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Lupita Tovar

1910 - 2016

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Guadalupe Natalia Tovar Sullivan (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016), known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula. It was filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. She also starred in the film Santa (1932), one of the first Mexican sound films, and one of the first commercial Spanish-language sound films. At the time of her death, she was the oldest living actress and among the last surviving stars of the Golden Ages of both Mexican cinema and Hollywood. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lupita Tovar is the 3,508th most popular actor (up from 4,507th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Mexico (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Mexican Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lupita Tovar ranks 3,508 out of 13,578Before her are Vanessa Hudgens, Viktor Sukhorukov, Chris Vance, Bessie Love, Yvan Attal, and August Diehl. After her are Marsha Mason, Sharmila Tagore, Belinda Lee, Alan Ritchson, Betty Gilpin, and Anna Kashfi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Lupita Tovar ranks 210Before her are Lee Wallard, Cahit Arf, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Carlo Ceresoli, Peter Pears, and Fei Xiaotong. After her are Erkki Aaltonen, Herminio Masantonio, Douglas Bader, Gus Hall, Gaston Defferre, and Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 2016, Lupita Tovar ranks 268Before her are Edmonde Charles-Roux, Paul Kantner, Sharon Jones, Vladimir Zeldin, Jon Polito, and Ioannis Grivas. After her are Leonid Zhabotinsky, Lúcio Lara, Sushil Koirala, Bill Mollison, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and László Sárosi.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Lupita Tovar ranks 191 out of 729Before her are José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Eugenio Derbez (1961), José María Bocanegra (1787), Miguel Pro (1891), Julio César Chávez (1962), and Juan de Oñate (1550). After her are Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902), Tomás Balcázar (1931), Alfonso Reyes (1889), Ignacio López Tarso (1925), Rosie Reyes (1939), and Arturo Ripstein (1943).

Among ACTORS In Mexico

Among actors born in Mexico, Lupita Tovar ranks 38Before her are Carmen Salinas (1939), Ana Martín (1945), Alfonso Arau (1932), Claudio Brook (1927), Manuel Ojeda (1940), and Eugenio Derbez (1961). After her are Ignacio López Tarso (1925), Lupita Nyong'o (1983), Arturo de Córdova (1908), Diana Bracho (1944), Maite Perroni (1983), and Kate del Castillo (1972).