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
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
, 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
MarÃa 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
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes (; born 17 June 1971) is a Mexican singer, songwriter and television personality. Referred to as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, The Golden Girl", she first achieved recognition as a member of the successf ...
. 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), ''TrilogÃa amorosa'' (1993), the classic ''
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1995), with
Rogelio Guerra
Hildegardo Francisco Guerra MartÃnez (8 October 1936 – 28 February 2018), known artistically as Rogelio Guerra, was a Mexican actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a pr ...
and Juan Ignacio Aranda, directed by Enrique RenterÃa; ''
La casa de Bernarda Alba'' (2002), by
Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús GarcÃa Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. GarcÃa Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a g ...
, along with the actresses
Ofelia Guilmáin,
Maria Rubio and Aurora Molina; ''Hombres'' (2005), with
Patricia Reyes SpÃndola,
MarÃa Rojo and others; ''Orinoco'' (2007), directed by BenjamÃn Cann, along
Cynthia Klitbo; ''El acrobata'' (2008), directed by Roberto D'Amico and next to Ricardo Fastlicht; ''
Macbeth
''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambiti ...
'' (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 harpÃas'' (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 EspÃn))
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Premios TV y Novelas
References
External links
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Azela Robinson en alma latina
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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