Lucha Villa

Personal Info

Birthday

November 30, 1936

(88 years old)

Place of Birth

Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico

Also Known As

Луча Вилья

Lucha Villa

Biography

Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano (born November 30, 1936), more commonly known by her stage name Lucha Villa, is a Mexican singer and actress. She appeared in several films during the 1950s and early 1960s, received her first starring role in El gallo de oro (1965), and starred in Me cansé de rogarle, a musical with Jiménez and recording star Marco Antonio Muñiz. She has appeared in some fifty films and won an Ariel Award for Best Actress (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar) for Mecánica nacional (1973).

Known For

The Place Without Limits

Omen

The Golden Cockerel

El mariachi canta

The Empire of Dracula

El principio

Lolo

El Quelite

Filmography

1993
Encuentro Inesperado
as Pilar Landeros
Lolo
as Doña Rosario
1985
Doña Herlinda and Her Son
as Herself
1982
Lagunilla 2
as Dona Lancha / Maria
1980
Del otro lado del puente
as La Madre
1979
Adriana del Rio, actriz
as Self
1978
The Place Without Limits
as La Japonesa
1975
Omen
as Angela
1973
El principio
as María del Rayo, la Coquena
1972
National Mechanics
as Isabel
1970
El Quelite
as Lucha
Las tres magnificas
as Paz
1969
Yaqui
as Mariana
1967
El centauro Pancho Villa
as Lupe la Borrada
The Empire of Dracula
as Patricia
Seis días para morir
as Avelina Rodríguez
Rosa la tequilera
as Rosa la Tequilera
1966
Los dos rivales
as Nicanor Juereña
Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
as Lupe Villa
1965
Un callejón sin salida
as Herself - Special Performer
1964
The Golden Cockerel
as Bernarda "La Caponera"
1963
El mariachi canta
as Lupe
El terror de la frontera
as Margarita
Two Cheerful Hawks
as María Sánchez