Verónica Castro

She is rumored to have dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel and have had an animosity towards soap opera actress Lucia Mendez. De Carlo has worked steadily in both film and television, playing her most recent role in the television production of The Barefoot Contessa (1995). Many of Veronica's private life's details have become items for paparazzi photographers and gossip magazines to feast on. She also received recognition for her work in the horror movie American Gothic in 1988. Her son, Cristian Castro, is a teen idol singer all over Latin America and is the son of a famous Mexican comedian Manuel El Loco Valdez who never married Castro. She played the role of Lily Munster in the television series The Munsters (1964), and was able to demonstrate a comic flair that her films had failed to utilize. Castro embarked during the 1990s into the world of variety show hosting, and she has done that successfully for 12 years now. Despite this, her success was short-lived and the quality of her film roles did not improve.

In 1990 Castro participated in Mi Pequeña Soledad, where she had to play both a 40-year-old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20-year-old daughter (Soledad), who was the product of the rape. The film was a huge success and De Carlo was among those to be praised for her work. The theme song for that soap opera, also named Rosa Salvaje, became one of her biggest #1 hits as a singer. Cast in The Ten Commandments (1956), De Carlo was finally part of a major hit. In 1987 her career got a huge boost internationally when she played the main character in Rosa Salvaje alongside Guillermo Capetillo. For the next several years, she was constantly working although many of the films failed to advance her career. This soap became a success in Latin America, Spain, France, Russia, China and the Philippines. As the female lead opposite Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross, De Carlo played a dangerous femme fatale, and her career began to ascend.

Her career took-off with Los Ricos También Lloran, playing a poor maid in a Mexican version of Cinderella. In 1947 she played her first leading role in Slave Girl and then in 1949 had her biggest success. She started her career as an actress in TV shows and soap operas. Though not a critical success it was a box office favorite and De Carlo was hailed as an up and coming star. Verónica Castro is a well-known Mexican actress and singer. Her break came in 1945 playing the title role in Salome, Where She Danced. She made her first film appearance in 1942, but could only find bit parts for the next few years.

De Carlo supported herself working in a chorus while trying to find film work. Unable to find work, they returned to Canada until 1940, when they once again traveled to Hollywood. Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of an ambitious but unsuccessful aspiring actress, De Carlo was taken to Hollywood by her mother at the age of fifteen. Yvonne De Carlo (born September 1, 1922) is an Canadian film and television actress.