Biography

Rafaela Aparicio was born in 1906, the daughter of a merchant ship pilot. She began her career on stage in 1931 at age 23 in the play "El conflicto de Mercedes" after having worked for a few years as a teacher. She is a symbol for the Andalusian woman, smart and happy. With El mar y el tiempo (1989) she won the Goya award as Best Actress. In total she has made more than 100 movies.

- IMDb mini biography by: Volker Boehm

Rafaela Díaz Valiente, her real name, was the daughter of a very restless businessman who tried his luck in all the guilds that saw the possibility to stand out and thrive. In view of the good family position, She was able to study the teaching of children that She did not practice as a professional because in the thirties he saw his father as the possibility of to make a career in theater and cinema. Already in the thirties and before the war he had the good fortune to work in various companies, in Zarzuela nothing less with the prestigious Salvador Videgain and Felisa Herrero. With the civil war he gets the fight in Madrid and will be part of the company of the comedy during the whole conflict and it is there in 1936 where he will meet his partner for life, Erasmo Pascual. In the thirties she made figuration in the movies appearing in peasant and ordinary woman papers, his fame will come with television and the papers of the sixties in what was called Spanish, she managed to get the affection of the public with the papers of Chaha and the nun Rafaela in Sor Citroên, from that moment was highly esteemed by the industry, ended his old age in a nursing home.

- IMDb mini biography by: The Duque.