OLMEDO, RAQUEL

(Siomara Alicia Opama Leal)

(1937 - )

strong-featured Cuban-born actress, originally an opera singer in her native land. She came to Mexico in 1959 and made her screen debut in the late 1960s. Olmedo made a fair number of films in the 1970s and 1980s, but has primarily worked on TV and the stage.