Angélica Espinosa Stransky was born on July 11, 1953, in Mexico City. She is daughter of the famous composer and actor José Ángel Espinosa “Ferrusquilla” and Sanya Stransky. Her brothers and sisters are Vindia, Jacqueline and John. She studied at the Sierra Nevada elementary school and continued her middle-school and high-school at the Colegio Franco-Mexicano and the Universidad Moderna Americana. She has a BA in Philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London, England. During seven years she studied acting, pantomime, performing arts, singing and dance. To complete her acting education she also took courses at the Contemporary School of Dance in London, and at the National Academy of Dance and the School of Kerala Kelandam Dance, both in India. She returned to Mexico in 1980 and was hired by Televisa, where she acted in several drama series in the eighties and nineties. She also participated in several films such as Toy Soldiers with Tim Robbins, The evil that men do with Charles Bronson, and the cult film Dune. She was mainly cast as a socialite and played the role of a noble indigenous woman in De Frente al Sol. She played the role of the wife of composer Álvaro Carrillo in the film Sabor a mí with José José, who was cast in the role of the composer in the film. Even though she had already performed small roles in foreign films shot in Mexico, her debut in the Mexican cinema took place until 1987 in the film La furia de un dios. At 44 years old, after a long time of not having been offered leading roles from Televisa, a company that produces mainly for younger actresses, she was offered a lead in TV Azteca’s second drama series, Mirada de mujer, in which ironically she plays the role of a woman that is rejected by her husband and finds love in the arms of a younger man. She also participated in the sequel to this TV drama, El Regreso, and in the film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas. She has directed theater in Mexico, the United States and Puerto Rico. She directed several TV episodes of the series Lo que callamos las mujeres. She practices the Hindu religion. Besides Spanish she speaks four other languages: English, French, Portuguese and Bengali, and has studied Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Hindu and Japanese. She has one daughter, Maria. The name of this extraordinary leading actress is written in golden letters in the history of Mexico’s television, theater and cinema.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey
