Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 - February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico. Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her collage studies her parents offered her a trip to the United States but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months. After arriving in Mexico she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943 she obtained a role in the film Resurrección directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and then Chano Ureta who changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo. In Venezuela she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans. In television she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s. For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias. Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City. She was 87.

Filmography

• Love Without Makeup — Verónica Vda. de Velázquez
• 2006Las Ladrilleras
• 2002Corazones rotos
• 2002The Faces of the Moon — Mariana Toscano
• Adventures in Time — Margarita Rosales de Flores
• Amigos X Siempre — Doña Julia Ruvalcaba vda. de Vidal
• 2000The Magic Hour
• Serafín — Gigi (voz)
• Te Sigo Amando — Paula Garza Vda. de Torres-Quintero
• Mágica juventud — Leonor Jiménez Vda. de Retana/Pepita
• Tres generaciones — Director
• Den of Wolves — Esperanza Mandujano
• El Engaño — Selene
• Juana Iris — María Luisa
• 1985La Casa Que Arde de Noche — Celia
• 1984Ni Chana Ni Juana
• 1984¡Mamá, soy Paquito! — Mrs. Falcon
• El Maleficio — Doña Emilia González Vda. de Castellanos
• 1983The Death of a Stallion
• 1983The Hex — Emilia
• 1982Burdel — Madre de Juan
• 1982El Bronco
• 1982In the Storm — Doña Toña
• 1981The Great Victory
• 1980Corrupción oficial
• 1979En la trampa — Laura
• 1978Los hijos de Sanchez
• 1978The Children of Sanchez — Aunt Guadalupe
• 1977Dinastía de la muerte — Mother
• 1977Prisión de mujeres — Marta/ La Macabra
• 1976Coronation — Doña Elisa - Abuela
• 1976El Rey
• 1976Resigned for Reasons of Health — María
• Paloma — Gloria Nava
• 1974Omen — Doña Agueda
• 1973The Cubs — Mrs. Cuéllar
• 1973The Prophet Mimi — Magdalena, prostituta vecina
• 1972Doña Macabra — Demetria
• 1972Magdalena’s True Vocation — Zoyla
• 1972The Crazy Virgins — Elena Guardiola
• 1971They Call Him Marcado — Remedios
• 1969Adventures of Juliancito — Tía Claudia
• 1969Memories of the Future
• 1969Perverse Doll — Tía Jenny
• 1968Sor Ye-yé — Madre superiora
• 1968The Adolescents
• 1966La recta final — Martha Maretti
• 1964El río de las ánimas
• 1963Las Troyanas
• 1961Los Jóvenes — Rosa, Madre de Alicia
• 1958El potro salvaje
• 1957Dos diablitos en apuros
• 1957The Vampire — Eloisa
• 1956Angel Face
• 1956La pequeña enemiga
• 1955El plagiario
• 1955Estafa de amor
• 1955The Suspect — Señora Adela Perez
• 1954La infame — Luisa Barrios de Benet
• 1953Cuatro horas antes de morir — Marga
• 1953Legítima defensa
• 1953Light in the High Plains
• 1953Misericordia — Juliana
• 1953Remember to Live — Leonora
• 1953Reportaje — Feminist Nurse
• 1952Sor Alegría
• 1951Engagement ring
• 1951Entre abogados te veas — La Víctima (Catalina Prado)
• 1951In the Palm of Your Hand — Clara Stein
• 1951Lodo y Armiño
• 1951Monte de piedad — María Franco Ruiz
• 1951Mujeres sin mañana — Marta
• 1951Todos son mis hijos!...
• 1951¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? — Yolanda
• 1949Bamba — Tirsa Mendieta
• 1949Cita con la muerte — Carmen
• 1949Late Afternoon — Lucia
• 1949Secreto entre mujeres — Marta
• 1948We the Poor — Yolanda la Tísica
• 1947A media luz — Susana
• 1946Crimen en la alcoba — Martha
• 1946Yo fui una usurpadora
• 1945Entre hermanos — Pilar
• 1945La señora de enfrente
• 1944Caminito alegre
• 1944El camino de los gatos
• 1943Ave sin nido
• 1943No matarás — Cristina Montes

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Las Lunas del Auditorio — Self
• 2000Mimí Derba — Self