Occupation Actress, director Name Beatriz Sheridan | Role Actress | |
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Full Name Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough Awards Ariel Award for Best Actress, Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress Movies and TV shows Contra viento y marea, Gaby: A True Story, Pedro Paramo Similar People Died 12 July 2005 (aged 82) Mexico City, México Nationality Mexican | ||
Beatriz sheridan biografia
Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough, better known as Beatriz Sheridan (25 June 1934 – 30 April 2006) was a Mexican actress and director. Pioneer of the Mexican telenovelas and great figure of the Mexican theater of the XX century. She was also a teacher of dramatic technique for television and directed great stars of melodrama.
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- Beatriz sheridan biografia
- Beatriz sheridan
- Early life
- Theater
- Films
- Television
- Director
- Death
- Filmography
- References
Beatriz sheridan
Early life
Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough was born on June 25, 1934 in Mexico City, Mexico. Of British mother and Mexican father. She had 8 brothers. She studied philosophy and letters at the Missouri University in the United States. Back in Mexico, she studied at Mexico City College. She was a distinguished student of the famous teacher of Japanese origin Seki Sano, of whom she even became an assistant in the direction of some theatrical montages.
Theater
From 1959, and for four years, Sheridan participated as an actress and protagonist in the stage experiences, also precursors of the opening of the current Mexican theater. She worked with Alejandro Jodorowsky in montages like The lesson, Penelope, The sonata of the specters, Fando y Lis and The opera of Order, among others. Since 1963, she was part of numerous Mexican classical theater ensembles. Of her works they emphasize The Trojan Women (1963), directed by Jose Solé, La moza del cántaro (1964), directed by Jose Luis Ibáñez, Los secuestradores de Altona (1965), directed by Rafael López Miarnau, Strange interlude, directed by Xavier Rojas, Doce y una trece, by Juan José Gurrola, Mudarse por mejorarse (1966), by José Luis Ibáñez,Diálogo entre el amor y un viejo (1966), also by Ibáñez, Por Lucrecia, directed by Héctor Gómez, La noche de los asesinos directed by Juan José Gurrola, A Streetcar Named Desire (1968), directed by Dimitro Sarrás and Ah, los días felices(1977) by Manuel Montoro. In 1980 she performed what would probably be his most remembered performance in the theater: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, by RW Fassbinder, directed by Nancy Cárdenas. For her impressive performance, even the poetess Pita Amor wrote for her an essay entitled The Bitter Tears of Beatriz Sheridan.
She was also a precursor and director of a modality that frequents but the very good and gifted actors: the live reading of poetry and literature. For the reading of his poems, Octavio Paz demanded on all the presence of Sheridan.
Films
Sheridan made her film debut in 1963 in the film version of Euripides' The Trojan Women, directed by Sergio Véjar and opposite Ofelia Guilmáin, Mercedes Pascual and other great actresses. In 1965 participated in the film Tajimara, of Juan Jose Gurrola, with Pilar Pellicer and Claudio Obregón. In 1967 participated in the film Pedro Páramo, directed by Carlos Velo, next to John Gavin and Ignacio López Tarso. In 1969 she was part of the cast of Arturo Ripstein's Los recuerdos del porvenir. In 1980 she appeared in the film Misterio, by Marcela Fernández, for which she won the Silver Ariel Award from the Mexican Film Academy in the category of Best Female Co-Performance.
Her most notable cinematic achievement is likely her role in "Confidencias" (1983), a film directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and based on the novel "Pétalos perennes" by Luis Zapata, where she starred opposite María Rojo. For her performance in this film, she received the Silver Ariel Award for Best Actress.
Her last film work was in the award-winning film Gaby: A True Story, by Luis Mandoki, starring Norma Aleandro and Liv Ullmann.
Television
Sheridan was a pioneer of Mexican telenovelas. Participated in Senda prohibida the first melodrama produced in Mexico. From that moment she participated in numerous television productions. Of her most outstanding works like actress in television are La constitución (1970), carried out by Maria Félix and in where sheinterpreted the historical personage of Carmen Serdán; La venganza (1977), next to Helena Rojo and Gabriel y Gabriela (1982), with Ana Martin. She also deserves her participation in the telenovelas Vivir un poco (1985), with Angélica Aragón, Alondra (1995), with Ana Colchero and Gonzalo Vega and Amor real (2003), with Adela Noriega.
Her last work as an actress was in the telenovela Contra viento y marea (2005), where she formed a famous dumbbell with the actress Azela Robinson.
Director
In the last two decades of her life, Beatriz Sheridan stood out as the director of numerous Mexican melodramas. She was the creator of a unique technique in the television that marked to a great amount of Mexican actors. Her first opportunity as a director was given by famed Chilean producer Valentín Pimstein in the telenovela Vivir un poco, where she served as director of dialogues. Her first project as a director was in the telenovela La indomable (1987), produced by Julissa. Probably her most remembered work as a director is the famous television trilogy known as La Trilogía de las Marías, starring singer Thalía: María Mercedes (1992), Marimar (1994) and María la del barrio (1995). These telenovelas had a huge international success.
Death
Beatriz Sheridan died on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 4:00 am in her apartment in the Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec in Mexico City. because of a heart attack at 71 years of age. Her ashes were scattered in the Caribbean Sea, facing the beaches of Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico, one of the actress's favorite places where she owned a house.