The first Mexican actress Isela Vega died Tuesday night of cancer, at the age of 81, informed relatives on social media.
Born in Hermosillo, Sonora, on November 5, 1939, Isela Vega Durazo is an icon of sensuality in Mexican cinema, where she forged a fruitful and long career.
“Woman transgressor of our cinema; actress, screenwriter, producer and director of powerful stories. We say goodbye to you with sadness, also with great admiration and affection, Isela Vega. Follow with us the enormous strength that you always gave to our screens “, highlighted the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) on the social network Twitter.
Woman transgressor of our cinema; actress, screenwriter, producer and director of powerful stories.
We greeted you with sadness, also with great admiration and affection, Isela Vega.
Follow with us the enormous strength you always gave to our screens. pic.twitter.com/UPKxrraB0a
– IMCINE (@imcine)
March 10, 2021
The news of her death, which occurred in Mexico City, was announced by her relatives on social media and was confirmed by Televisa through her Twitter account, noting that “relatives confirm the unfortunate death of the ‘actress Isela Vega “.
Vega, the roles in “The Law of Herod” and “The Black Widow” gave him prizes Ariel, left a filmography of 130 productions between series and feature films.
Her most recent involvement in a film was in “Cindy the Queen”, while on TV she was part of “The House of Flowers”.
“If you see that you have spent more than 100 films, about 150, at set doing scenes, sequences, inventing, studying, all of that, is that you’ve spent half your life in fiction, ”he noted at the time.