The former Spanish actress, singer, and dancer Mara del Carmen Garcia Galisteo, best known by her stage name Carmen Sevilla, was born on October 16, 1930.
She began her career in the 1940s and ascended to stardom in the Spanish film industry, receiving some of the highest wages up until the 1970s. She began working for the three major Spanish networks as a television presenter in 1991 when she was sixty years old and continued until her retirement in 2010.
Imperial Violets (1952), Vengeance (1958), Don Juan (1956), and Searching for Monica (1962), which was nominated for an Academy Award, are just a few of the films in which she portrayed the lead role. She has been in supporting roles in English-language epic films like King of Kings (1961) and Antony and Cleopatra (1972).
Carmen Sevilla family: husband
Carmen Sevilla married conductor and composer Augusto Algueró on February 23, 1961, in Zaragoza’s Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, where they had first met in 1956 while filming The Taming of the Shrew. Carmen Sevilla married Vicente Patuel once more in 1985 after divorcing him in 1974. In 2000, a heart attack claimed his life.
Carmen Sevilla family: children
Carmen Sevilla’s lone son, Augusto José, was born in 1964.
Carmen Sevilla family: parents
Carmen Sevilla’s parents are Florentina Galisteo Ramrez and Antonio Garca Padilla.
Carmen Sevilla family: siblings
Carmen Sevilla has two further sisters, whose names are still unknown.
