Queta Carrasco (July 4, 1913 — August 8, 1996) was a Mexican character actress.

Early life

Enriqueta Carrasco Navarrete was born in

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, the daughter of Honorato Carrasco and

Ada Navarrete Ada Navarrete (Mérida, Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, July 20, 1890 — Mexico City, August 13, 1967), also seen as Ada Navarrete Tappan and Ada Navarrete de Carrasco, was a soprano opera singer from Yucatán, Mexico. Early life Ada Navarrete wa ...

. Her father was an engineer and her mother was an opera singer. Her older sister

Ada Carrasco Ada Carrasco (14 September 1912 – 5 April 1994) was a Mexican film and television actress. Early life Carrasco was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Honorato Carrasco, an engineer, and the opera star Ada Navarrete. Career Carrasco starte ...

also became an actress, as did Ada's daughter Malena Doria.

Career

Carrasco's first role in a film came in 1962, in ''Ruletera a toda marcha'', directed by

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; her sister Ada was also in that film. She was in more than forty Mexican films, mostly genre films, including ''La Venganza de Huracán Ramirez'' (1967, a "masked wrestler" film) ''Los Asesinos'' (1968), ''Un Quijote sin Mancha'' (1969), ''Elena y Raquel'' (1970), ''Pubertinaje'' (1971), ''El Águila Descalza'' (1971), ''

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'' (1973), ''

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'' (1975), '' Coyote and Bronca'' (1980), She also appeared in

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including ''

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'' (1982), '' Tú eres mi destino'' (1984), '' La indomable'' (1987), ''

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), '' Vida robada'' (1991), '' Corazon salvaje'' (1993), and '' Dos mujeres, un camino'' (1993-1994), often playing grandmothers. She was acting to the very end of her life, with her last role in 1995 in the telenovela '' Alondra''.''Biographical Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers''
(EdwART 2012).

Personal life

Queta Carrasco died in 1996, in Mexico City, aged 83 years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrasco, Queta 1913 births 1996 deaths Mexican film actresses Mexican telenovela actresses Actresses from Mexico City