 1960 to 1964,

The actress received a scholarship from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes for a postgraduate course in drama in London, England, at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with Peter Hall and Liziz Picks in 1970. This scholarship was possible thanks to the support of Héctor Azar and the architect Luis Ortiz Macedo, director of INBA at the time.

Movies for Mercedes Pascual...

Tamara and the Ladybug
Title: Tamara and the Ladybug
Character: Mrs. Amalia
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Tamara has Intellectual disability and a love for ladybugs. One day, she decides to take care of a baby but she forgets where she took him from, so she will get assistance from the old lady who sell quesadillas so they can return the baby to his parents.
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Title: Emperatriz
Character: Leonor Bustamante
Released: April 5, 2011
Type: TV
Emperatriz is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco for Azteca. It stars Gabriela Spanic as the title character, while Bernie Paz as the male lead. Other casts include Sergio de Bustamante, Julieta Egurrola, Adriana Louvier, Marimar Vega, Miriam Higareda, Alberto Guerra, Rafael Sanchez Navarro and Carmen Delgado. Omar Fierro made special appearance in the first five episodes, and later returns in the final part of the series.[1] The filming process took place between 17 March 2011 - 30 September 2011. The series premiered on 5 April 2011, 19 days after filming the first scene, at 8:30pm, occupying Prófugas del Destino's slot, and ended on 8 November 2011. Emperatriz is also known as most selling telenovela of 2011.
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A Good Death Beats a Dull Life
Title: A Good Death Beats a Dull Life
Character: Tais
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death.
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La paloma de Marsella
Title: La paloma de Marsella
Released: March 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.
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Recipes to Stay Together
Title: Recipes to Stay Together
Character: Adela
Released: December 31, 1996
Type: Movie
"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
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Like a Bride
Title: Like a Bride
Character: Abuela Sol
Released: June 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Two Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s
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Matrimonio y mortaja
Title: Matrimonio y mortaja
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Jóvenes delincuentes
Title: Jóvenes delincuentes
Released: April 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.
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Angel of Fire
Title: Angel of Fire
Character: Josefina
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
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A la misma hora
Title: A la misma hora
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Vieja moralidad
Title: Vieja moralidad
Character: Angustias
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.
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Una adorable familia
Title: Una adorable familia
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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I Love You Catalina
Title: I Love You Catalina
Character: Abuela
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female killer. Catalina is a very plain Jane looking young lady. She wears some geeky glasses and usually dresses very conservatively. She lives with her grandmother and they both seem to loathe men. Catalina’s grandmother mentions that her late daughter/Catalina’s mother was troubled by men and that cost her her life. Catalina and her mother resemble each other. At night, Catalina awakens by the vengeful spirit of her mother to advise her to go out and kill men. The kind that only want to take advantage.
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El juicio de Martín Cortés
Title: El juicio de Martín Cortés
Character: María Rosales (doña Juana de Zúñiga)
Released: November 14, 1974
Type: Movie
A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime.
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Persiguelas y... alcanzalas
Title: Persiguelas y... alcanzalas
Released: October 2, 1969
Type: Movie
After a millionaire playboy is murdered, police enlist a look-alike of the victim to impersonate him in a sting operation.
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Los años verdes
Title: Los años verdes
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Las Troyanas
Title: Las Troyanas
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Title: The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Character: Lourditas Mendiolea
Released: May 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
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El valor de vivir
Title: El valor de vivir
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
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Title: The Marked Hour
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.