Name Mimi Bechelani | Role Screenwriter | |
TV shows Teresa, El honorable Senor Valdez, El chofer, Mi rival Similar Ines Rodena, Jose Alberto Castro, Angelique Boyer, Margarita Magana, Manuel Landeta | ||
Mimí Bechelani is a Mexican screenwriter. She has spent her entire career writing for Televisa. Bechelani has also been a radio announcer, as well as a writer of poetry, novels, dramas, films, and theater scripts.
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Biography
Although her father died when she was young, Bechelani received a good education, studying painting, English, French, history and theater. She accompanied Amparo Villegas to New York to dub English films in Spanish. There, she also worked as a theater actress. In 1952, she worked at Radio Femenina. Bechelani worked as a school teacher. She married a doctor, but they had no children.
Bechelani has written extensively, creating more than 200 works for radio and television. She is best known for being the author of the 1959 telenovela, Teresa. It was made into a film in 1961 (starring Maricruz Olivier) and was remade into four telenovelas, three with that title.