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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1901-08-03

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Fanny Schiller

Biography

Fanny Schiller Hernández (1897–1971) was an award-winning Mexican character actress, television star and also acted in operettas and musicals in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two best supporting actress awards from the Ariels and was nominated for two additional films. She was a social activist, creating the Actor's Union and inspiring the creation of “Rosa Mexicano”. She was accomplished at dubbing and was the voice of many animated characters as well as the official voice of several other notable Mexican actresses.

Known for

Savage Sunday

Savage Sunday

Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.

La infame

La infame

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.

María Isabel

María Isabel

A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity

Felicidad

Felicidad

A middle-aged professor, disillusioned with his life and struggling through a midlife crisis, becomes infatuated with a much younger woman named Emma.

El norteño

El norteño

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

Locura pasional

Locura pasional

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

Cielo Rojo

Cielo Rojo

Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.

He Who Died of Love

He Who Died of Love

Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.

Las engañadas

Las engañadas

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.

La monja alférez

La monja alférez

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

Sor Ye-yé

Sor Ye-yé

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

El gran espectáculo

El gran espectáculo

The Crows are Grieving

The Crows are Grieving

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

La hermana impura

La hermana impura

Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.

The Naked Woman

The Naked Woman

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.