Carmen Sevilla is a popular Spanish

Spain

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 actress, singer and TV presenter

Presenter

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. She made her film debut in 1948 in Jalisco Canta en Sevilla. Other roles include Academy Award nominee La venganza, Buscando a Mónica (1962) and the 1956 French film Don Juan.

She played Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...

 in Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....

's King of Kings. In 1972 she played Octavia

Octavia Minor

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 in the English-language film Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film)

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, directed by Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

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.

She received a Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (Cinema Writers Circle) lifetime award in 2004.