Katy Jurado (January 16, 1924 - July 5, 2002) was a Mexican actress. Born MarÃa Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado GarcÃa in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she started her career in Hollywood and moved back to continue filming in Mexico.
Her role in the Mexican movie Nosotros Los Pobres opposite the well-known Mexican actor Pedro Infante brought her fame. She subsequently appeared in many Hollywood movies including The Bullfighter and the Lady, High Noon , Arrowhead, Broken Lance (for which she received an Academy Award nomination), The Racers, Trial, Trapeze, The Badlanders, One Eyed Jacks, Barabbas, Stay Away, Joe (opposite Elvis Presley), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Children of Sanchez, and Under the Volcano. Her last film performance was in the Mexican film Un Secreto de Esperanza.
Jurado was married twice, first to Mexican actor Victor Velazquez with whom she had two children and secondly to actor Ernest Borgnine 1959-1963.
She died of kidney failure and pulmonary disease in 2002, at the age of 78 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
She is one of only two Mexican actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award. Salma Hayek recently shared the same honor.
High Noon (1952)
