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 OneEyed 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 LatinaHispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award when she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954s 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
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