Josefina Echánove
Josefina Echánove was a Mexican film, television and stage actress. She received two Ariel Award nominations for her acting roles.
Early life
Echánove was born in New York City, US. She studied journalism at Universidad Femenina de México in Mexico City and later changed her major to dance. She went on to found the Contemporary Dance Academy of the University of Guanajuato.Acting career
Her acting career began with roles in the Entremeses Cervantinos, which later became the International Cervantino Festival. She went on to appear in more than 40 films, and more than 40 television soap operas. She was twice nominated for Best Actress in a Picture at the Ariel Awards: in 1991 for Por tu maldito amor, by Rafael Villaseñor Kuri and in 1993 for Serpientes y Escaleras '', by Busi Cortés.One of her most notable stage performances was in 1985, when she appeared in the play La fiera del Ajusco by Mexican playwright Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda.
Selected films
- El hombre de los hongos
- The Children of Sanchez
- Border Cop
- Missed
- The Honorary Consul
- Amityville 3-D as Dolores
- Old Gringo
- Cabeza de Vaca
- Perdita Durango
- The Other Conquest
- Santitos
- ''Todos hemos pecado''
Selected television series
- Cuna de Lobos as Elvia
- La Dueña (Mexico) as Martina
- Cañaveral de Pasiones as Remedios
- Rubí as Pancha Muñoz
- Mañana es para siempre as Rosenda
- Corazón salvaje as Kuma