The Mexican actress and singer Irma Serrano, known as
La Tigresa
, died this Wednesday at the age of 89, according to the National Association of Interpreters on the social network Twitter.
Serrano became one of the leading artists of ranchera music in the 1960s, from where she made her way into the world of acting on film and television.
The actress Irma SerranoIrma Serrano / Instagram
He worked with some of the most important interpreters of Mexican cinema, in films such as
Las amantes del señor de la noche
,
Noches de Cabaret
or
Santo contra la Tigresa.
In 1973, he acquired the Virginia Fábregas Theater in Mexico City, which he renamed Teatro Fru Fru and where he produced and starred in plays.
Her career transcended from acting to politics: between 1994 and 2000 she was a senator, first with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), then with the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), and finally as an independent in her last stage.