Ada Carrasco

Ada Carrasco
Born(1912-09-14)14 September 1912
Mexico City, Mexico
Died5 April 1994(1994-04-05) (aged 81)
Mexico City, Mexico
Years active1952–1994

Ada Carrasco (14 September 1912 – 5 April 1994) was a Mexican film and television actress.

Early life

Carrasco was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Honorato Carrasco, an engineer, and the opera star Ada Navarrete.

Career

Carrasco started her career as an actress in 1952, and went on to make over 38 soap operas, including Los Ricos También Lloran, with Verónica Castro in 1979, Rosa Salvaje in 1987, De Frente al Sol in 1992, Más Allá del Puente in 1994, and finally, her last soap opera was made in 1994 in Marimar with Thalía.

She died of a heart attack on 5 April 1994.

She was also known for various film appearances from Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) where she acted opposite Clint Eastwood and Shirley Maclean, to OK Mister Pancho (1981) where she starred as a woman who travels to the United States with María Elena Velasco's character of La India María.

Personal life

Ada Carrasco's younger sister Queta Carrasco was also an actress as well as Ada's daughter Malena Doria. Ada Carrasco is the grandmother of Andrea Rodríguez and producer Magda Rodríguez, and the great-grandmother of the actress Andrea Escalona.

Selected filmography