Profile of Silvia Pasquel on Famous Like Me

Silvia Banquells Pinal (born October 13, 1949), better known as Silvia Pasquel, is a famous Mexican actress. She is a native of Guaymas.

Pasquel was born into a show business family: her father,Rafael Banquells, was also a famous Mexican actor and director. Her mother is Silvia Pinal, a very well known actress across Latin America and Spain. She chose the artistic last name "Pasquel" as a mixture of her father and mother's last names.

Pasquel's siblings are famous too: her sisters are actresses Viridiana Alatriste and Rocio Banquells, and singer Alejandra Guzman. Her brother, Enrique Guzman Jr., is a musician. Both Alejandra and Enrique Guzman Jr. were a product of her mother's second marriage, to Mexican teen idol Enrique Guzman. Viridiana Alatriste died as a consequence of a car accident.

At the age of nineteen, Pasquel did her first movie, "El Despertar del Lobo" ("The Wolf's Awakening"). That movie was made in 1968, year in which Pasquel became very famous in Mexico. She followed her first film with her telenovela debut, in "Los Inconformes" ("The Uncomforted Ones").

In 1969, she participated in a movie about wrestling, starring alongaside Santo and his wrestling enemy, Blue Demon, in "Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida" ("Santo versus Blue Demon at the Atlantida"). She participated in two other films in 1969, "Una Mujer Honesta" ("A Honest Woman"), and "La Casa del Farol Rojo" ("The Redlight House").

The decade of the 1970s was a very busy one for Pasquel, as she starred in multiple films, soap operas, and even in magazine soaps, which were popular in Latin America then. In 1970, she starred in "Me he de Comer esa Tuna" ("I Will eat That Tuna"), "La Cruz de Mariza Cruzes" ("Mariza Cruzes' Cross") and in "El Mariachi", the only telenovela she did that year.

In 1971, she played "Gianna Donatti" in the telenovela that launched Lucia Mendez to fame: "Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse" ("Italian Girl Coming to Get Married"). That soap opera was a major hit, and Pasquel followed her work there with another telenovela, "La Recogida" ("The Unwelcome One"). Her one movie in 1971 was "Secreto de Confesion" ("A Secret to Confess").

1972 proved to be a relatively easy year for Pasquel, whose fame had already spread to the rest of Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States. She participated in only one movie and no soap operas. Her movie that year was named "Cinco Mil Dolares de Recompensa" ("Five Thousand dollars Reward").

She participated alongside Chabelo, a very popular children's actor of the era, in 1973's "Chabelo y Pepito contra los Monstruos" ("Chabelo and Pepito Against Monsters"). This was followed by another telenovela, "El Amor Tiene Cara de Mujer" ("Love has a Woman's Face"). She finished 1973 playing "Maritza" in "Mi Rival".

Pasquel did two soap operas in 1974, each of which proved to be important in her career: in "Ha LLegado una Intrusa" (, "An Intruder has Arrived", remade during the 1990s as "La Intrusa"), she played two roles in the same drama for the first time in her career, acting as twins "Veronina and Hilda Moreno". "Mundo de Juguetes" ("Toy World"), meanwhile, became one of the most successful Mexican telenovelas of the era.

After "El Milagro de Vivir", a 1975 soap opera, Pasquel began slowing her on screen work rate, and she took 1976 off, to return in 1977, with another soap opera, named "Humillados y Ofendidos" ("Humilliated and Offended"). Once again, she took a full year off the screens in 1978, and returned in 1979 with a movie named "Johnny Chicano" and a soap named "J.J. Juez" ("J.J. Judge").

By the 1980s, Pasquel was already a family woman, a fact which collaborated in her slowing down her screen career even more. She participated in 1980's "Al Rojo Vivo" (which could be loosely translated to "Very Red"), in 1982's "El Amor Nunca Muere" ("Love Never Dies"), 1983's "Cuando los Hijos se Van" ("When Children Leave"), and 1987's "Los Anos Perdidos" ("The Lost Years").

She took off three more years after that, returning in 1990 to participate in one episode of the popular television show, Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real, which is hosted by her mother. The chapter where she participated had to do with a real life story of a rape victim. Soon after, she made another telenovela, "Dias sin Luna" ("Days Without a Moon"). Her return to soap operas was followed by her return to film, with two movies made in 1991: "Politico por Error" ("Politician by Mistake") and "Asalto" ("Robbery").

During 1990, a teen oriented soap opera, Alcanzar una Estrella" ("Reaching a Star"), with Eduardo Capetillo, had become a major hit on Mexican television. Pasquel acted in that production's 1991 sequel, "Alcanzar una Estrella II", where she acted alongside Capetillo and a buddying Puerto Rican star named Ricky Martin.

She followed that with 1993's "Las Secretas Intenciones" ("Secret Intentions"). and 1995's comedy film, "El Superman....Dilon Dos" ("The Super....lacy one, Part Two"). In 1996, she participated in "Para Toda la Vida" ("Forever"), which was another telenovela. She returned once again in 1998's "Huracan", where she played "Caridad", and as "Zulema", in 2000's ("Mi Destino Eres Tu" ("You Are my Destiny").

In 2001, she participated in another major Mexican telenovela hit, "El Manantial" ("The Cascade"). That same year, she worked as "Silvia" in "Aventuras en el Tiempo" ("Time Adventures"). During 2002, she participated in a very large number of episodes of "Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real".

Her latest screen work, as of 2005, has been 2004's "Amarte es mi Pecado" ("My Sin is Loving You").

Pasquel has been married twice. Her daughter, Stephanie Salas, is also a famous telenovela actress in Mexico.

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