Angélica Chaín
Angélica Chahín Martínez (born 24 May 1956) better known by her stage name Angélica Chaín is a retired Mexican actress and vedette.
Early life[edit]
Angelica Chain is of Lebanese origin.[1] Her surname Chain is a Arabic word which usually refers to the Arab people, mostly Palestinians who settled in Mexico in the beginning of the 20th century.[2]
Career[edit]
Angélica Chaín is known for her role as an actress in several productions of the Mexican genre known as ficheras cinema or Mexican sex comedy. She rose to fame during 1970s as dancer, model, actress and vedette. She has been featured in several photo comics during this time. She became famous for her roles as a femme fatale in movies like Girls Office, Red Sunset, the Shadow of Divorce and the Bad Life of a Good Girl.[3]
She was part of various films, mainly comedies and thrillers, made between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s.[4] Due to her charms, she became one of the sex symbol of Mexican cinema.[5]
She also posed for several famous Mexican magazines of her time:
- Fémina, No. 6, mayo de 1973
- Cinelandia, Nro. 444, octubre de 1974
- Chicas, Nro. 352, 1975 Dilema
- Estrellas de Cinelandia, Nro. 510, 1975
- Cita, 1979, La mala vida de una chica buena
- Cita de Lujo, noviembre de 1979, A la sombra del Divorcio
- Su otro Yo, diciembre de 1979
- Club Privado, Año 3, No. 11, noviembre de 1983
- Adan, No 9, abril de 1984
- Revista Impacto, No. 1964, 1987
- Chistes y Chicas, No. 123, 1990
At the beginning of her career at the age of 17 at the Teatro de la Ciudad as a vedette, she used the stage name "Liz Chahín".[6]
Filmography[edit]
Movies[edit]
- Santo y Blue Demon contra el Doctor Frankenstein (1974) as Lilia
- Me caíste del cielo (1975) as Gabriela
- El padrino... es mi compadre (1975)
- El alegre divorciado (1976)
- La virgen de Guadalupe (1976) as Doña Blanca
- Cuando tejen las arañas (1977) as Claudia
- Deseos (1977)
- Lo veo y no lo creo (1977)
- Mil millas al sur (1978) as Diana
- Mataron a Camelia la Texana (1978) as Camelia
- El latigo (1978)
- Matar por matar (1979)
- Cadena perpetua (1979) as Rosa Martínez
- El sexo me da risa (1979)
- Muñecas de medianoche (1979)
- Memorias de un visitador médico (El sexólogo) / Mírame con ojos pornográficos / Las insaciables (1980) as la Dra. San Román
- Burlesque (1980)
- Para usted jefa (1980)
- Rigo es amor (1980) as Arcadia
- El vecindario (1981)
- Como México no hay dos (1981)
- Profesor eróticus (1981) as Helga
- Las siete cucas (1981) as Cuca Remedios
- El ratero de la vecindad (1982) as Rosita
- La pulquería 2 (1982)
- Las computadoras (1982) as Mayte/María Teresa Álvarez
- 41 el hombre perfecto (1982)
- Las vedettes (1983)
- El vecindario 2 (1983)
- Chile Picante (1983) (segmento "La infidelidad")
- Buenas, y con... movidas (1983) as Piadosa
- Perros salvajes (1984) as Daniela
- Macho que ladra no muerde (1984)
- El día de los albañiles: Los maestros del amor (1984) as Beatriz
- Escuela de placer (1984)
- El sexo de los ricos (1984) as Margaret Seton
- Entre ficheras anda el diablo - La pulquería 3 (1984) as Perla
- La buena vida - Paraíso erótico (1985)
- El día de los albañiles 2 (1985) as Beatriz
- Barrio salvaje (1985)
- El ratero de la vecindad II / La banda de la Carcacha as Rosita (1985)
- Ratas de la ciudad (1986) as Rita González
- Los verduleros (1986) as Soledad
- Polícía de narcóticos (1986) as Albina
- Destrampados en Los Ángeles (1987)
- Casa de muñecas para adultos as Silvia Corzo (1987)
- El día de los albañiles 3 (1988) as Beatriz
- El solitario indomable (1988) as Eva
- Rumbera caliente (1989)
- El diario íntimo de una cabaretera (1989) as Jessica y como Angélica
- La tentación (1991)
- Hembras de tierra caliente (1991)
Television[edit]
- Pecado de amor (1978) as Lina
- Extraños caminos del amor (1981) as Olga
- Al final del arco iris (1982) as Myriam
- El maleficio (1983) as Cinthia
- Juana Iris (1985) as Marcela
- Seducción (1986) as Roxana
Personal life[edit]
She married businessman Ricardo Martí García and later married the controversial Mexican billionaire Enrique Molina Sobrino. On 27 October 1994, she created the Private Assistance Institution "Fundación Angie". She currently lives in the United States.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Ver Diccionario enciclopédico de Mexicanos de origen Libanés y de otros pueblos del Levante, Patricia Jacobs Barquet, Ediciones del Ermitaño, 2000, p. 110 y 124
- ↑ "Apellido Chaín de ascendencia Arabe". Pensamientocritico.org. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ↑ "Angélica Chain protagonizó Muchachas de oficina y Rojo atardecer e inspiró las caracterizaciones de mujer fuertes como Teresa y Rubí". Fotonovelas.com. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ↑ "Angélica Chain". IMDb. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ↑ Ver Su otro Yo (revista), Las eróticas de los 70's, diciembre de 1979
- ↑ Culturas Populares, Num. 13-14, julio de 2008 - Febrero de 2009, CONARTE
- ↑ "Fundación Angie, I. A. P." Archived from the original on 23 December 2014.
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