66 Facts About Silvia Pinal

Silvia Pinal began her career in theatre before venturing into cinema in 1949.

Silvia Pinal was considered "the last diva" of the Golden Age of Mexican film.

Silvia Pinal Hidalgo was born in Guaymas, Sonora, on 12September 1931.

Silvia Pinal's parents were Maria Luisa Hidalgo Aguilar and Moises Pasquel.

Silvia Pinal's father did not acknowledge Pinal as his child, and she did not know him until she was 11 years old.

Silvia Pinal spent her first years behind the counter of a seafood restaurant near XEW, where her mother worked.

Silvia Pinal had three daughters from a previous marriage: Mercedes, Beatriz and Eugenia.

Luis Silvia Pinal held several public positions, including serving as the municipal president of Tequisquiapan, Queretaro.

Silvia Pinal had an interest in show business since she was a child.

Silvia Pinal studied first at Pestalozzi College in Cuernavaca and then at the Washington Institute in Mexico City.

Silvia Pinal went to study opera and began preparing by taking classes, first with a private teacher and then with Professor Reyes Retana.

At the music academy, Silvia Pinal auditioned for a role in the opera La Traviata.

Silvia Pinal debuted as an extra in a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Silvia Pinal continued working in the advertising department of a pharmaceutical products firm.

Silvia Pinal debuted in the comedy Dos pesos la dejada.

At the radio station, Silvia Pinal met publicists who invited her to join an experimental company.

The director of this work was the Cuban-Mexican actor and director Rafael Banquells, with whom Silvia Pinal began an employment relationship and a close friendship that led to romance.

Laverne chose Silvia Pinal to participate in a montage with the company of the Ideal Theater, directed by the Spanish actress Isabelita Blanch.

Silvia Pinal's first starring role was in Un sueno de cristal.

Just fifteen days after she debuted in the theater, Silvia Pinal made her debut in the cinema with a brief role in Bamba, starring Carmen Montejo and directed by Miguel Contreras Torres.

Contreras Torres was a demanding, strict director who made Silvia Pinal suffer for her inexperience.

Silvia Pinal met and worked for the first time with the actor and singer Pedro Infante in the film La mujer que yo perdi.

Silvia Pinal won her first Silver Ariel as a supporting actress for her performance in the film Un rincon cerca del cielo, where she worked again with Infante.

In 1953, Silvia Pinal got her first starring roles in the films Reventa de esclavas and Yo soy muy macho.

Silvia Pinal gained success and recognition in 1954 after appearing in the film Un extrano en la escalera, directed by Tulio Demicheli, where she starred alongside Arturo de Cordova.

Silvia Pinal participated in Historia de un abrigo de mink, a film in which Silvia Pinal co-starred with actresses Maria Elena Marques, Columba Dominguez and Irasema Dilian.

Silvia Pinal worked again with Pedro Infante as his co-star in the celebrated comedy El inocente.

Silvia Pinal starred in several films by Demicheli, including Locura pasional, which would bring her first Silver Ariel Award as best actress.

Silvia Pinal's second was thanks to her role in the film La dulce enemiga, directed by Davison.

In 1956, Silvia Pinal starred in Una cita de amor, where she worked under the direction of Emilio Fernandez.

Under the direction of Jose Maria Forque, Silvia Pinal starred in the Spanish film Maribel y la extrana familia.

Silvia Pinal had her first contact with Luis Bunuel through Mexican actor Ernesto Alonso, with the firm intention of starring in the film version of Perez Galdos's novel Tristana in the 1950s.

Silvia Pinal was on the verge of starring with Bunuel in the film Diary of a Chambermaid in France.

Silvia Pinal learned French and was willing to receive no pay for her role.

Silvia Pinal was going to shoot with Bunuel in Spain on Divinas palabras, but there were problems obtaining a copyright for the film.

Years later, Silvia Pinal finally shot the movie in Mexico with Juan Ibanez, featuring a nude scene.

Silvia Pinal appeared in the Franco-Italian-Mexican co-production Guns for San Sebastian, along with Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson.

Between the late 1960s and early 1970s, Silvia Pinal mostly made comedy films directed by Rene Cardona Jr.

In 1976, Silvia Pinal starred in Las mariposas disecadas, a psychological suspense thriller.

Silvia Pinal returned in 1992 with the movie Modelo Antiguo, directed by Raul Araiza.

Silvia Pinal made her theatrical debut at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

In 1954, Silvia Pinal participated in the play La Sed with Ernesto Alonso and the Argentinean actor Pedro Lopez Lagar.

In 1957 Silvia Pinal staged the play Desnudate, Lucrecia, in Chile, with Jorge Mistral, who eventually became a star of Mexican cinema.

In 1958, Silvia Pinal was responsible for producing Mexico's first musical comedy, Bells Are Ringing, directed by Luis de Llano Palmer.

Under his direction, Silvia Pinal starred in the work Vidas privadas.

Thanks to her success, Silvia Pinal starred in three productions.

In 1983, Silvia Pinal starred in and produced the Mexican montage of the work La senorita de Tacna, based on the work of Mario Vargas Llosa.

In 1992, Silvia Pinal acquired the former Cine Versailles, located in Colonia Juarez in Mexico City, and turned it into her second theater, the Diego Rivera Theater.

Silvia Pinal returned to the theater in 2005 with the play Debiera haber obispas, She participated in productions such as Adorables enemigas and Amor, dolor y lo que traia puesto.

Silvia Pinal produced the Mexican versions of the musicals A Chorus Line, Cats and La Cage aux Folles.

Silvia Pinal dabbled in television since its appearance in Mexico in the early 1950s.

Later, she participated in numerous telecasts by Luis de Llano Palmer, where Silvia Pinal introduced playback on Mexican television.

When Silvia Pinal married the actor and singer Enrique Guzman, both produced and starred in the variety show Silvia Pinal y Enrique, which ran for four years.

In 1968, Silvia Pinal debuted in telenovelas with the historical production Los Caudillos, inspired by the Mexican War of Independence.

Silvia Pinal produced the melodramas Cuando los hijos se van and Tiempo de Amar.

In 2009, Silvia Pinal performed in an episode of the series Mujeres asesinas.

Silvia Pinal became involved in politics after her fourth marriage, to the politician Tulio Hernandez Gomez, governor of Tlaxcala.

Between 1982 and 1987, Silvia Pinal was the first lady of that state.

Since the 1950s, Silvia Pinal actively participated in the trade union movement representing her country's actors.

Silvia Pinal had legal problems in 2000 due to conflicts with her management as the president of the Association of Theater Producers in the early 1990s.

Silvia Pinal revealed on numerous occasions that Alatriste was the love of her life, a husband with whom she could have stayed forever.

Silvia Pinal met Alatriste at a meeting at Ernesto Alonso's house when he was about to divorce actress Ariadne Welter.

The couple married in 1982, and it was through Hernandez that Silvia Pinal entered the world of politics.

In 1954, when filming Un extrano en la escalera, Silvia Pinal fell in love with her co-star, Arturo de Cordova.

In November 2024, Silvia Pinal was hospitalized in Tlalpan, Mexico City, for a urinary tract infection.

Silvia Pinal's cremated ashes were placed at her family crypt, in the Panteon Jardin cemetery in San Angel.