Carmen Salinas, an artistic career of more than half a century that was turned off by a brain hemorrhage

After staying for almost a month in a hospital in Mexico City, due to a stroke, the renowned Mexican actress Carmen Salinas placeholder image He passed away at 82 years of age around midnight on Thursday, December 9. The announcement was made by the artist’s family on her official Instagram account, where she always kept the press aware of her health.

Carmen Salinas Lozano He was born on October 5, 1939 in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. Since she was a child she showed her interest in the artistic world; thus, to the ten years began singing and performing imitations in a show radio from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. He debuted professionally as actress in september 1953 at Opera cinema of the Aztec capital.

At 17 she married the musician Pedro Plascencia with whom he had two children, Pedro Y Maria Eugenia. The first died in 1994, while María Eugenia was with her mother until her last breath.

After a large theatrical performance season, the doors of television were opened to the young actress thanks to the soap opera The neighborhood (1964). Other melodramas that turned his face into one of the most loved and popular in Latin America They were Maria mercedes (1992), Maria from the neighborhood (from 1995, as the unforgettable Agrippina) along with Thalia; My little naughty (1997); Hug me very tight (2000); Until the money do us part (2009), to mention a few.

In fact, the most recent was My fortune is to love you, which premiered in Mexico at the beginning of November, whose work that could not be concluded due to its hospital admission on November 11. Your producer, Nicandro Diaz, recently revealed that they will pay tribute to him in this production. “I am fortunate to have known Carmelita many years ago, always, from beginning to end, she was a very lucid person, very correct, very agile of mind, very lively,” he mentioned to a Televisa newscast.

In these almost 70 years of artistic career, he also worked on more than one hundred films, such as The useless life of Pito Pérez, The corner of the virgins, The place without limits, Beautiful at night Y The same moon, among other. One of the most remembered in this century was his short but memorable role in Man on Fire (2004), next to Denzel Washington. His last cinematographic participation was in the film Longings that he made in 2018.

His daughter Maria Eugenia Plascencia told a Televisa newscast how the last moments of his mother. “He passed away before 12 (midnight). I went in to see her. I started talking to her, she looked very bad. I started to tell him not to worry, that we were going to be fine; that if you already wanted to rest, go ahead. Let him go with my little brother Pedro or my uncle Chato Cejudo and not worry about any of us ”.

Plascencia confessed how she would like to be remembered winner of the Silver Goddess in 2009 and 2013. “Like a diva, a great impersonator, an actress. A great companion, friend, grandmother, mother-in-law, sister, great-grandmother. Remember it as all the best ”, he concluded.

In the statement of the death of Salinas that the relatives shared on social networks, they also took the opportunity to thank the followers for being aware of the also singer during her stay in the hospital.