Silvia Pasquel

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name = Silvia Pasquel


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Silvia Pasquel (born Silvia Banquells Pinal on October 13, 1949 in Guaymas, Sonora) is a Mexican actress.

Biography

Pasquel was born into a show business family: her father, Rafael Banquells, was also a famous Cuban-born actor and director. Her mother is Silvia Pinal, a very well known actress across Latin America and Spain. She chose the artistic last name "Pasquel" as a mixture of her father and mother's last names.

Pasquel's siblings are also famous: her sisters are actresses Viridiana Alatriste and Rocio Banquells, and singer Alejandra Guzman. Her brother, Enrique Guzman Jr., is a musician. Both Alejandra and Enrique Guzman Jr. were a product of her mother's second marriage, to Mexican teen idol Enrique Guzman. Viridiana Alatriste died as a consequence of a car accident.

Pasquel has been married twice. And when she first married she was 16 as her mother wanted her to get married a virgin. Her daughter, Stephanie Salas, is also a famous telenovela actress and aspiring singer in Mexico. Her grand-daughter, Michelle Salas, is Luis Miguel's daughter. In an interview she said that because of the age difference between her brother and sisters she was more motherly to them than sisterly.

Career

1960s

At the age of nineteen, Pasquel did her first movie, "El Despertar del Lobo" ("The Wolf's Awakening"). That movie was made in 1968, the year in which Pasquel became very famous in Mexico. She followed her first film with her telenovela debut, in "Los Inconformes" ("The Uncomforted Ones").

In 1969, she took part in a movie about wrestling, starring alongside Santo and his wrestling enemy, Blue Demon, in "Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida" ("Santo versus Blue Demon at the Atlantida"). She also appeared in two other films in 1969, "Una Mujer Honesta" ("An Honest Woman") and "La Casa del Farol Rojo" ("The Redlight House").

1970s

The decade of the 1970s was a very busy one for Pasquel, as she starred in multiple films, soap operas, and even in magazine soaps, which were popular in Latin America then. In 1970, she starred in "Me he de Comer esa Tuna" ("I Will eat That Prickly Pear"), "La Cruz de Mariza Cruzes" ("Mariza Cruzes' Cross") and in "El Mariachi", the only telenovela she did that year.

In 1971, she played "Gianna Donatti" in the telenovela "Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse" ("Italian Girl Coming to Get Married") with Angélica María. That soap opera was a major hit, and Pasquel followed her work there with another telenovela, "La Recogida" ("The Step-Daughter"). Her one movie in 1971 was "Secreto de Confesion" ("Confession Secret"). 1972 proved to be a relatively easy year for Pasquel, whose fame had already spread to the rest of Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States. She participated in only one movie and no soap operas. Her movie that year was named "Cinco Mil Dolares de Recompensa" ("Five Thousand dollars Reward").

She participated alongside Chabelo, a very popular children's actor of the era, in 1973's "Chabelo y Pepito contra los Monstruos" ("Chabelo and Pepito Against Monsters"). This was followed by another telenovela, "El Amor Tiene Cara de Mujer" ("Love has a Woman's Face"). She finished 1973 playing "Maritza" in "Mi Rival".

Pasquel did two soap operas in 1974, each of which proved to be important in her career: in "Ha LLegado una Intrusa" ("An Intruder has Arrived", remade during the 1990s as "La Usurpadora"), she played two roles in the same drama for the first time in her career, acting as twins "Veronina and Hilda Moreno". "Mundo de Juguete" ("Toy World"), meanwhile, became one of the most successful Mexican telenovelas of the era.

After "El Milagro de Vivir", a 1975 soap opera, Pasquel began slowing her on screen work rate, and she took 1976 off to return in 1977, with another soap opera, named "Humillados y Ofendidos" ("Humiliated and Offended"). Once again, she took a full year off the screens in 1978 and returned in 1979 with a movie named "Johnny Chicano" and a soap named "J.J. Juez" ("J.J. Judge").

1980s

By the 1980s, Pasquel was already a family woman, a fact which contributed to a further slowdown of her screen career. She participated in 1980's "Al Rojo Vivo" (loosely translated to "Very Red"), in 1982's "El Amor Nunca Muere" ("Love Never Dies"), 1983's "Cuando los Hijos se Van" ("When Children Leave"), and 1987's "Los Años Perdidos" ("The Lost Years").

She took off three more years after that, returning in 1990 to participate in one episode of the popular television show, Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real, which is hosted by her mother. The chapter she appeared in was based on a real life story of a rape victim. Soon after, she made another telenovela, "Dias sin Luna" ("Days Without a Moon"). Her return to soap operas was followed by her return to film, with two movies made in 1991: "Politico por Error" ("Politician by Mistake") and "Asalto" ("Robbery").

1990s

In 1990, a teen-oriented soap opera, Alcanzar una estrella" ("Reaching a Star"), with Eduardo Capetillo, had become a major hit on Mexican television. Pasquel acted in that production's 1991 sequel, "Alcanzar una estrella II", where she acted alongside Capetillo, Sasha Sokol and a budding Puerto Rican star named Ricky Martin.

She followed that with 1993's "Las Secretas Intenciones" ("Secret Intentions"). and 1995's comedy film, "El Superman....Dilon Dos" ("The Super....lacy one, Part Two"). In 1996, she participated in "Para Toda la Vida" ("Forever"), which was another telenovela. She returned once again in 1998's "Huracan", where she played "Caridad".

2000s

She starred as "Zulema" in 2000's "Mi Destino Eres Tu" ("You Are my Destiny").

In 2001, she participated in another major Mexican telenovela hit, "El Manantial" ("The Cascade"). That same year, she worked as "Silvia" in "Aventuras en el Tiempo" ("Time Adventures"). During 2002, she participated in a very large number of episodes of "Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real".

Her latest screen work, as of 2005, has been 2004's "Amarte es mi Pecado" ("My Sin is Loving You").

She is currently starring in the novella "Yo amo a Juan Querendón".

External links

* [http://www.alma-latina.net/01actresses/s/silvia_pasquel.shtml AlmaLatina.Net]
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