Aurora Alvarado

Aurora Alvarado
Born
Aurora Alvarado de la Torre

(1940-01-11) 11 January 1940
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationActress
Years active1959–2004

Aurora Alvarado de la Torre (born 11 January 1940), known professionally as Aurora Alvarado, is a Mexican actress.

Early life

Aurora Alvarado de la Torre was born on 11 January 1940 in Mexico City, daughter of actor Alfonso Alvarado and Estela de la Torre.[1]

In 1954, she followed her dad's footsteps and pursued an acting career, debuting as an actress in "Teatro Cucurucho", followed by appearances in the "Teatro Fantástico de "Cachirulo" in 1955, where she remained for 20 years portraying "Princesa de los Cuentos" (Spanish for "Princess of Fairy Tales"). Three years later, she graduated as a primary education teacher from the Benemérita Escuela Nacional de Maestros.[1]

Film and television career

After working on theater and radio dramas till the end of the 1950s, she made her debut in cinema with the films Las señoritas Vivanco and México nunca duerme from 1959.[2] Her later films included El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco (1961), sequel to Las señoritas Vivanco, Las leandras (1961), En cada feria un amor (1961), Mañana serán hombres (1961), La marca del muerto (1961), Jóvenes y Bellas (1962), Los falsos héroes (1962), Los sheriffs de la frontera (1965), Juan Pistolas (1966) and El salario de la muerte (1993), her last film.[3]

Her most outstanding work in film was with the horror film franchise of Nostradamus, which compassed the films La maldición de Nostradamus (1961), Nostradamus y el destructor de monstruos (1962), Nostradamus, el genio de las tinieblas (1962) and La sangre de Nostradamus (1962).[4]

Joining television in the early 1960s, she worked on various telenovelas, such as No basta ser médico (1961), La sospecha (1961), Culpas ajenas (1961), La herencia (1962), La culpa de los padres (1963), El dolor de amar (1966), Corona de lágrimas (1965–1966), Detrás del muro (1967), Mariana (1968), Honor y orgullo (1969), La recogida (1971) and Marina (1974).[5]

In 1979, while she was recording radionovelas, she was invited to give life to Mafafa Musguito, a preschool character for the kids TV program Odisea Burbujas, with which she gain notoriety and remained as her most important acting work.[1][2] From 1984 to 1985, she portrayed another kids character, Vaca Clarisa, in the educational TV show El tesoro del saber. She retired from acting in 2004, after appearing in the episode "Casino... Tengo dinero" of the comedic series Hospital El paisa.[6][7]

Filmography

Film

  • Las señoritas Vivanco (1959)
  • México nunca duerme (1959)
  • El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco (1961)
  • Las leandras (1961)
  • En cada feria un amor (1961)
  • Mañana serán hombres (1961)
  • La maldición de Nostradamus (1961)
  • La marca del muerto (1961)
  • Nostradamus y el destructor de monstruos (1962)
  • Jóvenes y Bellas (1962)
  • Los falsos héroes (1962)
  • Nostradamus, el genio de las tinieblas (1962)
  • La sangre de Nostradamus (1962)
  • Los sheriffs de la frontera (1965)
  • Juan Pistolas (1966)
  • El salario de la muerte (1993)

Television

References

  1. ^ a b c "ENTREVISTA A AURORA ALVARADO, ACTRIZ". Poder Edomex (in Mexican Spanish). 14 October 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Bella actriz que debutó con Sara García triunfó en Odisea Burbujas con éste personaje". El Heraldo de México (in Mexican Spanish). 28 November 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  3. ^ "Aurora Alvarado". Filmaffinity (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Aurora Alvarado". MUBI (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Aurora Alvarado : Películas y series, filmografía completa". Palomitacas (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  6. ^ "Intensa vida llevaba elenco de Odisea Burbujas". El Heraldo de México (in Mexican Spanish). 20 September 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  7. ^ "¿Qué fue de los otros personajes de Odisea Burbujas?". El Sol de México (in Mexican Spanish). 18 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
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