Rosenda Monteros

Rosenda Monteros (born August 31, 1935) is a Mexican actress. She was born Rosa Méndez Leza in Veracruz and studied drama under Seki Sano.^[1]

To American audiences, she is best known for her role as Petra in The Magnificent Seven. She had a prolific film career north and south of the U.S.–Mexican border.

From 1955 to 1957, she was married to director Julio Bracho.^[2]

Partial filmography

• A Woman's Devotion (1956) as María
• Villa!! (1958) as Marianna
• Nazarin (1959) as La Prieta
• El Esqueleto de la señora Morales (1960)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960) as Petra
• Tiara Tahiti (1962) as Belle Annie
• The Mighty Jungle (1964) as Orica
• She (1965) as Ustane
• Valería (1965)
• Savage Pampas (1966) as Rucu
• The Face of Eve (1968) as Conchita
• Coleccionista de cadáveres, El (1970) as Valerie

External links

• Rosenda Monteros at the Internet Movie Database
• Monteros reads "Romanticismos," by Francisco González Léon

References