ALICIA BONET: BIOGRAPHY AND MAIN FILMS - BIOGRAPHIES - 2025

Alicia Bonet (1947) is a Mexican film and telenovela actress who began her career in the 1950s, and since then has been considered a celebrity in her country. Its beginnings were in a small children's theater company.

He has participated in films such as Hasta el viento se fear, Guadalajara en verano, Bachelorette party, El scapular or Rubí, among many others. Likewise, she has also played roles in some telenovelas such as A man is sought, Love is not how they paint it or Viviana.

A young Alicia Bonet. Image taken from: www.tapatalk.com

She married actor Juan Ferrara, famous for his performances in soap operas of the 80s and 90s. With him she had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce and she remarried actor Claudio Brook, who died in nineteen ninety five.

Bonet played many characters during his artistic career, given the versatility he always showed on stage, this is how he was able to record horror films, comedy, drama or any other genre.

Biography

Early years

Alicia Bonet was born in Mexico City on April 26, 1947. She began her acting career in a youth theater in the 1950s. She was married to fellow actor Juan Ferrara, and two children were born from that union, Juan Carlos Bonet. and Mauricio Bonet.

Apparently, Juan and Alicia met on the set of the movie Mommy's Problems from 1970. A film that tells the story of a widow, mother of four daughters who has to deal with home and family problems. Later, Alicia and Juan Ferrara divorced.

Her second nuptials were contracted to fellow actor Claudio Brook. From that union, two sons were born: Arturo and Gabriel. Claudio died in 1995 from stomach cancer.

Tragedy also came to Alicia Bonet's life when, in 2004, her son Gabriel committed suicide at the age of 29. Official sources confirmed that Gabriel jumped from the fourth floor of his building.

Productions

Films

- Operation Carom (1968)

- Requiem for a Scoundrel (1968)

- The angels of Puebla (1968)

- The Scapular (1968)

- At last alone (1969)

- Chase and Reach Them (1969)

- When the children leave (1969)

- Cross of love (1970)

- Ruby (1970)

- Mommy's Problems (1970)

- Even the wind is afraid (1968-2007)

- Tampico (1972)

- It happened in Jalisco (1972)

TV soaps

- La Celestina (1968)

- Viviana (1978)

- Lady (1998)

- Love is not as they paint it (2000)

- Like in the movies (2001)

- The old women are marching (2001)

- A Man Wanted (2007)

Top Movies

The Scapular

One of the films that brought fame and recognition to Alicia Bonet, who already by those years had experience in theater and small roles.

In it, she played the role of Rosario, a young woman who falls in love with Pedro, one of the wearers of the scapular. Apparently, the scapular has powers to safeguard the life of anyone who claims to be its rightful owner.

Thus, it has been passed from generation to generation for years. It also has a sinister power that is put to the test in the film, thanks to special effects from the golden age of Mexican cinema.

Ruby

Rubí is a romantic story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché. In it, Alicia Bonet was in charge of playing Maribel de la Fuente, Rubí's best friend, a beautiful but very shy woman and somewhat withdrawn due to a disability.

This plot adapted for the cinema is actually a novel produced at different times and in different versions. Alicia Bonet had the opportunity to interpret it for a film format, being directed and adapted by Carlos Enrique Taboada.

Even the wind is afraid

Another masterful rendition of Alicia Bonet was in Hasta el viento is afraid, a 1968 film directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada that tells the story of some young women who live in a female boarding school where strange events are happening.

Alicia plays Claudia, the leader of a group of friends who begin to see and feel hidden and evil entities within the boarding school. All the other girls have gone on vacation, but they are punished and have to stay at boarding school without being able to enjoy their vacation and that is where it all begins.

In 2007 a new version of this tape was produced. Today the film is considered one of the classics of Mexican horror cinema.

Operation Carambola

In this movie, a fake security agent hires Capulina as his assistant to prepare for the carom operation. However, Capulina discovers that this is a criminal and decides to end the organization.

In this production, Alicia Bonet performs nothing more and nothing less than with the famous actor Gaspar Henaine "Capulina" and with the emblematic Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito".

Like in the cinema

Alicia Bonet played mother Maria in this soap opera. Her character was the mother superior of the boarding school where the protagonist's sister, Lorena Herrera, had to go to study.

In the scenes, she was frequently seen giving wise advice to the community. It was one of the last roles Alicia played before retiring from the world of cinema.

At present, Alicia Bonet is outside the screens and the cinema. Apparently, the death of her son Gabriel plunged her into a deep sadness that prevented her from returning to work. Today it is difficult to access her to interview her or find out about her personal life.

In 2014 he gave an emotional performance in a chapter of Lo que callamos las mujeres, a TV Azteca series called "An old piece of furniture covered in dust."

In the chapter, Alicia Bonet plays an elderly grandmother who is verbally abused by her daughter. She considers her a burden and useless, and permanently prevents her from seeing her grandchildren, causing her to suffer from deep depression.

References

1. Biography of Alicia Bonet. (2019). Taken from tapatalk.com
2. The scapular (1968). (2019). Taken from www.filmaffinity.com
3. Rubí - Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1970 (2019). Taken from hallucinecinefago.wordpress.com
4. TV, G., Vicens, J., Rivelles, A., Cordero, J., Andere, J., & Crevenna, A. et al. (2019). Breast problems. Taken from elmundo.es
5. Alicia Bonet. (2019). Taken from esacademic.com