TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Google is showing a Doodle for Katy Jurado. She was born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Today it is the 94th Birthday of Katy Jurado and is being celebrated in a few countries.

Jurado studied at a school run by nuns in the Guadalupe Inn neighborhood in Mexico City, and later studied to be a bilingual secretary.

As a teenager, she was invited by producers and filmmakers to work as an actress, among them Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernández, who offered her a role in his first movie The Isle of Passion (1941). Although her godfather was Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz, her parents never gave their consent.

Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry.

Her talent at depicting a range of characters helped to expand the parts available to Mexican actresses in Hollywood today.

She died on July 5th, 2002 at Cuernavaca in Mexico.

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