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The actress Carmen Yolanda Sainz Reyes, better known as Yolanda Varela , was born on March 30, 1930 in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. She studied ballet at the National Institute of the Performing Arts. She is one of the great actresses of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He starred in many films alongside figures such as Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Daniel Gelin, Arturo de Córdoba, Jorge Mistral, Resortes, Clavillazo, the German Valdez Tintan, Manolo Fábregas, Ernesto Alonso, Pedro Vargas, Mauricio Garcez, Miguel Acevez Mejía and Joaquín Lamb. In 1946 she debuted on the big screen with the film Memories of My Valley , and later the producer and director Ismael Rodríguez offered her one of the main roles in Two Types of Care (1953), a film that managed to increase national fame. her. He continued participating in films such as Strength of the Humble (1955), What Happened to Samson (1955), The Seven Leagues (1955), Una Movida Chueca (1956), Whom Our Daughters Walk With (1956), The Barefoot Sultan (1956). 1956), School of pickpockets (1957) and I want to be an artist (1958). In 1960 she married Fernando de Fuentes Reyes, son of the director and producer Fernando de Fuentes. She died at the age of 79, on August 29, 2009, in Mexico City, victim of a cerebral embolism.
