Known For
Acting
Born
May 26, 1925
Died
Feb 25, 2013
Place of Birth
Pinar del Río, Cuba
Credits
90 titles
Carmen Montejo
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.
Known For
Filmography
Love Without Makeup
Verónica Vda. de Velázquez
Las Ladrilleras
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Self
The Faces of the Moon
Mariana Toscano
Corazones rotos
Adventures in Time
Margarita Rosales de Flores
Mimí Derba
Self
The Magic Hour
Friends 4 Ever
Doña Julia Ruvalcaba vda. de Vidal
Serafín
Gigi (voz)
Te Sigo Amando
Paula Garza Vda. de Torres-Quintero
Mágica juventud
Leonor Jiménez Vda. de Retana/Pepita
La Casa Que Arde de Noche
Celia
Tres generaciones
Director
Den of Wolves
Esperanza Mandujano
El Engaño
Selene
Juana Iris
María Luisa
¡Mamá, soy Paquito!
Mrs. Falcon
Ni Chana Ni Juana
The Death of a Stallion
The Hex
Emilia
El Maleficio
Doña Emilia González Vda. de Castellanos
Burdel
Madre de Juan
In the Storm
Doña Toña
El Bronco
The Great Victory
Corrupción oficial
En la trampa
Laura
Los hijos de Sanchez
The Children of Sanchez
Aunt Guadalupe
Prisión de mujeres
Marta/ La Macabra
Dinastía de la muerte
Mother
Resigned for Reasons of Health
María
El Rey
Coronation
Doña Elisa - Abuela
Paloma
Gloria Nava
Omen
Doña Agueda
The Prophet Mimi
Magdalena, prostituta vecina
The Cubs
Mrs. Cuéllar
Magdalena’s True Vocation
Zoyla
Doña Macabra
Demetria
The Crazy Virgins
Elena Guardiola
They Call Him Marcado
Remedios
Perverse Doll
Tía Jenny
Memories of the Future
Adventures of Juliancito
Tía Claudia
Sor Ye-yé
Madre superiora
The Adolescents
La recta final
Martha Maretti
El río de las ánimas