known professionally as Carmen Sevilla was a Spanish actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest-paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s.
As an actress, she had leading roles in numerous films, including Imperial Violets (1952), Academy Award nominee Vengeance (1958), Don Juan (1956), and Searching for Monica (1962). She also had supporting roles in English-language epic films including King of Kings (1961) and Antony and Cleopatra (1972).
Who is Carmen Sevilla’s first husband Augusto Algueró?
Carmen Sevilla married composer and conductor Augusto Algueró, whom she met in 1956 during The Taming of the Shrew filming on 23 February 1961 in the Zaragoza’s Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar. Their only son, Augusto José, was born in 1964.
The couple divorced in 1974, and Carmen Sevilla remarried in 1985 to Vicente Patuel, until his heart attack death in 2000. As of today, it was made public that Carmen Sevilla was hospitalized in serious condition at the Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid, where she died the following day from complications of Alzheimer’s. She was 92.
