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Silvia Pinal (born Silvia Pinal Hidalgo on September 12, 1931 in Guaymas, Sonora) is a Mexican actress famous for her roles in several of Luis Buñuel's movies such as El ángel exterminador and Viridiana.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Career in film 1.2 Career on television 1.3 Career on stage 1.4 Career in politics 2 Works 2.1 Telenovelas 2.2 Television shows 2.3 Theater 2.4 Films 3 External links

She married several times to artists and politicians, among them Cuban actor Rafael Banquells who fathered a daughter with her, actress Silvia Pasquel (Pasquel is a combination of the surnames Pinal and Banquells). She then married Gustavo Alatriste, a businessman turned movie producer that granted her desires of working with Buñuel and fathered the late Viridiana Alatriste. She also married Enrique Guzmán a Venezuelan-born actor and singer who fathered her daughter Alejandra Guzmán, a singer. Silvia and Enrique hosted a TV show in the 1970s and divorced when Alejandra was still a child.

She then married a Mexican politician and become one herself as a member of the PRI party in Mexico.

She started her career in film at the age of 18 in the movies Bamba and El pecado de Laura. Three years later, in 1952, she made the film Un rincón cerca del cielo where she co-starred with legendary actor Pedro Infante and the Mexican Academy of Film awarded her a Best Supporting Actress Ariel for her role in this film . Pinal would later receive two more Ariels for Locura Pasional (in 1955) and Enemiga (in 1956).

After marrying Alatriste, a businessman who invited Spanish-born film director Luis Buñuel to direct Viridiana, a controversial film depicting a nun (played by Pinal) and her affair with the character played by Spanish actor Juan Antonio Bardem. This film is still considered the best of the cinema of Spain and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Alatriste-Pinal-Buñuel team made two more successful films: El ángel exterminador (1962) and Simón del desierto (1965). Buñuel re-made El ángel exterminador with a French-Spanish cast years later^{[citation needed]} as Le charme discrete de la burgueoisie which obtained the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

In 1968, Pinal obtained a role in her first telenovela titled Los caudillos, a story inspired in the events of the Mexican War of Independence. With her husband, Guzmán, hosted a musical talk-show titled Silvia y Enrique on Televisa. In 1985 she produced a show that portrays viewers-submitted stories about women titled Mujer, casos de la vida real that became a success and it is still broadcasted by Televisa in Mexico and Latin America and Univision in the United States.

She acted in another telenovela in 1973 and there more in the 1980s before taking a 15-year break from these roles. In 1983, she produced Cuando los hijos se van, starred by her daughter Silvia Pasquel and Saby Kamalich. She returned to telenovela roles in 1998 with El privilegio de amar, the Best Telenovela of the Year, according to TVyNovelas. Her last two roles have been in Carita de ángel in 2000, Aventuras en el tiempo in 2001 and Amarte es mi pecado in 2004.

Pinal has also produced and starred in plays such as the Spanish language version of Mame. She then acquired her own theaters and named them Silvia Pinal and Diego Rivera and starred in Que tal Dolly!, the Spanish language version of Hello Dolly!.

In 2005, after a 12-month hiatus from stage roles, she starred in Debiera haber obispas ("There should be female bishops") of Mexican writer Rafael Solana.

She became a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and was elected to federal deputy, senator and member of the assembly of the Mexican Federal District. In these positions she played an active role towards culture and women's causes.

• Amarte es mi pecado (2004)
• Aventuras en el tiempo (2001) as Silvia
• Carita de ángel (2000) as Mother Lucía
• El privilegio de amar (1998)
• Eclipse (1984)
• Mañana es primavera (1983)
• Y ahora, que? (1980)
• ¿Quien? (1973)
• Los caudillos (1968) as Jimena

• Mujer, casos de la vida real (1985) as host
• La revista increible de Silvia Pinal (1979)
• Silvia y Enrique (1973) as host

• Debiera haber obispas (2005)
• Gipsy (1993)
• Que tal, Dolly! (Spanish version of Hello Dolly!, 1996)
• Mame

• Ya no los hacen como antes (2003) as Genoveva Reyer
• Puppy-Go-Round (1996)
• Modelo antiguo (1992) as Carmen Rivadeneira
• Pubis Angelical (1982) as Beatriz
• Dos y dos, cinco (1981) as Julia
• Carlota: Amor es... veneno (1981) as Carlota Cavendish
• El canto de la cigarra (1980) as Elisa
• El niño de su mamá (1980) as Tina
• Las mariposas disecadas (1978)
• Divinas palabras (1977) as Mari Gaila
• Los cacos (1972)
• ¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza! (1972)
• La Güera Xóchitl (1971) as Xóchitl Torres
• Secreto de confesión (1971)
• Bang bang... al hoyo (1971) as Doliente
• Caín, Abel y el otro (1971)
• Los novios (1971) as Irene
• La mujer de oro (1970) as Silvia Torres
• La hermana Trinquete (1970)
• El cuerpazo del delito (1970) as Magda Bustamante/Enriqueta (segment "La insaciable")
• El amor de María Isabel (1970) as María Isabel Sánchez
• El despertar del lobo (1970) as Kim Jones
• Shark! (1969) as Anna
• 24 horas de placer (1969) as Catalina
• María Isabel (1968) as María Isabel Sánchez
• La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968) as Felicia
• La soldadera (1967) as Lázara
• Juego peligroso (1967) as Lena Anderson (segment "Divertimento")
• Estrategia matrimonial (1967)
• Los cuervos están de luto (1965)
• Simón del desierto (1965) as The Devil
• Buenas noches, año nuevo (1964)
• El ángel exterminador (1962) as Leticia 'La Valkiria'
• Adiós, Mimí Pompón (1961)
• Viridiana (1961) as Viridiana
• Maribel y la extraña familia (1960)
• Charlestón (1959)
• Las locuras de Bárbara (1959)
• Uomini e nobiluomini (1959) as Giovanna
• El hombre que me gusta (1958) as Marta
• Una golfa (1958)
• Una cita de amor (1958)
• Préstame tu cuerpo (1958) as Leonor Rivas Conde/Regina Salsamendi
• ¡Viva el amor! (1958) as Veronica de la Maza
• Desnúdate, Lucrecia (1958)
• Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
• Dios no lo quiera (1957) as Felisa
• Cabo de hornos (1957)
• La dulce enemiga (1957) as Lucrecia
• Teatro del crimen (1957)
• La adúltera (1956) as Irene
• El inocente (1956) as Mané
• Locura pasional (1956) as Mabel Mendoza
• La vida tiene tres días (1955) as María Andrade
• Amor en cuatro tiempos (1955) as Silvia
• La sospechosa (1955) as Regina de Alba
• Historia de un abrigo de mink (1955) as Margot
• Pecado mortal (1955) as Soledad Hernández
• Un extraño en la escalera (1955)
• Vendedor de muñecas (1955)
• Si volvieras a mi (1954) as Lidia Kane
• El casto Susano (1954) as Mimí
• Hijas casaderas (1954) as Magdalena
• Reventa de esclavas (1954) as Alicia Sandoval/Isis de Alejandría
• Las cariñosas (1953) as Carmen Santibañes
• Yo soy muy macho (1953) as María Aguirre
• Mis tres viudas alegres (1953) as Silvia
• Doña Mariquita de mi corazón (1953) as Paz Alegre
• Sí... mi vida (1953)
• Me traes de un ala (1953) as Rosita Alba Vírez
• Cuando los hijos pecan (1952) as Tencha
• Ahora soy rico (1952) as Sonia Iliana
• Un rincón cerca del cielo (1952) as Sonia Iliana
• Por ellas aunque mal paguen (1952)
• Mujer de medianoche (1952)
• La estatua de carne (1951) as Marta
• Recién casados... no molestar (1951) as Gaby
• Una gallega baila mambo (1951) as Carmina
• El amor no es negocio (1950) as Malena
• El amor no es ciego (1950)
• Azahares para tu boda (1950) as Tota
• La marca del zorrillo (1950)
• El portero (1950)
• El rey del barrio (1950)
• La mujer que yo perdí (1949) as Laura
• Escuela para casadas (1949) as Teresa Moreno
• Bamba (1949)
• El pecado de Laura (1949) as Juanita

• Silvia Pinal at the telenovela database
• Silvia Pinal at the Internet Movie Database
• (Spanish) Silvia Pinal at the cinema of Mexico site of the ITESM
• (Spanish) Silvia Pinal at the Mexican Academy of Film