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Isela Vega

{{Short description|Mexican actress (1939–2021)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{family name hatnote|Vega|Durazo|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Isela Vega

| image = Isela Vega en 1974.jpg

| caption = Vega in 1974

| children =Arturo
Shaula

| partner = Alberto Vázquez, {{ill|Jorge Luke|es}}

| birth_name = Isela Vega Durazo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|11|5||df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|3|9|1939|11|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico

}}

Isela Vega Durazo (5 November 1939 – 9 March 2021) was a Mexican actress,[http://www2.esmas.com/entretenimiento/biografias/012362/isela-vega Televisa Espectáculos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111131914/http://www2.esmas.com/entretenimiento/biografias/012362/isela-vega |date=11 January 2020 }} (in Spanish) singer-songwriter,{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071249/soundtrack|title=Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - IMDb|accessdate=10 March 2021|via=www.imdb.com}} and filmmaker.

Career

In 1957, Vega was chosen as "Princess of the Carnival" in Hermosillo. Shortly afterwards, she began modeling. In 1960, Vega began her acting career, which continued until her death. In 1969 she released an album of her singing. Vega's most widely known role is that of Elita in Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). She also wrote the song, "Bennie's Song", which appears in the film. She was subsequently photographed nude for the July 1974 issue of Playboy magazine.

Vega won five Ariel Awards, including for La Viuda Negra (1977) Herod's Law (1999), and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (2017).{{cite news |title=Fallece Isela Vega a los 81 años; padecía cáncer |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/fallece-isela-vega-los-81-anos-padecia-cancer |access-date=10 March 2021 |work=El Universal |date=10 March 2021 |language=es}}

In the 1980s, Vega made her debut behind the camera by writing, producing and directing a number of films. She was called to sing the songs "Amanecí en tus brazos" and "El Siete Mares" in the 1986 film Gringo mojado. Overall, Vega participated in 150 movies.

Personal life

Vega was born and raised in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. She has a son named Arturo with singer Alberto Vázquez, with whom she had a short-lived troubled relationship, but never married; and a daughter, Shaula,{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891835/bio|title=Isela Vega|website=IMDb|accessdate=10 March 2021}} who is an actress and dancer, from her long lasting relationship with the actor {{ill|Jorge Luke|es}}.

Vega died of metastasis in Mexico City on March 9, 2021, at the age of 81.{{Cite web|url=https://en.mundohispanico.com/last-hour-mexican-actress-isela-vega-dies/|title=Last Hour: Mexican actress Isela Vega dies|date=10 March 2021|access-date=24 March 2021|archive-date=16 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316190104/https://en.mundohispanico.com/last-hour-mexican-actress-isela-vega-dies/|url-status=dead}}

Filmography as actress

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=Filmography as writer, director, producer=

  • 1980: Navajeros (producer)
  • 1982: Una gallina muy ponedora (producer)
  • 1986: Los amantes del señor de la noche (writer, producer, director)
  • 2018–2019: "Like La Leyenda"

Discography

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0891835}}
  • [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/12/10/index.php?section=opinion&article=a03a1cul Interview in La Jornada] {{in lang|es}}

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Category:1939 births

Category:2021 deaths

Category:Ariel Award winners

Category:20th-century Mexican actresses

Category:21st-century Mexican actresses

Category:Best Supporting Actress Ariel Award winners

Category:Mexican film actresses

Category:Mexican television actresses

Category:Peerless Records artists

Category:People from Hermosillo

Category:Deaths from cancer in Mexico

Category:Actresses from Sonora