Carrasco, Enriqueta Queta

(1913-1996)

   character actress who followed her sister Ada into Mexican cinema, making her screen debut when she was already in her late forties (she had done television work in the 1950s, however). One of her first substantial roles was in Alejandro Galindo's La mente y el crimen (1961). After the death of Sara García, the long-time "grandmother of Mexico," Queta Carrasco stepped into this slot, playing sweet (and sometimes not so sweet) grannies in over 100 films and in telenovelas and other TV shows, up until a few months before her death.