IÑÍGUEZ, DALIA

(1911-1995)

Cuban-born actress who made her film debut in Peru in 1938; she came to Mexico in 1945 and over the next fifty years appeared in a number of films and TV shows, usually in supporting roles as somebody's mother, aunt, neighbor, servant, confidante, etc. Mostly on TV after the mid-'60s. Iñíguez, well-known as a "declamadora" (someone who performs poems, speeches from plays, etc.) in her native land, was married to Juan Pulido, a Cuban singer who later appeared as a character actor in Mexican films of the 1940s and '50s.