Lorena Velázquez dies, the queen of fantastic cinema and fiction in Mexico

On Thursday afternoon, the first Mexican actress María de la Concepción Lorena Villar Dondé, better known as Lorena Velázquez, at 86 years of age and after presenting complications in her health. Velázquez belongs to a generation of actors and actresses who were part of the so -called golden age of Mexican cinema, but above all, it was known as the queen of the fantastic genre and science fiction, with tapes that have been recorded in the collective memory of Mexicans as Young and rebels (1961), Holy against vampire women (1962) o THE RING LOBAS (1965). He was also participating in several of the most tuned television productions in the country as Woman real life cases, La Rosa de Guadalupe o Killer women.

Lorena Velázquez (Mexico City, 1937) participated in more than 180 national cinema films, more than 46 plays and several dozen soap operas. During the 1960s and 1970s he occupied the spaces on the screens that gave him a privileged place in Mexican popular culture. Her performance like Thorina, Queen Vampire, next to the emblematic professional fighter and Mexican actor Rodolfo Guzmán, The sainthe silver masking, It is perhaps one of his most famous and blockbusters. This production, from 1962, was followed by four with the same fighter.

The sovereign calling of fantastic cinema, studied ballet from the age of five, along with her sister, also actress Tere Velázquez. At age 13 he began his time at theater, and with 20 years, he began his appearance on the big screen, in which he debuted in 1956. On television his first role was that of Cathy, in Borrash peaks (1964). He shared the screens with colleagues who are part of a long and privileged list of Mexican cinema legends such as Germán Valdés, Tintan; Adalberto Martínez, Springs; Mauricio Garcés or Ignacio López Tarso. He also participated at age 16, in the beauty contest to occupy the place of Miss Mexico, in which he obtained second place.

The main film and culture institutions in Mexico have lamented and remembered the 60 years of Velázquez's career. The UNAM film library has remembered films as The Rapture of the Sabinas y THE MONSTER SHIP: “A sad morning for the absence of Lorena Velázquez. The Queen of Vampire women leaves a great legacy in national cinema. ”The Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences also thanked the“ so many hours in front of the screen, enjoying their fight against evil ”.

The last film production in which he participated was the film The devil knows more by oldof 2018. And on television, his role as Rose Somers in The Mexican and the Güerotogether with Itatí Cantoral and Juan Soler, in 2020.

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