The National Association of Actors ( es, Asociación Nacional de Actores, ANDA) is the
Mexican
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actors
guild
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. It is a member of the
Bloque Latinoamericano de Actores (BLADA, the Latin American Actors' Block) that includes all of the actors'
unions in
Latin America
Latin America or
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.
The ANDA is headquartered in the ''colonia'' (borough)
San Rafael of
Mexico City
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and currently presided by Yolanda Cianí as
general secretary
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.
ANDA began in 1934 as an independent union of actors guilds from throughout Mexico. When
Angel T. Sala
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became its secretary general in 1936, the union was subsumed into the Union of Cinema Studio Workers (''Unión de los Trabajadores de Estudio Cinematográficos'', UTEC), which was under the control of the
CTM, a labor confederation with allegiance to the ruling
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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. The actors, however, continued their struggle for independence and for
union democracy
Union democracy is a term referring to the governance of trade unions, in terms of the quality of election procedures at ensuring the executives of a union most accurately represent the interests of the members.
Theory
In 1911, a German sociolog ...
.
In 2005, the ANDA had a conflict with
Grabaciones y Doblajes Internacionales, which is in charge of the Spanish language-dubbing of the show ''
The Simpsons
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''. The conflict revolved around changing voice actors of the
Mexican
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version of the show.
Raymundo Capetillo
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Career
Capetillo started out ...
, Secretary of Work and Conflict promised to defend the cause of the voice actors.
[''Defiende la ANDA voces de Los Simpson'']
("ANDA defends the voices of ''The Simpsons'') '' El Universal'', January 11, 2005. Accessed on February 10, 2006
General Secretaries
Some of the most famous General Secretaries of the ANDA are:
*
Fernando Soler
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(1934-1935)
*
Mario Moreno Reyes
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely-accomplished Mexican comedian and is ce ...
"
Cantinflas
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely-accomplished Mexican comedian and is cele ...
" (1942-1944)
*
Jorge Negrete
Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (; 30 November 1911 – 5 December 1953) was a Mexican singer and actor.
Life and career
Negrete was born in the city of Guanajuato and had two brothers and three sisters; his father was a Mexican Army Colonel who ...
(1944-1947) (1949-1953)
*
Rodolfo Echeverría, brother of
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Luis Echeverría
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*
David Reynoso
David Reynoso (29 January 1926 – 9 June 1994) was a Mexican actor. He appeared in more than 170 films and television shows between 1955 and 1994. He was also a Deputy of The Seventh Federal Electoral District of the Federal District and die ...
(1977-1984)
*
Ignacio López Tarso
Ignacio López López (born 15 January 1925), known professionally as Ignacio López Tarso, is a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He has acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was g ...
(1984-1990)
*
Julio Alemán
Julio Méndez Alemán (November 29, 1933 – April 11, 2012) was a Mexican actor.Humberto Elizondo
Humberto Elizondo Kauffman (born June 19, 1947) is a Mexican actor of film and television, the son of Mexican diplomat Humberto Elizondo Alardine and Canadian actress Fannie Kauffman. Currently, he portrays Aquiles Trueba in '' Un refugio para el ...
(1994-1998)
*
Juan Imperio
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(1998-2002)(2002-2006)
*
Lilia Aragón
Lilia Aragón (born Lilia Isabel Aragón del Rivero, 22 September 1938 – 2 August 2021) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actress and politician. She was the Secretary of the National Association of Actors.
She also served as Deputy ...
(2006-2010)
*
Silvia Pinal
Silvia Pinal Hidalgo (born 12 September 1931) is a Mexican actress. She began her career in the theater, venturing into cinema in 1949. Her film work and popularity in her native country led her to work in Europe (Spain and Italy). Pinal achiev ...
(2010-2014)
*
Yolanda Cianí
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* Yolanda (name), a given name derived from the Greek ''Iolanthe''
Places
* Yolanda, California
* Yolanda Shrine, monument located at Barangay Anibong, Tacloban, Leyte
Film
* ''Yolanda'' (film), a 1924 film starring ...
(2014-2018)
See also
*
SAG-AFTRA
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–
United States
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actors guild
*
Associación Nacional de Intérpretes (ANDI) – Singers guild of Mexico
Footnotes
External links
BLADA
Actors' trade unions
Trade unions in Mexico
1936 establishments in Mexico
Trade unions established in 1936
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