Otilia Larrañaga Villarreal (3 November 1931 – 6 October 2021) was a Mexican dancer and actress who participated in classic Mexican films during the

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and also on stage and television.

Biography

Larrañaga studied dance with her uncle Ignacio Larrañaga and later ballet with Lettie H. Carroll. From 1947 to 1950, she was a member of Carroll's dance group and participated in the seasons of the

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' National Opera in

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. A notable dancer by the time she was 15, she began her film career in the early 1950s with small roles in ''Secretaria particular'' (1952) and ''No te ofendas, Beatriz'' (1953). One of her first successes was her performance in the play ''Ángeles y payasos'' (1952), directed by Luz Alba at the Teatro Esperanza Iris. The theater critic Armando de María y Campos wrote that "the best performance rests in Otilia Larrañaga, as an actress and dancer, beautiful in figure and exquisite in feeling. Her future is splendid, whatever path she chooses". She met her first husband, singer and actor Antonio "Tony" Aguilar, at the

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station in 1952. Larrañaga and Aguilar performed together in the films ''Mi papá tuvo la culpa'' (1953) and ''Reventa de esclavas'' (1954). She obtained her first starring role in the film ''La flecha envenenada'' (1957) with Gastón Santos. In 1957, she received a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Youth Performance for the film ''Caras nuevas'' (1956). She married

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and after their divorce in 1968, she married her second husband, actor Rogelio Guerra, with whom she had a daughter named Hildegard. They divorced in 1974.

Filmography

* ''Secretaria particular'' * ''No te ofendas, Beatriz'' * ''Mi papá tuvo la culpa'' * '' The Price of Living'' (1954) * ''Reventa de esclavas'' * ''Maldita ciudad'' * ''Las viudas del cha-cha-cha'' * ''Caras nuevas'' * ''La flecha envenenada'' * ''La locura del rock and roll''

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Larranaga, Otilia 1931 births 2021 deaths Mexican film actresses Mexican female dancers Mexican television actresses Mexican stage actresses Mexican ballerinas 20th-century Mexican dancers 20th-century Mexican actresses Actresses from Mexico City