Katy Jurado

Acting

Katy Jurado

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 16, 1924 (101 years old)
Death date
Jul 05, 2002

Katy Jurado

Known For

3-D Rarities: Volume II
2h 7m
Movie 2020

3-D Rarities: Volume II

Blu-ray. 2020 release, the long-awaited follow-up collection of extraordinary 3-D...

A Beautiful Secret
2h 10m
Movie 2002

A Beautiful Secret

The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last...

The Hi-Lo Country
1h 54m
Movie 1998

The Hi-Lo Country

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between...

A Mexican Buñuel
0h 56m
Movie 1997

A Mexican Buñuel

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico...

Te Sigo Amando
0h 44m
TV Show 1996

Te Sigo Amando

Más allá del puente
TV Show 1993

Más allá del puente

Alicia Sandoval and Eduardo Fuentes are already married and are...

Biography

Katy Jurado (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, was a Mexican stage and screen actress. Jurado had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman (High Noon), Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and John Huston (Under the Volcano). Jurado made seventy one films during her career. She became the first Latina/Hispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award when she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954's "Broken Lance" and was the first to win a Golden Globe. Like many Latin actors, she was typecast to play ethnic roles in American films. By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films; sometimes she also sang and danced.