Otilia Larrañaga

Otilia Larrañaga Villarreal (3 November 1931 – 6 October 2021) was a Mexican dancer and actress who participated in classic Mexican films and also on stage and television.

Biography Larrañaga studied dance with her uncle Ignacio Larrañaga and later ballet with Lettie H. Carroll. From 1947 to 1950, she was a member of Carroll's dance group and participated in the seasons of the Palacio de Bellas Artes' National Opera in Mexico City.

She met her first husband, singer and actor Antonio "Tony" Aguilar, at the XEW-TV station in 1952. Larrañaga and Aguilar performed together in the films Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1953) and Reventa de esclavas (1954).

She obtained her first starring role in the film La flecha envenenada (1957) with Gastón Santos.

In 1957, she received a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Youth Performance for the film Caras nuevas (1956).

She married Aguilar in 1958, but the couple divorced the following year. In 1968 she began a relationship with actor Rogelio Guerra, with whom she had a daughter named Hildegard. The couple never married and separated in 1974.

Filmography

Private Secretary (1952) No te ofendas, Beatriz (1953) Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1953) The Price of Living (1954) Reventa de esclavas Maldita ciudad (1954) Las viudas del cha-cha-cha (1955) Caras nuevas La flecha envenenada La locura del rock and roll