Beatriz Sheridan

Beatriz Sheridan was a Mexican first actress and director.

Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough was born in 1934 in Mexico City, Mexico, to an English mother and a Mexican father. She had seven siblings. After studying at the University of Missouri, she participated in the first Mexican telenovela in 1958, Senda prohibida, and later became one of Mexicos premier stage actresses. She received several awards for her work in the theater. For her 1980 performance in Fassbinders Las amargas lgrimas de Petra von Kant, she received every available award. Poet Guadalupe Amor penned her poem Las amargas lgrimas de Beatriz Sheridan.

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