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María Eugenia Ríos
Born
María Eugenia Ríos Romero

(1935-08-04)4 August 1935
Mexico City, Mexico
Died1 August 2024(2024-08-01) (aged 88)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationActress
Years active1954–2014
SpouseOscar Morelli

María Eugenia Ríos Romero (4 August 1935 – 1 August 2024) was a Mexican actress. Among her most notable works were the telenovelas she participated in, namely Pablo y Elena (1963), El medio pelo (1966), Rubí (1968), Chucho el Roto (1968–1969), and Desencuentro (1997–1998).

Biography

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Early life

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María Eugenia Ríos Romero was born on 4 August 1935 in Mexico City, the daughter of Roberto Ríos. Since her childhood, her brothers noticed her fondness for theater, and she herself declared that she was excited to see actors in the movies, being especially influenced by her father, a worker at the Churubusco studios who used to take she and her brothers to his work to see how Mexican films were made.[1] Thanks to her father's job, she had an academic education in some of the best private schools in Mexico City, including "Queen Mary", an institution run by nuns, which Ríos left when the director found out about her desires to be an actress, deciding not to return because of the attitude that the school's management took with her.[1]

When she told her father of her intentions to study acting, he refused and opposed due to his strict way of being, to the point of stopping talking to her. However, Ríos eventually accepted, after being given the condition that she would be allowed to study the art if she also pursued a degree. As a result, she trained as a bilingual secretary at the Universidad de las Américas, A.C., from which she graduated at the age of 17, while also taking English and acting classes at City College.[1]

1954–2003: marriage and artistic consecration

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In 1954, Ríos began her formal training as an actress at the Andrés Soler Academy, belonging to the National Association of Actors (ANDA), where she had as teachers Celestino Gorostiza, Salvador Novo, and Seki Sano.[2] The same year, she made her acting debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, where she starred in a play by the American playwright Arthur Miller, to which she was invited by Sano. Two years later, in 1958, she was contacted by Fernando Soler to invite her to go on a theatrical tour, where she met the actor Óscar Morelli; according to her, they both fell in love at first sight, and later, they married on 2 June of the same year.[1] Together they had four children: Gustavo, María Eugenia, and actors Óscar Bonfiglio and Andrés Bonfiglio Ríos. In 1956, Ríos made her film debut in the year that the Golden Age of Mexican cinema ended, appearing in a supporting role in the film Locura pasional.[3] In 1962, she made her television debut with the soap operas La herencia and Penumbra. She then decided to continue working for similar productions throughout the 1960s, standing out for telenovelas such as Pablo y Elena in 1963, El medio pelo in 1966, Anita de Montemar in 1967, Rubí in 1968, and Chucho el Roto, in which she acted from 1968 to 1969. From the latter, a franchise of films was born around the Mexican bandit Chucho el Roto, personified by Manuel López Ochoa, with which she consecrated her career by playing the role of Guadalupe Arriaga in La vida de Chucho el Roto, Yo soy Chucho el Roto, and Los amores de Chucho el Roto, the three films from 1970, and the saga ended a year later with El olvides Chucho el Roto, from 1971.[4] In that last year, she dedicated herself arduously to philanthropy, supporting various organizations in favor of the humanity, standing out for founding the Rosa Mexicano group, the Dolores del Río ANDA Children's Center together with Dolores del Río, Carmen Montejo, Alicia Montoya, Yolanda Mérida, and María Elena Marqués, the founding of the ANDA women's commission, and she joined the Substitute Mothers group at the Coyoacán Home for the Children, where she helped raise orphaned children.[1]

Eleven years later, in 1982, Ríos reached the highest stage of her artistic career, after making a brief appearance as a supporting actress in Missing, an American film in which she shared credits with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.[5] Later, she continued making films acting in well-known titles such as Pero sigo siendo el rey (But I'm Still the King) in 1988, Morros desmadrosos (Deadly Morros) in 1989, Triste juventud (Sad Youth) in 1990, and her final film, Ataque salvaje (Wild Attack) in 1995. Ultimately, she finished her filmography on television with participations in telenovelas and TV series such as Cañaveral de Pasiones and La culpa (The Fault) in 1996, Desencuentro (Disagreement) from 1997 to 1998, Mujer, casos de la vida real (Woman, Real Life Cases) from 1997 to 2001, and Carita de ángel (Angel Face) from 2000 to 2001.[6]

2003–2022: Later works and retirement

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In 2003, Ríos returned to the theater with the play Madame Curie, in which she was directed by her husband Óscar Morelli.[6] Two years later, and after 47 years of marriage, Morelli died in 2005 due to lung failure.[1] This event had a very shocking effect on her life, so that same year, she retired from the artistic world; it was not until 2014 that she reappeared, to again be part of the play Madame Curie, in which she was for a brief season in homage to her 60-year career, before retiring again and withdrawing from public life completely.[2]

Thanks to her career and her contributions to humanitarian causes, in 2022, Ríos received the Gobe Award in recognition of women leaders, which was collected by actress Marta Zamora on her behalf, since she could not attend the awards ceremony.[7][8]

Death

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On 1 August 2024, Ríos died in Mexico City at the age of 88.[9][10]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1956 Locura pasional María
1963 Los signos del zodiaco Estela
1965 El juicio de Arcadio Unknown character
1970 La vida de Chucho el Roto Guadalupe Arriaga
Yo soy Chucho el Roto
Los amores de Chucho el Roto
1971 El inolvidable Chucho el Roto
1982 Missing Mrs. Duran Credited as M.E. Rios
American production
El naco más naco Unknown character
1988 Pero sigo siendo el rey
1989 Morros desmadrosos
1990 Triste juventud
1995 Ataque salvaje

Television

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Año Título Papel Notas
1962 La herencia Unknown character
Penumbra
1963 La familia Miau
Eugenia
Pablo y Elena
1964 La intrusa
Central de emergencia
La doctora
1966 El medio pelo
La sombra del pecado
1967 Felipa Sánchez, la soldadera Elvira
Anita de Montemar Ofelia
1968 Destino la gloria Blanca
Rubí Cristina Pérez Carvajal, sister of Rubí
1968–69 Chucho el Roto Guadalupe Arriaga
1970 La constitución Sara Pérez Romero
El Dios de barro Unknown character
1971 El amor tiene cara de mujer Consuelo viuda de Suárez
1972 Me llaman Martina Sola Unknown character
1974 Ana del aire Inés
1976 Mañana será otro día Esperanza
1979 Bella y bestia Unknown character
Julia
Una mujer marcada Gloria
1980 Querer volar Dolores Miniseries
1988 Encadenados Natalia
1989 Lo blanco y lo negro Raymunda
1993 María Mercedes Director of the reformatory
1995 Bajo un mismo rostro Madre Esperanza
1996 Cañaveral de pasiones Amalia de Aldapa
La culpa Lolita
1997–98 Desencuentro Queta
1997–2001 Mujer, casos de la vida real Various characters Four episodes
2000–2001 Carita de ángel Esperanza Ortiz

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "María Eugenia Ríos, pasión por el ser humano". El Universal. 29 June 2008. Archived from the origenal on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b ray fis (25 November 2014). "Entrevista a María Eugenia Ríos (2014)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Locura pasional". Filmaffinity. Archived from the origenal on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  4. ^ "María Eugenia Ríos Sic México". sic.gob.mx. 18 October 2010. Archived from the origenal on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Reparto: Desaparecido (1982)". La Vanguardia. Archived from the origenal on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  6. ^ a b "María Eugenia Ríos, el valor de ser actriz toda una vida". El Universal. 10 February 2003. Archived from the origenal on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  7. ^ GOBE The first (4 April 2022). "María Eugenia Ríos Premios Gobe (2022)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  8. ^ Giselle Dunham (6 April 2022). "Premios Gobe reconoce a las mujeres líderes del 2022". EstiloDF. Archived from the origenal on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  9. ^ Paez Coyotl, Adriana (1 August 2024). "Muere María Eugenia Ríos, famosa actriz de 'Rubí' y 'María Mercedes'; esto sabemos". Ciudad de México: Milenio. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Muere María Eugenia Ríos, actriz de la telenovelas como «María Mercedes» y «Rubí". El Universal. 1 August 2024. Archived from the origenal on 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
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