CANO, FANNY

(1944?-1983)

   Statuesque blonde actress of the 1960s and 1970s. Cano, born in the state of Michoacán, came to the attention of film producers while a college student in Mexico City. She began appearing in supporting roles in the 1962, and by the end of the decade was starring in telenovelas and film melodramas such as Flor de durazno (1969) and La amante perfecta (1969). In the 1970s Cano married businessman Sergio Luis Cano; she retired from the screen after 1978, devoting herself to her marriage and to her interests in Eastern religions, meditation, vegetarianism, and other spiritual pursuits. In December 1983, Cano was one of over 100 people who lost their lives when two airliners collided in the fog on the runway of Barajas airport in Madrid.