Maru Dueñas (born María Eugenia Dueñas Posadas; October 3, 1967 – November 11, 2017) was a Mexican

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

, director and producer. Dueñas studied at the Andrés Soleracademy and later at the

Centro de Educación Artística The Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) is an Drama school, entertainment educational institution in Mexico run by that country's major media conglomerate, Televisa. Located at Televisa San Ángel, the company's facilities in the San Ángel nei ...

Televisa Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April ...

in 1986.

Death

Dueñas died in a

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on November 11, 2017, when the truck in which she was traveling, owned by the Televisa company, hit a truck at kilometer 46 of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway. The director Claudio Reyes Rubio, son of the Mexican actress

María Rubio María Rubio (September 21, 1934 – March 1, 2018) was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, ''Cuna de lobos ''Cuna de lobos'' ( English: ''C ...

, also died in the accident.

Filmography

Television

* '' Cenizas y diamantes'' (1990) as Cuquín * ''

Ángeles blancos ''Ángeles blancos'' (English title: ''White angels'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1990. Jacqueline Andere, Rogelio Guerra and Alfonso Iturralde starred as protagonists, while Queta Lavat, Héctor Gómez ...

'' (1990/91) * ''

Más allá del puente ''Más allá del puente'', is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1993. It is a sequel of the telenovela, '' De frente al sol'' produced in 1992. María Sorté and Alfredo Adame star as the main protagonists. Cast ...

'' (1993) as Carmelita * ''La vida en risa'' (1994) * ''La chuchufleta'' (1995) * ''Todo de todo'' (1997) * ''La Güereja y algo más'' (1998) * ''Diversión desconocida'' (1998/99) * '' Las delicias del poder'' (1999) * ''

La casa en la playa ''La casa en la playa'' (''The Beach House'') is a Mexican telenovela produced in 2000. It stars Cynthia Klitbo, Sergio Goyri, Marga López, Blanca Guerra, José Carlos Ruiz, Mariana Levy, David Ostrosky, Mario Cimarro, Yadhira Carrillo, ...

'' (2000) as Nina López * '' Mujer, casos de la vida real'' (2002/16) 20 episodes * ''El terreno de Eva'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) * ''

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'' (2006) as Nurse * '' Alma de hierro'' (2008/09) as Sonia * '' La rosa de Guadalupe'' (2008/12) 36 episodes * '' Los Simuladores'' (2009) * ''Ellas son... la alegría del hogar'' (2009) * '' Lo que la vida me robó'' (2014) as Zulema * ''

Tres veces Ana ''Tres veces Ana'' (''The Three Sides of Ana'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is a remake of '' Lazos de amor'' produced in 1995. It premiered on May 23, 2016. The series stars Angelique Boyer as Ana ...

'' (2016) as Cecilia * ''

Como dice el dicho ''Como dice el dicho'' (translation: As the saying goes) is a Mexican anthology drama series produced by Genoveva Martínez for Televisa. The series premiered on 1 February 2011, on Las Estrellas. The series covers a variety of stories in whi ...

'' (2017) 3 episodes

Films

* ''Hasta morir'' (1994) as Diana

Theatre

* ''La jaula de las locas'' * ''A Chorus Line'' * ''Cats'' * ''Las bodas de Fígaro'' * ''Un tipo con suerte'' * ''La isla del tesoro'' * ''El príncipe feliz'' * ''La leyenda del beso'' * ''Nosotras que nos queremos tanto'' * ''Gypsy (musical)'' * ''Expreso astral'' * ''Adorables enemigas'' * ''Orgasmos'' * ''Solo quiero hacerte feliz'' * ''Placer o no ser'' * ''Scherezada''"Maru Dueñas, una apasionada de la actuación"
''El Universal'', November 11, 2017. * ''Nosotras que nos queremos tanto'' * ''El show de Jerry Lewis sin Jerry Lewis'' * ''La misma gata pero con botas''

Short films

* ''Letras capitales'' (1993) * ''La crisálida'' (1996)

Direction

* ''Papi piernas largas'' (2017)

Dialogue

* '' Lo que la vida me robó'' (2013/14) * ''

'' (2016) * 1st part of ''

Me declaro culpable ''Me declaro culpable'' (English: ''I Plead Guilty'') is a Mexican telenovela that premiered on Las Estrellas on 6 November 2017 and ended on 28 January 2018. It stars Daniela Castro, Mayrín Villanueva, and Juan Soler (actor), Juan Soler as main ...

'' (2017)

Production

* ''En busca de una familia feliz'' (1986) * ''Cinexxxitarse'' (1996)

References

External links

* * 1967 births 2017 deaths Road incident deaths in Mexico Mexican telenovela actresses Mexican television actresses Mexican film actresses Mexican stage actresses Mexican theatre directors Mexican film producers Actresses from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican actresses 21st-century Mexican actresses Mass media people from Mexico City {{Mexico-actor-stub Accidental deaths in Mexico