Lina Marín

Lina Marín (August 12, 1944 – June 23, 1989) was a Mexican actress of Zapotec descent, known for her performance in A Man Called Horse and for her starring role opposite Gaspar Henaine "Capulina" in El bueno para nada (1973).

Biography Marín was born Felipa Cartas Orozco in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on August 12, 1944, in the municipality of Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca.

She had prominent supporting roles in La marcha a Zacatecas and El último pistolero (both 1969) before playing a Sioux Indian named Thorn Rose in A Man Called Horse (1970), the film that gave her international exposure.

She also acted in Espérame en Siberia, vida mía (1971), with Mauricio Garcés; Chanoc contra el tigre y el vampiro (1972), with Gregorio Casal; Tacos al carbon (1972), with Vicente Fernández; El rey de Acapulco (1972), with Capulina; and El Payo - un hombre contra el mundo (1972), with Jorge Rivero.

Her greatest achievement in Mexican cinema was her performance in her second film co-starring Capulina, El bueno para nada (1973), in which she played the main female role: María, Capulina's Native Mexican girlfriend who works as a maid in the house of Susana Alexander and Pancho Córdova. Her performance showed that, in addition to being a great beauty, she also had talent for comedy.

She returned to acting in the mid-1980s with a supporting role in the film Lo que importa es vivir (1987).

She died of breast cancer on June 23, 1989 at age 44, and is survived by two children.

In 2016, she was honored with a mural and a short film in Unión Hidalgo, her hometown.

Selected filmography