Angelines Fernández

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Angelines Fernández Abad (July 9, 1922 in Madrid, Spain – March 25, 1994 in Mexico City) was a Spanish actress who found fame in Mexico.

Fernández struggled as an actress in Spain. She flew to Mexico in 1947. Although she never became a nationalized Mexican, she would remain there for the rest of her life, except for international tours and a short stint in Cuba during the late 1940s. In 1950, she returned to Mexico permanently.

Contents 1 Career 2 Films 3 Sitcoms 4 Telenovelas 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Career

Angelines Fernández acted in fourteen movies, including the classic ''El esqueleto de la señora Morales (1960), and El profe (1971) with Cantinflas. She starred in Cadenas de amor at the age of 27, and other telenovelas in the 1960s with the second to last one in 1970. It was not until she was hired in 1973 to play La bruja del 71 in El Chavo del Ocho that she cemented her status as a legend. She got that job when she asked her personal friend, Ramón Valdez, if he knew of any acting jobs she might be able to do.

She also participated in Chespiritos other show, El Chapulín Colorado years later. Ironically, it was with El Chavo... and El Chapulin... that she achieved fame in her native Spain. The two Chespirito productions became wide international hits, reaching virtually every country in the Americas and also other, non Spanish speaking countries as well. The shows are still shown with re-runs in many countries. In 1974 she participated in her last telenovela and her last film and concentrated her work around Chespirito productions.

After the shows ended in 1979, she continued playing 'la Bruja' on the hour-long "Chespirito" and on public tours. Starting later in the 80s, she began playing a second regular character on "Chespirito", Dona Nachita, the gossipy neighbor in the "Chompiras" sketches. She remained on the show until 1992.

An acknowledged tobacco smoker, she died in 1994 from a tobacco related disease. She is buried at the Mausoleo del Ángel in Mexico City, place where other legends, mostly Mexican, are buried.

[edit] Films

• Kalimán en el siniestro mundo de Humanón (1974)
• Traiganlos vivos o muertos (1972)
• El cielo y tu (1971) as conservative church woman
• El profe (1971) as Mama de Martin
• Un Quijote sin mancha (1969) as Prudencia Pingaron
• Corona de lágrimas (1968) as Mercedes Ancira
• Despedida de casada (1968)
• Esta noche sí (1968)
• Un novio para dos hermanas (1967)
• Estrategia matrimonial (1967)
• Misterios de la magia negra (1958)
• El Águila Negra contra los enmascarados de la muerte (1958)
• El diario de mi madre (1958) as Leonor
• Maternidad imposible (1955)

[edit] Sitcoms

• Chespirito (1980) as Doña Clotilde, Doña Nachita
• El Chapulín Colorado (1973)
• El Chavo del Ocho (1973-1979) as Doña Clotilde ("La bruja del 71")

[edit] Telenovelas

• Ha llegado una intrusa (1974)
• Rafael (1970)
• Encadenados (1969)
• La duquesa (1966)
• Sonata de otoño (1966)
• Tu eres un extraño (1965)
• El padrecito (1964) as Sara
• La intrusa (1964)
• Teatro del cuatro (1964)
• Mi vida es una canción (1963)
• La herida del tiempo (1962)
• La madrastra (1962)
• La familia del 6 (1961)
• La telaraña (1961)
• El esqueleto de la señora Morales (1960)
• Un amor en la sombra (1960)
• Gabriela (1960)
• El hombre de oro (1960)
• Mi niño, mi caballo y yo (1959)
• Cadenas de amor (1959)
• Teresa (1959)

[edit] See also

• Foreign-born artists in Mexico

[edit] External links

• Angelines Fernández at the Internet Movie Database
• (Spanish) Homage to El Chavo