Carmen Montejo
Age: 87 | From: Pinar del Río, Cuba
Person Details
Birthday: 1925-05-26 09:11:10
Death: 2013-02-25 09:11:10
Aliases: María Teresa Sánchez González
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Pinar del Río, Cuba
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Movie Involvements: 32
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
Biography
Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 - February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico. Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her collage studies her parents offered her a trip to the United States but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months. After arriving in Mexico she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943 she obtained a role in the film Resurrección directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and then Chano Ureta who changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo. In Venezuela she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans. In television she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s. For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias. Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City. She was 87.
Most Famous Work
Adventures in Time
(2001) Margarita Rosales de Flores
Las Lunas del Auditorio
(2002) Herself
Sigo Te Amando
(1996) Paula Garza Vda. de Torres-Quintero
Friends 4 Ever
(2000) Doña Julia Ruvalcaba vda. de Vidal
Den of Wolves
(1986) Esperanza Mandujano
Mágica juventud
(1992) Leonor Jiménez Vda. de Retana/Pepita
We the Poor
(1948) Yolanda la Tísica
Juana Iris
(1985) María LuisaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Verónica Vda. de Velázquez | |
| 2002 | Herself | |
| Mariana Toscano | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2001 | Margarita Rosales de Flores | |
| 2000 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| Doña Julia Ruvalcaba vda. de Vidal | ||
| 1996 | Paula Garza Vda. de Torres-Quintero | |
| 1992 | Leonor Jiménez Vda. de Retana/Pepita | |
| 1986 | Esperanza Mandujano | |
| Selene | ||
| 1985 | Celia | |
| María Luisa | ||
| 1984 | Mrs. Falcon | |
| 1983 | N/A | |
| Emilia | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| Doña Toña | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1980 | N/A | |
| 1979 | Laura | |
| 1978 | Aunt Guadalupe | |
| 1977 | Marta/ La Macabra | |
| 1976 | María | |
| N/A | ||
| Doña Elisa - Abuela | ||
| 1975 | Gloria Nava | |
| Doña Agueda | ||
| 1973 | Magdalena, prostituta vecina | |
| Mrs. Cuéllar | ||
| 1972 | Zoyla | |
| Demetria | ||
| Elena Guardiola | ||
| 1971 | Remedios | |
| 1969 | Tía Jenny | |
| N/A | ||
| Tía Claudia | ||
| 1968 | Madre superiora | |
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | Martha Maretti | |
| 1964 | N/A | |
| 1963 | N/A | |
| 1961 | Rosa, Madre de Alicia | |
| 1958 | N/A | |
| 1957 | Eloisa | |
| N/A | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
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| 1955 | N/A | |
| Señora Adela Perez | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1954 | Luisa Barrios de Benet | |
| 1953 | Feminist Nurse | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Leonora | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Yolanda | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marta | ||
| María Franco Ruiz | ||
| Clara Stein | ||
| N/A | ||
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| 1949 | Lucia | |
| N/A | ||
| Tirsa Mendieta | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1948 | Yolanda la Tísica | |
| 1947 | Susana | |
| 1946 | N/A | |
| Martha | ||
| 1945 | N/A | |
| Pilar | ||
| 1944 | N/A | |
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| 1943 | N/A | |
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| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |