Lupita Tovar

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Guadalupe Natalia Tovar Sullivan (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016), known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress. She is best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director; and her leading-lady role in the British-made Buster Keaton feature The Invader (1935, released in the United States as An Old Spanish Custom). Tovar also starred in the film Santa (1932), one of the first Mexican sound films, and one of the first commercial Spanish-language sound films. After dying at the age of 106 in 2016, she was recorded as the oldest Mexican actress, before being surpassed in 2026 by Dolores Muñoz Ledo, who died at 107.

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