The first Mexican actress Isela Vega died this Tuesday night as a cancer victim, at the age of 81, relatives reported on social media.
Born in Hermosillo, Sonora, on November 5, 1939, Isela Vega Durazo is an icon of sensuality in Mexican cinematography, where she has built a long and fruitful career.
“A transgressive woman of our cinema; actress, screenwriter, producer and director of powerful stories. With grief, also with great admiration and affection, we say goodbye to you, Isela Vega. our screens, “said the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine) on the social network Twitter.
Transgressive woman from our cinema; actress, screenwriter, producer and director of powerful stories.
We say goodbye with sadness, also with great admiration and affection, Isela Vega.
Follow with us the tremendous power you have always given to our screens. pic.twitter.com/UPKxrraB0a
– IMCINE (@imcine)
March 10, 2021
The news of his death, which took place in Mexico City, was announced by his family members on social networks and confirmed by Televisa through his Twitter account, noting that “family members confirm the unfortunate death of actress Isela Vega”.
Vega, whose roles in Herod’s Law and The Black Widow gave him awards Ariel left a filmography of 130 productions between series and feature films.
His most recent participation in a film was in “Cindy la regia”, while on TV he was part of “The house of flowers”.
“When you see that you’ve seen more than 100 movies, about 150, in the set scenes, making sequences, inventing, studying, all that is that you have spent half your life in fiction, ”he said at the time.