CARO, ALICIA

(1930 - )

   Colombian actress whose period of greatest popularity came in the late '40s-early '50s; she had the female lead in Luis Buñuel's La hija del engaño (1951), for instance. Only sporadically on film in the 1960s; she retired from performing in the early '70s (her final appearance may have been in the Colombian-shot María, 1971). Married to actor Jorge Martínez de Hoyos (with whom she appeared in Cien gritos de terror in 1965) from the mid-1960s until his death in 1997.