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Serrano in El zurdo (1965) |
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| Born | Irma Cielo Consuelo Serrano Castro Domínguez December 9, 1933 Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, senator |
| Years active | 1961-2005 |
Irma Serrano (born December 9, 1933) is a Mexican actress of film, television, and theater; and also a singer, screenwriter and politician.[1][2] Thanks to her beauty, her figure and her way of being controversial, coming out of the standards of the time, Serrano managed to attract the attention of directors and producers, so they began to call her to act in different movies.[1]
In her later years, she was the center for multiple scandals and controversies.[3] She has appeared in celebrity gossip magazines and television shows because of her political career as senator of her home state of Chiapas from 1994 to 1997.[1]
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Irma was born Irma Cielo Consuelo Serrano Castro Domínguez to an affluent rancher and a woman of a tough attitude, in Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico.[1] According to her own autobiography she was kidnapped (actually ran away) at the age of 13 or 14. A politician whisked her away from her small hometown in southern Chiapas where she was born and raised.
Her first break came in Santo contra los zombies (1962), where she acted along with the actor-wrestler sensation, Santo. In the same year she had a small role in El extra, starring Cantinflas and Alma Delia Fuentes, where she portrayed a movie extra. By 1964, she had a musical guest spot in the film Gabino Barrera, and in it she sang the eponymous song and reprised the role for the film's sequels El hijo de Gabino Barrera (1965) and La venganza de Gabino Barrera (1971) all three films starring Antonio Aguilar. In the film El zurdo (1965) Serrano was given a decent acting role playing "Catalina", a bar singer who participates in a plan to rob notorious left-handed gun slinger Pedro "El zurdo" portrayed by Rodolfo de Anda.
She appeared with Emilio Fernández and Eric del Castillo in Los malvados in 1966. It is not until 1972 when she stars in a title role and is featured as a screenwriter in La Martina. In 1973 she earns the nickname "La Tigresa" or "the tigress" after she starred in the film of the same name.
She was ordered jailed by the First Lady of Mexico in 1967 when she dared to serenade then Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in Los Pinos, Mexico's official Presidential residence. It was rumored they had a short lived romantic affair.[3] Both never confirmed it, until 1998 when she defended the late president when she said that she lived with him, and that she never ordered him to attack the students of the massacre of Tlatelolco, which happened in 1968.[1]
She lives in palatial residences in Mexico City, all furnished with art masterpieces from around the world that she collected and accumulated during her singing, acting and political careers.
In 1994, she ran for Senator from her home state of Chiapas and won.[3]
On March 25, 2009 she was arrested in her home State of Chiapas and taken into custody to Mexico City's federal women penitentiary for supposed death threats and branding a gun 3 years earlier to an ex-tenant of one of her properties.[4]
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