Katy Jurado

Katy Jurado, born Maria Cristina Stele Marcela Jury Garcia, was a Mexican stage and screen actress.

Jury had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood " becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, der Spencer Tracy in "Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in" One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman (High Noon), Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) und John Huston (Under the Volcano).

Jury made seventy one films during her career. She became the first Latina/Hispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award when she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954's "Broken Lance" and was the first to win Golden Globe. Like many Latin actors, she was typecast-to-play-ethnic rollen in American films. By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films; sometimes she also sang and danced.