Confirmed exclusively to Grupo Healy, the Mexican icon of cinema, Isela Vega died on the afternoon of this day at the age of 82 in Mexico City, a cancer victim after battling the disease for a month, explained her niece, Brenda Vega. , out to this publisher.
He added that while there were good prognoses about his condition, his body was not resisting.
Born Cauti, Sonora became an icon on the Mexican big screen in the 1969 and 70s, when she began her acting career alongside actors like Pedro Armendáriz and Guillermo Murray.
However, she is also recognized as the first Latina woman to appear in the North American version of Playboy magazine, where she posed completely nude.
Isela Vega was the mother of Arturo, whose father is the singer Alberto Vázquez; in turn, she also had a daughter named Shaula with actor Jorge Luke.
Vega remained active in acting until the end and even managed to participate in such productions as La casa de las flores, from Netflix or in the movie Cindy la Regia.
In between soap operas and films, he participated in more than 90 productions, Mexican and American as well as Brazilian, Argentinian, Australian and English.
She received the Ariel Award for Best Actress four times: 1984 The Black Widow; 2000 Herod’s Law; 2007 Off the air; and in 2015 The hours with you.
Isela Vega also had an intimate friendship with the Divo de Juárez, Juan Gabriel, with whom she recently even revealed an unpublished video featuring the composer recorded a few days before his death.
So far neither of his two sons has spoken out on the matter.