Name
Sara Montiel
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-03-10
Deathday
2013-04-08 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel or Saritísima; 10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of Castile–La Mancha in 1928 as María Antonia Abad (complete name María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández). After her work in Juan de Orduña's El Último Cuplé in 1957, Montiel worked in Europe, Latin America and United States. Montiel's film Varietes was banned in Beijing in 1973. Her films El Último Cuple and La Violetera netted the highest gross revenues ever recorded for films made in the Spanish speaking movie industry during the 1950s/60s. She played the role of Antonia, the niece of Don Quixote, in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes's great novel.
She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education by a male actor in drag (Gael García Bernal) as the cross-dressing character Zahara, and a film clip from one of her movies was used as well.
Known For
7.4
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicli...
5.3
The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, f...
6.1
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, take...
5.9
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who ...
6
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry...
6.8
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the mass...
7.2
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. ...
6.9
On New Year's Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets...
- 2004 Bad Education as Soledad (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1954 Vera Cruz as Nina
- 1957 Run of the Arrow as Yellow Moccasin
- 1956 Serenade as Juana Montes
- 1957 The Last Couplet as Maria Luján
- 1968 Tuset Street as Violeta Riscal
- 1963 Casablanca, Nest of Spies as Teresa Vilar
- 1947 Don Quixote as Antonia
- 1962 The Lovely Lola as Lola
- 1966 La mujer perdida as Sara Fernán
- 1961 Pecado de amor as Magda Beltrán / Sor Belén
- 1953 That Man from Tangier as Aixa
- 1965 The Woman from Beirut as Isabel Llanos
- 1965 Samba as Belén / Laura Monteiro
- 1952 Ahí viene Martín Corona as Rosario
- 1952 El enamorado as Rosario
- 1962 Queen of the Chantecler as La bella Charito
- 1969 Esa mujer as Soledad Romero Fuentes
- 1948 La mies es mucha as Guyerati
- 1958 The Violet Seller as Soledad Moreno
- 1959 The Devil Made a Woman as Carmen
- 1960 Mi último tango as Marta Andreu
- 1948 Locura de amor as Aldara
- 1971 Varietés
- 1974 Five Pillows for One Night as Rosa López / Ana
- 1966 La vida de Pedro Infante as (archive footage)
- 1955 Yo no creo en los hombres as María Caridad Robledo
- 2005 Singing to the Gods: Mario Lanza as Self
- 1950 El capitán Veneno
- 2022 La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 1951 I Need Money as María Teresa
- 1955 Frente al Pecado de Ayer
- 1953 Ella, Lucifer y yo as Isabel
- 1954 Se solicitan modelos as Rosina
- 1951 Cárcel de mujeres as Dora
- 1956 Where the Circle Ends as Isabel
- 1947 Mariona Rebull as Lula
- 1945 Bambú as Yoyita
- 1953 ¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
- 1951 Furia roja as María Stevens
- 1953 Cinnamon Skin as Marucha
- 1954 Por qué ya no me quieres as Rosaura Moreno / Lilia
- 2002 Zero/infinito as (voice)
- 2011 Enrique Herreros as Self - Actress
- 2019 Todos los nombres de Sara as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 1971 La casa de los Martínez
- 1975 Canciones de nuestra vida as (archive footage)
- 1950 Pequeñeces as Monique
- 1948 Alhucemas as María Luisa Pereira
- 1996 Asaltar los cielos
- 1996 Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
- 2013 Barefoot in the Kitchen as (archive footage)
- 2006 80s: El soundtrack de una generación as Self (archive footage)
- 1944 Empezó en boda
- 1988 La última cena... del 88 as Self
- 2002 Sara, una estrella
- 2025 Trainsmoking
- 1976 Songs for After a War as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 Legends ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 De pé a pá ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Super Sara ( 3 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 Kety Won't Stop ( 1 episode )
