Lupe Vélez

Personal Info

Birthday

July 18, 1908

Day of Death

1944-12-13

(36 years old)

Place of Birth

San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Also Known As

María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez

Лупе Велес

Lupe Vélez

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944), was a Mexican and American stage and film actress, comedian, dancer and vedette. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s.

After moving to the United States, she made her first film appearance in a short film in 1927. By the end of the decade, in the last years of American silent films, she had progressed to leading roles in numerous movies like El Gaucho (1927), Lady of the Pavements (1928) and Wolf Song (1929), among others. She was one of the first successful Latin American actresses in the United States.