Sonia Furió

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

María Sonia Furió Flores (30 July 1937 – 1 December 1996) was a Mexican actress. She was born in Alicante, Spain, to Nicolás Furió Cabanés and María Flores Guillén. Her family moved to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War, and she became a Mexican citizen on 2 May 1952 at age 14.

Her first film was Y mañana serán mujeres (1955). She studied modern and folkloric dance, English, French, painting and sculpture, and trained in stagecraft at the Academia de Andrés Soler.

Furió won a golden medal from the Asociación Israelita for Los desarraigados (1960) and a trophy from the Asociación de Críticos Mexicanos for La cárcel de Cananea (1960). She died in Mexico City.