María Félix was a well-known Mexican actress and singer of her time, who had worked in the film industry for many years and had acted in several films with leading actors alongside renowned directors. She established herself as a film icon not only at home in Mexico, but throughout Europe and beyond before passing away in 2002 after suffering from heart disease.
Who is Maria Felix?
María Félix was born in 1914 on April 8, to be precise, in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico, and her full birth name was María de los Angeles Félix Güereña. Her family from Àlamos to Guadalajara, where she began her studies at the University of Guadalajara. Growing up, María’s beauty became very visible and she was even the beauty queen of the University of Guadalajara. After graduating, she began working as a secretary to a plastic surgeon.
It was by chance that she got into the role. She reportedly met director and director Fernando Palacios one fateful day on her way home from work. He asked her if she would like to perform but her response then showed that she was not ready. So Fernando had to convince her to start acting and allowed her to become a professional actress. María Félix eventually rose to fame for her role in the film Doña Bárbara where she was cast as La Doña in 1943 and the film was shot in Venezuela with Mexican and Venezuelan actors.
She has also featured in three films for Mexican directors like Emilio Fernández, Enamorada, Río Escondido and Maclovia. María has made film appearances all over the world in European countries such as Spain, Argentina, France and Italy. However, it was known that the Mexican film had declined the film offers that had come to her from Hollywood because she had never found a role that interested her among all the offers.
In addition to her acting career, María Félix is a model and singer who has served as a model for renowned painters and has several songs to her credit such as Por qué negar, Gotas de Amor, Cada Noche un Amor, Rival, Solamente Una Vez, Silencio, And now, I love her to death, Take care, among others.
Family: siblings
María was born and raised in Álamos to become the daughter of Bernardo Félix Flores, an army officer, and Josefina Güereña Rosas. María’s family was quite large since her parents had eleven other children. Josefina, of Peace, Pablo, Bernardo, Miguel, María de las Mercedes, Fernando, Victoria Eugenia, Ricardo, Benjamin and Ana María del Sacramento.
Little is known about his family life but it is said that he developed a very strong bond with his brother, Pablo, with whom his mother became uncomfortable and had to separate them by sending Pablo to a military college in Mexico.
Spouse, children
The pretty Mexican actress has married four different men in her lifetime. Her first husband was Enrique Álvarez Alatorre, who worked as a sales assistant in a cosmetics store. The two men had met at the University of Guadalajara during María’s time. The union was surrounded by a son, Enrique Álvarez Félix. However, the movie star and Enrique did not live happily ever after, as they officially divorced in 1937 and their son, who later became a popular actor like his mother, died in 1996.
María Félix married for the second time in 1945 to Agustín Lara, a Mexican writer, but the marriage ended just two years later. After her divorce from Lara, she moved on with her life and then fell head over heels for her former enemy turned friend, Jorge Negrete, a Mexican singer and actor. Jorge and María were married in 1953, but their marriage did not last long as Jorge died barely a year after their marriage.
Three years after Jorge’s death, she married for the fourth time in 1956 to Alexander Berger, a Franco-Romanian banker. The couple seemed happy together and María even became pregnant with Alexander, but lost the baby in a miscarriage while filming a movie in 1957. The couple had 18 years of happily married life until Alexander died following a lung cancer in 1974.
Death: How Did María Félix Die?
The unfortunate death of the beautiful Mexican actress happened on her date of birth in 2002, when she died in her sleep. Her burial ceremony was held in her hometown of Mexico and she was buried in her family’s burial site.
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