Mercedes Pascual

Mercedes Pascual

She moved to Mexico at the age of nine, when her family had to leave Spain as a result of the Spanish Civil War, where she began attending ballet classes, participating in the Ballet Moderno de Bellas Artes and the Ballet de Opera de Bellas Artes. She later studied acting with maestro Seki Sano and at the Andrés Soler Theater Academy. Her debut as an actress was in the play La soga in 1952. The following year she became a Mexican citizen. She was the driving force and founder of the National Theater Company, and joined the stable cast when it was restructured in 2008; in 2012, she was distinguished as a Number One actress. She had an extensive career as an actress, participating in films such as Persíguelas y alcánzalas, El retrato de Anabella, Jóvenes delincuentes, Ángel de fuego, Novia que te vea (for which she was nominated for an Ariel) and Cilantro y perejil, among many others. In television she has participated in several telenovelas, including Mi esposa se divorcia, Maximiliano y Carlota, El manantial del milagro, Viviana, Cuna de lobos, Teresa, Muchachitas, Retrato de familia and El candidato. She also acted in plays such as Miércoles de ceniza, Las criadas and El vestidor. Mercedes married diplomat Víctor Flores Olea with whom she had her only daughter, actress Mercedes Olea. She was previously married to actor Claudio Brook, with whom she had her daughter Claudia Brook. Her last participation was in the TV Azteca soap opera Emperatriz, where she played Doña Leonor Bustamante. At the age of nine she began attending ballet classes, "I started in the art because I saw some great ballet artists on a ship going from Finland to I don't know where. I saw them doing their warm-up and they fascinated me, I put myself in a little corner to do the same steps they did and they told me: come here to the bar and do it with us. At the age of 12. Mercedes Pascual entered dance classes with a Russian teacher Zakharov, later with Nina Shestakova and Sergio Unger. The actress did not give up professional dance until she was 25 years old and even then, she continued taking dance classes because she was certain that "many things could be translated from dance to theater". She received a scholarship from the French government to study drama in Paris, France, from 1960 to 1961 with Tania Balachova and mime with Jacques Lecoq. He was a founding member of the Université du Théâtre des Nations created in Paris in 1960. After her studies in France, she was called by Benito Coquet, Ignacio Retes and José Solé to join the Social Security Company from 1960 to 1964, The actress received a scholarship from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes for a postgraduate course in drama in London, England, at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with Peter Hall and Liziz Picks in 1970. This scholarship was possible thanks to the support of Héctor Azar and the architect Luis Ortiz Macedo, director of INBA at the time.

  • Title: Mercedes Pascual
  • Popularity: 3.771
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-09-25
  • Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
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Mercedes Pascual Movies

  • 1992
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    Matrimonio y mortaja

    Matrimonio y mortaja

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1954
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    El valor de vivir

    El valor de vivir

    5 1954 HD

    Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.

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  • 1967
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    Los años verdes

    Los años verdes

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1986
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    I Love You Catalina

    I Love You Catalina

    5 1986 HD

    An unseen person enters a taxi late at night. Suddenly the taxi driver is stabbed with a large metal knitting needle. From there we meet our female...

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  • 1969
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    Persiguelas y... alcanzalas

    Persiguelas y... alcanzalas

    5 1969 HD

    After a millionaire playboy is murdered, police enlist a look-alike of the victim to impersonate him in a sting operation.

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  • 1987
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    Una adorable familia

    Una adorable familia

    5 1987 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1991
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    Angel of Fire

    Angel of Fire

    5.9 1991 HD

    The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a...

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  • 1991
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    Jóvenes delincuentes

    Jóvenes delincuentes

    5 1991 HD

    A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.

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  • 1988
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    Vieja moralidad

    Vieja moralidad

    5 1988 HD

    The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.

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  • 1988
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    A la misma hora

    A la misma hora

    5 1988 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1994
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    Like a Bride

    Like a Bride

    4.8 1994 HD

    Two Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s

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  • 2006
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    A Good Death Beats a Dull Life

    A Good Death Beats a Dull Life

    5.4 2006 HD

    The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The...

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  • 1996
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    Recipes to Stay Together

    Recipes to Stay Together

    5.6 1996 HD

    "Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question...

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  • 1999
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    La paloma de Marsella

    La paloma de Marsella

    5 1999 HD

    Amelia is an old retired prostitute who lives at an asylum, where she decides to enter a T.V. contest.

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  • 1974
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    El juicio de Martín Cortés

    El juicio de Martín Cortés

    5 1974 HD

    A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of...

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  • 1960
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    The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

    The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

    7.94 1960 HD

    A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

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  • 1963
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    Las Troyanas

    Las Troyanas

    6 1963 HD

    Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.

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  • 2016
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    Tamara and the Ladybug

    Tamara and the Ladybug

    5.6 2016 HD

    Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.

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  • 1970
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    The Marked Hour

    The Marked Hour

    7.8 1970 HD

    La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone....

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  • 2011
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    Emperatriz

    Emperatriz

    8.2 2011 HD

    Emperatriz is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco for Azteca. It stars Gabriela Spanic as the title character, while Bernie Paz as the...

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