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Ada Carrasco is a Actor Mexicaine born on 14 september 1912 at Mexico City (Mexique)

Ada Carrasco

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Nationality Mexique
Birth 14 september 1912 at Mexico City (Mexique)
Death 5 april 1994 (at 81 years) at Mexico City (Mexique)

Ada Carrasco (14 September 1912 – 5 April 1994) was a Mexican film and television actress. She started her career as an actress in 1952, and went on to make over 38 soap operas, including Los Ricos También Lloran, with Verónica Castro in 1979, Rosa Salvaje in 1987, De Frente al Sol in 1992, Más Allá del Puente in 1994, and finally, her last soap opera was made in 1994 in Marimar with Thalía. She died of a heart attack on 5 April 1994.

She is also known for various film appearances from Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) where she was given a supporting role, to OK Mister Pancho (1981) where she starred as a woman who traveled to the United States with María Elena Velasco's character of La India María.

Mother of the also actress Malena Doria and great-grandmother of the actress Andrea Escalona.

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Filmography of Ada Carrasco (8 films)

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Actress

Like Water for Chocolate, 1h53
Directed by Alfonso Arau
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Margarita Isabel, Mario Iván Martínez, Claudette Maillé
Rating71% 3.5516653.5516653.5516653.5516653.551665
Tita, as the youngest daughter in a traditional Mexican family, is forbidden to marry. Her duty is to care for her mother until the day the mother dies. Therefore, when Pedro, the boy Tita has fallen in love with, and his father come to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage, Tita's mother, Mama Elena, refuses. Mama Elena offers her other daughter, Rosaura, and Pedro accepts in order to be closer to Tita. Tita bakes the wedding cake with tears, causing vomiting, crying, and a longing for their true love in all those who eat it.
Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1h53
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes French war films, Political films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Alberto Morin, Armando Silvestre, Manolo Fábregas, Ada Carrasco
Roles Juan's mother
Rating69% 3.4988653.4988653.4988653.4988653.498865
A drifter named Hogan spots and saves a naked woman from being gang-raped by several bandits whom he shoots and kills. He later learns that the woman, Sara, is a nun working with a group of Mexican revolutionaries who are fighting the French. When Sara requests that Hogan take her to a Mexican camp, he agrees because he had previously arranged to help the Mexican revolutionaries attack the French garrison in exchange for a portion of the garrison's strongbox if they are successful.
Los Cuervos están de luto, 1h30
Directed by Francisco del Villar
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Silvia Pinal, Lilia Prado, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Fanny Schiller, Ada Carrasco
Rating67% 3.376363.376363.376363.376363.37636
Don Lacho (Narciso Busquets), a greedy old man, is about to die. His three children, but mainly his daughter-in-law Piedad (Silvia Pinal), are anxiously awaiting his death to collect the inheritance, but the old man refuses to die.
Nazarin
Nazarin (1959)
, 1h34
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Ignacio López Tarso, Noé Murayama, Rosenda Monteros
Rating76% 3.8466753.8466753.8466753.8466753.846675
Padre Nazario is a Roman Catholic priest of Spanish heritage living austerely in a hotel on the poor side of town. He is of a quiet, temperate nature and carelessly gives away what little he has, to the point of not caring whenever his room is burgled. He demonstrates understanding and compassion for those he encounters, such as a woman living below him, Beatriz, who is plagued by psychotic episodes and thoughts of suicide, and has a troubled relationship with a man named Pinto.
The Bravados, 1h38
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Barry Coe
Roles Mrs. Parral
Rating69% 3.4946953.4946953.4946953.4946953.494695
Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is a rancher pursuing four outlaws after the murder of his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where four men, Alfonso Parral (Lee Van Cleef), Bill Zachary (Stephen Boyd), Ed Taylor (Albert Salmi) and Lujan (Henry Silva), are in jail awaiting execution. Sheriff Eloy Sanchez (Herbert Rudley) allows Douglas to see the men.