Norma Angélica Ladrón de Guevara González (1937 – 30 December 1962) was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for her appearance on the film '' Tlayucan'' (1962), for which she posthumously won the Silver Goddess for Best Actress in 1963.

Career

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, and ''Tin Tan y las modelos'' (1960), starring

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, but she achieved stardom and gained international fame with her performance in

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-nominated film, '' Tlayucan'' (1962), with Julio Aldama, Andrés Soler and Noé Murayama. Another one of her most famous films is ''Ruletero a toda marcha'' (1962), in which she played a single mother named Carmen and co-starred with Eulalio González "El Piporro",

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and

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. On stage, she appeared in plays such as ''La tierra es redonda'' and ''Blum''. Her final film was ''La rabia por dentro'', co-starring English model June Wilkinson and

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Death

It was said that Guevara was extremely shy and that is the reason why her mother and her brother Víctor never noticed the emotional lack of control the actress was going through to the point of deciding to commit suicide. According to her brother's statements, the actress "was as cheerful and content as ever" the night that she "announced her intentions to bathe" and locked herself in the bathroom and filled the tub. "Thirty or forty minutes passed", and since the actress was still in the bathroom, her mother and her brother became worried and knocked on the door. When they did not get a reply, they forced the door open and found the actress unconscious in the tub. She had swallowed twenty-five sleeping pills. She was taken immediately to the Hospital de la Raza, where she remained in a coma until she died of cardiac arrest on 30 December 1962 at 10:30 am. She was interred the next day in the actors' section of Mexico City's

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. In 1963, at the 1st Silver Goddess Awards, the actress was posthumously honored with the Best Actress accolade for her role in ''Tlayucan''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ladron de Guevara, Norma Angelica Barbiturates-related deaths Drug-related suicides in Mexico Mexican film actresses Mexican stage actresses People with mood disorders 1962 deaths 1937 births 1962 suicides