SEVILLA, NINÓN

(Emilia Pérez Castellanos)

(1926 - )

Cuban-born actress and dancer who made her Mexican screen debut in 1946. In the late 1940s and early 1950s she was one of the most popular screen performers, mostly in dramas-with-music like the classicAventurera, directed by Alberto Gout (who made six pictures with Sevilla). However, by the late 1950s her movie career was in decline, in large part due to the changing tastes of the public. Sevilla returned to acting in the 1980s and won the Best Actress Ariel forNoche de carnaval(1981). She is still active, mostly in telenovelas.