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Azela Robinson (born Azela Jacqueline Robinson Cañedo on 26 August 1965) is a Mexican actress. She has portrayed antagonistic characters in the Mexican
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 (film and television), drama genres around the w ...
s '' Cañaveral de pasiones'' (1996), '' Contra viento y marea'' (2005), '' Llena de amor'' (2010) and '' Yo no creo en los hombres'' (2014).


Early life

Azela Jacqueline Robinson was born in
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, United Kingdom. Her mother, Nadja Cañedo is Mexican and her father, Alan Robinson is British. She began her professional training as an actress in 1980 within the
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is a drama school in Bristol, England. The institution provides training in acting and production for careers in film, television and theatre. BOVTS was an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance a ...
in Bristol, UK. Eventually, between 1982 and 1983 she took courses at the National Theatre in London.


Career


Films

Once in Mexico, Robinson began her career as an actress in the movies. She debuted Fin de semana en Garibaldi" (1989), along with Jorge Reynoso. From that time until 1993, Robinson works on approximately 68 films, mainly comedy and action genres. Of them stand out ribbons like ''Sor Batalla'' (1990), with María Antonieta de las Nieves ''La Chilindrina''; ''La mujer judicial'' (1990), again next to Mario Almada; ''El extensionista'' (1991), along with Eduardo Palomo; ''Mujer de cabaret'' (1991), directed by Julián Pastor, with Maribel Guardia and Leonardo Daniel; ''El trono del infierno'' (1992), with Sergio Goyri and or ''Dama de Noche'' (1993), with Rafael Sánchez Navarro and Cecilia Toussaint, among others.


Television

Robinson made her Mexican TV debut in a chapter of the famous horror serie '' La hora marcada'', in 1990. In 1995 she got her first character in a telenovela with the hand of producer Enrique Segoviano in the telenovela '' Pobre niña rica'', with Victoria Ruffo and singer
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. In 1996 she plays ''Dinorah Faberman'', one of the most important and remembered characters of her career, in the telenovela '' Cañaveral de pasiones'', produced by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach and sharing credit with Daniela Castro, Juan Soler and Angelica Aragón, among others. Thanks to her interpretation, Robinson becomes one of the most outstanding villains of the Mexican telenovelas. As villain she works on melodramas like '' La usurpadora'' (1998), '' Laberintos de pasión'' (1999) and '' Mi destino eres tú'' (2000). In 2001 she interprets the role of ''Francisca'', another of her personages more remembered in the telenovela '' El manantial'', produced by Carla Estrada, next to Adela Noriega, Daniela Romo and Alejandro Tommasi. In 2002 she played one of her few non-antagonistic characters in the telenovela '' La Otra'', produced by Ernesto Alonso. In 2005, she plays ''Apolonia'', another of her most successful antagonistic characters in the telenovela '' Contra viento y marea'', forming a famous dumbbell with actress Beatriz Sheridan. In 2020, Robinson debuted as a director in the telenovela '' ¿Qué le pasa a mi familia?'' produced by Juan Osorio.


Theatre

Azela Robinson has participated in theatrical assemblies in Mexico. Of them they emphasise ''Todos a la piscina'' (1991), ''Trilogía amorosa'' (1993), the classic '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1995), with
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and Juan Ignacio Aranda, directed by Enrique Rentería; '' La casa de Bernarda Alba'' (2002), by
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, along with the actresses Ofelia Guilmáin, Maria Rubio and Aurora Molina; ''Hombres'' (2005), with Patricia Reyes Spíndola, María Rojo and others; ''Orinoco'' (2007), directed by Benjamín Cann, along Cynthia Klitbo; ''El acrobata'' (2008), directed by Roberto D'Amico and next to Ricardo Fastlicht; ''
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'' (2008), directed by Leonardo Ayala, with Mónica Dionne; ''Doce mujeres en pugna'' (2009), produced by Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, along with Yolanda Mérida, Laura Zapata, Leticia Calderón and others; ''La ronda de las harpías'' (2009), with Ofelia Medina, Victoria Ruffo and Magda Guzmán; ''Tu tampoco eres normal'' (2011), directed by Humberto Zurita, next to Alexis Ayala; ''Baño de mujeres'' (2013), under the direction of Roberto D'Amico, with Sylvia Pasquel, Ofelia Medina and others, and ''Made in Mexico'' (2015), with Juan Ferrara, Rafael Inclán and Socorro Bonilla."Los negros pájaros del adiós" (2016) "Entre mujeres"2019 ((Edith Gozalez)) ((Ana Bertha Espín))


Filmography


Awards and nominations


Premios TV y Novelas


References


External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Azela 1965 births Living people Actresses from London Actresses of Mexican descent Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School English emigrants to Mexico English people of Mexican descent Mexican film actresses Mexican people of English descent Mexican stage actresses Mexican telenovela actresses Mexican television actresses Naturalized citizens of Mexico 20th-century English women 21st-century English women 20th-century Mexican actresses 21st-century Mexican actresses