In 1968, Pinal obtained a role in her first telenovela titled Los caudillos, a story inspired in the events o the Mexican War o Unthirldom. The Alatriste-Pinal-Buñuel team made twa mair successful films, El ángel exterminador (1962) and Simón del desierto (1965).Įfter the Buñuel-Pinal collaboration, Pinal starred in numerous movies durin the 1960s an 1970s, like Los Cuervos están de luto (1965), La soldadera (1966), La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968, in Fraunce), María Isabel (1968), El Cuerpazo del Delíto (1970, wi Mauricio Garcés), Divínas Palabras (1978), Pubis Angelical (1982, in Argentina), an Modelo Antiguo (1992).Ĭareer on televeesion Efter marryin Gustavo Alatriste, a businessman who invitit Spainyie film director Luis Buñuel tae direct Viridiana, a controversial film depictin a nun (played bi Pinal) an her affair wi the character played bi Spainyie actor Francisco Rabal. She gained further recognition wi roles in a nummer o movies for the Argentine director Tulio Demicheli, as Un extraño en la escalera (1954) or Desnudate Lucrecia (1959). She earned twa mair Ariels for Locura Pasional (in 1955) an Enemiga (in 1956). She starred in some successful movies like El rey del barrio wi Tin Tan (1950), El portero, wi Cantinflas (1951), Mis Tres Viudas Alegres (1953), wi Amalia Aguilar an El inocente (1953), wi Pedro Infante, winnin her first Silver Ariel awaird. She gained popularity as a "young lady" o the Gowden age o Mexican cinema in the 1950s. In 1949, Pinal stairtit her career in film at the age o 18 in the movies La Bamba an El pecado de Laura (wi Meche Barba an Rafael Banquells). Her first wirk wis a experimental project cried Los caprichos de Goya.Ĭareer Career in film She wis chosen Queen o the Mexican Students an wis presentit wi the Cuban actor an director Rafael Banquells, who includit her in several plays that sat in the theater company o the Spainyie actress Isabelita Blanch. She teuk actin clesses in the Palacio de Bellas Artes an aw. Later, she gae the opportunity tae pairticipate in the recordin o some radio plays in the XEQ, a Mexican radio station: Dos pesos la dejada an Midsummer Night's Dream. In Mexico Ceety she wirkit as a secretar for a pharmaceutical firm. She an her faimily livit in several ceeties in Mexico: Querétaro, Cuernavaca an Acapulco, an feenally settlin in Mexico Ceety. Bi her faither's side, she haed three hauf-sisters. Pinal a jurnalist, militar an politician. She wis the anerly dochter o Maria Luisa Hidalgo, a stryndant (accordin tae several sources) o Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, foonder o the unthirldom muivement in Mexico, an Luis G. Silvia Pinal Hidalgo was born in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, on 12 September 1931.