Alicia Bonet biography and main films

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Alicia bonnet (1947) is a Mexican film and soap opera actress who began her career in the 1950s, and has since been considered a celebrity in her country. Its beginnings were in a small children's theater company.

He has participated in films such as Even the wind is afraid, Guadalajara in summer, Bachelorette party, The scapular or Ruby, among many others. Likewise, he has also played roles in some soap operas such as Wanted a man, Love is not how they paint it or Viviana.

A young Alicia Bonet. Image taken from: www.tapatalk.com

She married actor Juan Ferrara, famous for his performances in soap operas of the 80s and 90s. With him she had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce and she remarried actor Claudio Brook, who died in nineteen ninety five.

Bonet played many characters during his artistic career, given the versatility he always showed on stage, this is how he was able to record horror films, comedy, drama or any other genre..

Article index

  • 1 Biography
    • 1.1 Early years
  • 2 Productions
    • 2.1 Movies
    • 2.2 Soap operas
  • 3 Major Movies
    • 3.1 The Scapular (1968)
    • 3.2 Ruby (1970)
    • 3.3 Even the wind is afraid (1968)
    • 3.4 Operation Carambola (1968)
    • 3.5 Like in the cinema (soap opera) (2001)
  • 4 References

Biography

Early years

Alicia Bonet was born in Mexico City on April 26, 1947. She began her acting career in a youth theater in the 1950s. She was married to fellow actor Juan Ferrara, and two children were born from that union, Juan Carlos Bonet. and Mauricio Bonet.

Apparently, Juan and Alicia met on the set of the film Mom's Problems from the year 1970. A film that tells the story of a widow, mother of four daughters who has to deal with home and family problems. Later, Alicia and Juan Ferrara divorced.

Her second nuptials were contracted to fellow actor Claudio Brook. From that union, two sons were born: Arturo and Gabriel. Claudio died in 1995 from stomach cancer.

Tragedy also came to Alicia Bonet's life when, in 2004, her son Gabriel committed suicide at the age of 29. Official sources confirmed that Gabriel jumped from the fourth floor of his building.

Productions

Films

- Operation carom (1968)

- Requiem for a scoundrel (1968)

- The angels of Puebla (1968)

- The scapular (1968)

- Finally alone (1969)

- Chase them and reach them (1969)

- When the children leave (1969)

- Love cross (1970)

- Ruby (1970)

- Mom's problems (1970)

- Even the wind is afraid (1968-2007)

- Tampico (1972)

- It happened in Jalisco (1972)

TV soaps

- La Celestina (1968)

- Viviana (1978)

- Ms (1998)

- Love is not how they paint it (2000)

- Like in the cinema (2001)

- The old women come marching (2001)

- Looking for a man (2007)

Top Movies

The Scapular  (1968)

One of the films that gave fame and recognition to Alicia Bonet, who already by those years had experience in theater and small roles.

In it she played the role of Rosario, a young woman who falls in love with Pedro, one of the wearers of the scapular. Apparently, the scapular has powers to safeguard the life of anyone who declares himself as its rightful owner.

Thus, it has been passed from generation to generation for years. It also has a sinister power that is put to the test in the film, thanks to the special effects of the golden age of Mexican cinema..

Ruby  (1970)

Ruby is a romantic story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché. In it, Alicia Bonet was in charge of playing Maribel de la Fuente, Rubí's best friend, a beautiful but very shy woman and somewhat withdrawn due to a disability.

This plot adapted for the cinema is actually a novel produced at different times and in different versions. Alicia Bonet had the opportunity to interpret it for film format, being directed and adapted by Carlos Enrique Taboada.

Even the wind is afraid (1968)

Another masterful performance by Alicia Bonet was in Even the wind is afraid, a 1968 film directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada and that tells the story of some young women who live in a female boarding school where strange events are happening.

Alicia plays Claudia, the leader of a group of friends who begin to see and feel hidden and evil entities within the boarding school. All the other girls have gone on vacation, but they are punished and have to stay at boarding school without being able to enjoy their vacations and that is where it all begins..

In 2007 a new version of this tape was produced. Today the film is considered one of the classics of Mexican horror cinema.

Operation Carambola (1968)

In this movie, a fake security agent hires Capulina as his assistant to prepare the carom operation. However, Capulina discovers that this is a criminal and decides to end the organization.

In this production, Alicia Bonet acts nothing more and nothing less than with the famous actor Gaspar Henaine "Capulina" and with the emblematic Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito".

Like in the cinema (soap opera) (2001)

Alicia Bonet played mother Maria in this soap opera. Her character was the mother superior of the boarding school where the protagonist's sister, Lorena Herrera, had to go to study..

In the scenes, it was common to see her giving wise advice to the community. It was one of the last roles Alicia played before retiring from the world of cinema..

At present, Alicia Bonet is outside the screens and the cinema. Apparently, the death of her son Gabriel plunged her into a deep sadness that prevented her from going back to work. Today it is difficult to access it to interview her or find out about her personal life.

In 2014 he gave an emotional performance in a chapter of What we women keep quiet, a TV Azteca series called "An old piece of furniture covered in dust".

In the episode, Alicia Bonet plays an elderly grandmother who is verbally abused by her daughter. She considers her a burden and useless, and permanently prevents her from seeing her grandchildren, which causes her to suffer from deep depression.

References

  1. Biography of Alicia Bonet. (2019). Taken from tapatalk.com
  2. The scapular (1968). (2019). Taken from www.filmaffinity.com
  3. Rubí - Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1970 (2019). Taken from hallucinecinefago.wordpress.com
  4. TV, G., Vicens, J., Rivelles, A., Cordero, J., Andere, J., & Crevenna, A. et al. (2019). Breast problems. Taken from elmundo.es
  5. Alicia Bonet. (2019). Taken from esacademic.com

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