Katy Jurado was born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry. Despite the loss of property, the matriarch of the family, her grandmother, continued to live by her aristocratic ideals. When movie star 'Emilio Fernandez and a Best Supporting Actress award in 1999 for "El evangelio de las Maravillas". She also was awarded a Special Golden Ariel for Lifetime Achievment in 1997. In the north, she was honored with a Golden Boot Award by the Motion Picture & Television Fund in 1992 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jurado was an avid promoter of her home state of Morelos as a location for filmmakers. Towards the end of her life, she suffered from heart and lung ailments. Katy Jurado died on July 5, 2002, at the age of 78 at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was survived by her daughter.
Gained 22 pounds in 22 days to play the part of Annie Lightcloud in Stay Away, Joe . Days before filming, she broke her foot and removed the cast prematurely, which explains her limp throughout the movie.
Former husband Ernest Borgnine referred to her as "beautiful, but a tiger."
Was discovered by film director Budd Boetticher in 1951, when he saw her sitting in a bullfight arena while he was in Mexico filming the film, Bullfighter and the Lady . He cast her in a small part immediately, though she did not know a word of English.
First Mexican actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. The second was Salma Hayek , in 2003.
Mexican film star and singer Jorge Negrete was her godfather at her quinceaera.
Nicknamed husband Ernest Borgnine "Bullito", meaning "Little Bull".
Paul Kohner (husband of Lupita Tovar ) was her agent.
At one time Frank Sinatra wanted to pursue a relationship with her, but she offered him to be friends instead.
Was very good friends with Hollywood actors, Sammy Davis Jr., Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Marlon Brando.
While filming Barrio de campeones she received word that her son Victor Hugo Velazquez had been killed in an auto accident in Montemorelos, Nuevo Len.
For High Noon (1952) , she was the first of only 4 actresses to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 3 are, in chronological order: Hermione Gingold in Gigi , Karen Black in The Great Gatsby and Katharine Ross in Voyage of the Damned .
Only four years older than George Maharis, who played her son in A Covenant with Death.
Katy Jurados name is pronounced Kaytee hur AH doe.
