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Angélica Espinoza Stransky, best known as Angélica Aragón (Spanish pronunciation: [aŋˈxelika aɾaˈɣon]; born July 11, 1953) is a Mexican stage, film and telenovelas actress. She is the daughter of Mexican composer José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla". She is known for her performances in several Mexican and American film productions like Dune (1984), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999), El crimen del padre Amaro (2002), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) and Bella (2006), among others. She also starred the classic Mexican telenovelas Vivir un poco (1985) and Mirada de Mujer (1997).
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Angélica Espinoza Stransky, best known as Angélica Aragón (Spanish pronunciation: [aŋˈxelika aɾaˈɣon]; born July 11, 1953) is a Mexican stage, film and telenovelas actress. She is the daughter of Mexican composer José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla". She is known for her performances in several Mexican and American film productions like Dune (1984), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999), El crimen del padre Amaro (2002), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) and Bella (2006), among others. She also starred the classic Mexican telenovelas Vivir un poco (1985) and Mirada de Mujer (1997).
Angelica Espinosa Stransky is the daughter of the Mexican composer José Angel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla" and Sonia Stranksy. She had a younger sister named Vindya (died in 2008). By mother's side, has two half brothers, John and Jacqueline. Her parents divorced when Angelica was a child. She spent her childhood between television and film forums with her father. She began her acting career in various projects of student theater. She realized her first stage work in 1970 in the Festival Cervantino. In 1971, she made a small role in the Mexican telenovela El amor tiene cara de mujer. She also participated as an extra in the film The Holy Mountain, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973). Eventually she emigrated to England, where she studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She also lived in India with her then husband, studying drama at The National Dance Academy and in the Kerala Kelandam Dance School.
Returning to Mexico in 1980, Aragón integrates to the Mexican telenovelas of Televisa, by the hand of the producer Valentín Pimstein, whom she knows through the director of Greek origin Dimitrio Sarrás. She started with a small role in the telenovela Sandra y Paulina starring Jacqueline Andere. In 1981 she appears in El hogar que yo robé, with Angélica María. In 1982 she plays the antagonistic role in Vanessa (1982), with Lucía Méndez; In 1983 she participates in the children telenovela Chispita (1983), with the singer Lucero. Another of her first telenovelas where La fiera (1984) and Principessa (1984).
In 1985, Pimstein gives her the principal role of the classic telenovela Vivir un poco, first Mexican version of the novel La madrastra written by the Chilean writer Arturo Moya Grau. Her interpretation of the story's heroine gave her first big hit and one of the most outstanding of her career. Her increasingly involvement in the film projects, cause her to return to television until 1989 with the telenovela La casa al final de la calle, directed by Jorge Fons.
In 1990, Aragón starring in two television productions: Días sin luna (where she plays a woman with a terminal illness) and En carne propia. In 1992, Aragón plays the role of "Chole", a Zapotec Indian woman in the telenovela De frente al Sol and in its sequel Mas allá del puente (1993). In 1996, she participates in Cañaveral de Pasiones. This will be the last soap opera to date by Angelica in Televisa.
In 1997, the company Argos Comunicación, offers to Aragón the starring role in the Mexican adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Señora Isabel (by Bernardo Romero Pereiro) entitled Mirada de Mujer, in TV Azteca. Her rendition of "Maria Ines Dominguez of San Millán ', a mature woman in love with a man 20 years younger, brings the greatest success of her television career in a television project that is breaking ground in Mexico at the time.
Following the success of Mirada de Muujer, Angelica made only sporadic appearances on television. She returning with a starring role in 2000 on the soap opera Todo por amor, the Mexican version of the Colombian telenovela La madre. In 2003, she returns to television for the second part of Mirada de mujer: Mirada de mujer: El regreso. Although the telenovela captures good hearing, fails, however, exceed the success of the first part. In 2005, Angelica performs her latest work in television in the mini-serie Ni una vez más. She also directs some episodes of the TV Azteca program Lo que callamos las mujeres. In 2011 Angelica returns to television with a small role in the television series A corazón abierto, Mexican version of the American series Grey's Anatomy.
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