Adela Christian Bach Bottino (May 9, 1959 – February 26, 2019), known as Christian Bach, was an
Argentine-born Mexican actress and producer of
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
s produced by companies such as
Televisa,
TV Azteca
TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two nationa ...
and
Telemundo
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.
Her most famous works in telenovelas with Televisa included ''Los ricos también lloran'' (1979), ''Soledad'' (1980), ''Bodas de odio'' (1983),
''De pura sangre'' (1985) and ''Encadenados'' (1988). With TV Azteca her most relevant works included ''Agua y aceite'' (2002), which she also produced along with her husband
Humberto Zurita, and ''Vidas robadas'' (2010). With Telemundo her works included ''La Patrona'' (2013) and ''La Impostora'' (2014).
Biography
Bach was born in Buenos Aires to Roberto Bach Meizegeier and Adela Bottino Adamowa (better known as Adela Adamowa).
After graduating with a
degree in law Christian Bach moved to Mexico to become an actress.
She started working in plays and in films, where her voice was often dubbed to conceal her Argentine accent. She obtained a small role in the worldwide hit telenovela ''
Los ricos también lloran'' in 1979 and four years later a starring role in the successful ''Bodas de odio''.
In 1986 she co-starred with Zurita in ''
De pura sangre'' and in the same year they got married. Ten years later and after a string of successful productions with
Televisa the Zurita-Bach couple decided to form their own production company, ZUBA Producciones, and to move to nascent network
TV Azteca
TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two nationa ...
. Two years later they produced two telenovelas for the station, ''La chacala'' and ''
Azul Tequila'', a successful production that launched the career of
Bárbara Mori and
Mauricio Ochmann. In the 1980s she recorded an album as a solo singer, but the album lacked success and interest from the public.
In 1984 and 1989, Bach won the Best Actress award at the
TVyNovelas.
She also won the Best Actress TuMundo from Telemundo in 2013.
Bach died on February 26, 2019, due to respiratory failure. Her death was announced March 1 due to the actress' desire to keep personal matters private.
Filmography
Films
Television
TV shows
* Videoteatros: ''Véngan corriendo que les tengo un muerto'' (1993; producer)
See also
*
Foreign-born artists in Mexico
*
List of Argentines
Argentines who are notable include:
Artists
*Roberto Aizenberg, painter and sculptor
* Oscar Alemán, jazz guitarist
*Antonio Alice, portrait painter
*Marcelo Álvarez, tenor
*Martha Argerich, concert pianist
*Daniel Barenboim, pianist and cond ...
Notes
References
External links
Christian Bach profileat Alma-Latina.net
*
Profileat Zurita-Bach.com
*
1959 births
2019 deaths
Actresses from Buenos Aires
Argentine film actresses
Argentine telenovela actresses
Argentine emigrants to Mexico
Mexican film actresses
Mexican telenovela actresses
Naturalized citizens of Mexico
Deaths from respiratory failure
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