Career
She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949. She started her career as extra in the successful film Louisiana Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in Mexican films such as, Santa (second souns version, 1943), Bugambilia (1944, with Dolores del Río), Amok (1945, with María Félix), and the success films Los olvidados (1949, directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad (1955).
In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage Louisiana Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortéson