Sasha Montenegro began her career as an actress in Mexico by chance. She was going to be a journalist. (Photo by Mario Castillo/Jam Media/LatinContent via Getty Images)
Sasha Montenegro’s life is more interesting than you think. Far from the controversies arising from her marriage to former president José López Portillo and the stigma that weighs on her as a fichera movie star, The actress has been the protagonist of events worthy of a thriller.
Daughter of Yugoslav immigrants, she was born in Bari, Italy, on January 20, 1946. She was registered as Aleksandra Acimovic Popovic.
His birth in Italian territory was a consequence of the missions entrusted to his father, Zivojin Acimovic, a man who worked for the British intelligence service in World War II. As an agent, or spy, he had to travel to different places in order to obtain security information for the United Kingdom. In July 1946 he was assigned to the South American region, specifically Argentina.
Aleksandra grew up between Mendoza and Buenos Aires. She wanted to study Journalism, a career that attracted her because of the breadth it offered, since she always had a taste for culture. While she was studying the first semesters of her bachelor’s degree She was arbitrarily detained along with other university students by police and soldiers of the dictator’s regime. Juan Carlos Onganía.
In 1969 tension increased. It was in this period when the so-called “puebladas” were recorded, that is, popular insurrections against the de facto government that emerged from a coup d’état. The government response consisted of attacks by its repressive forces against the people, including students. Faced with this situation, and after being released after it was proven that she was not a participant in the demonstrations, Aleksandra received the order from her mother to go to New York with the order to get away from danger and study English. The girl accepted. But first she had to stop in Mexico.
“My dream was to know Mexico,” the actress has reiterated on several occasions. Amazed by what she read and saw in her adolescence and youth, Aleksandra decided to spend a few days on Mexican soil to get to know as much as she could. She was hosted by an Argentine couple who inadvertently changed her future when they invited her to a meal at the Churubusco Studios.
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There he met people from the production of A dream of love (Rubén Galindo, 1972), a film that was about to be filmed and had José José and Verónica Castro as protagonists. The casting director Blanca Estela Limón introduced her as “a famous Argentine actress” and they proposed that she join the cast.
At first he rejected the proposal. However, as soon as they informed her of her pay, she accepted: “she was a millionaire.” She was also offered the third starring credit. With that money he would have more options to tour Mexico, so he decided to get into acting by accident.
Without anyone knowing that she was not actually an actress, she called herself Sasha Montenegro, taking the name of the country on the Balkan Peninsula as her stage name, honoring her roots. maternal.
With the premiere of A dream of love In 1972 he formally began his acting career. She did it with the role of Graciela, a young woman who dies in front of the eyes of her lover David (José José). After that appearance, offers began to pour in for her to do more films. She was a co-star of El Santo in Saint against the murderers of other worlds (1973) y Saint against black magic (1973). Mexican producers believed the version that he was a celebrity in his homeland and never questioned it.
He didn’t go to New York anymore. He also did not return to Argentina. She stayed in Mexico due to the unexpected change of plans in his destiny. He left behind the effects of the war on his family, the enigmatic life of his father in the service of British intelligence, the Argentine dictatorship and his intention to be a journalist. He symbolically buried Aleksandra Acimovic Popovic to see Sasha Montenegro born.
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