RIP Wanda Seux

Wanda Seux, iconic vedette and actress, passes away at 72

Wanda Seux had a long career in film, television, and theatre in Mexico

El Universal

9/2/2020

Vedette and actress Wanda Seux passed away at 72 years old, news that has filled the show business with sadness, especially those related to the showgirls' world of Mexican cinema.

The Mexican dancer and actress of Paraguayan origin passed away today at 14:50 at the Actor’s Home due to previous health conditions, as asserted to EL UNIVERSAL by a source from that institution.

“Her death was peaceful and painless.”

Although her death causes are still unknown, Wanda had been sick for a long time, as we must remember she had a cerebral infarction on October last year that put her on the brink of death and which affected several parts of her body; however, she recovered and returned to the actor’s Home where she lived.

The vedette’s Friends, with whom she appeared on the documentary Beauties At Night, such as Lyn May, have already expressed their surprise regarding Wanda Seux’s death.

The National Association of Interpreters mourned her death on its Twitter account and showed its respect to Wanda’s family and friends.

Juana Amanda Seux Ramírez (her real name) was born in Paraguay in 1948. She was raised by her mother, who separated from her biological father when she was very little and whom she met until she was 10 years old. So during her childhood, she grew up with her stepfather who took her family to live in Argentina.

There, the 2-year-old girl met the show business with its lights and cameras since she was invited to be a model in festivals, school, and social events, but her beauty was such that when she was 11 years old, she was invited to model at an event for young people.

She studied to be an English teacher and also took dancing and singing classes, which opened her the doors to the show business in Bueno Aires, Argentina, where she worked in different places performing Arabian dances.

However, it was in 1972, by recommendation of her boyfriend, that she decided to change her name to Wanda and since then she took the leap from showgirl to vedette. The one who made her famous in that South American country was Eber Lobato, who decided to refresh theShe traveled with that company to Venezuela and met Hugo López, a promoter for artists like Julio Iglesias and Raphael, who invited her to make a tour in Mexico, where she stayed.

She arrived in Mexico in 1976 already as a vedette but with a proposal that had not been seen before in the country since she offered shows similar to the ones given in Las Vegas and it was even said her production cost USD $9,000 back then.

She was known as the “Golden Bomb” and was considered the Barbie of vedettes due to her blond hair and stylish figure. She was the most important figure in important Mexico City hotels like El Regis and then she went to the Folies Bergère. But she became a huge success at Televisa’s Marrakesh.

Hence, Wanda was able to dabble in film, making her debut with Vicente Fernández at the movie “El Arracadas” to then dabble in the Mexican erotic comedy of the 1970s and 80s.

In such films, she shared the screen with Sasha Montenegro, Andrés García, Lalo "El Mimo", and María Victoria among many others.

She made her TV debut in 1985 with the telenovela “Sal{on de belleza” and appeared in several shows with national TV stars like Manuel “El Loco” Valdés and other vedettes like Rossy Mendoza, Amira Cruzat, and Grace Renat.

In 2009, when she was already 60 years old, she was featured in Playboy, and that same year, she created the character known as Super Wanda to be part of the cast of the La Oreja TV show.

Her comeback to cinema was in 2013 with the short Perdona nuestras ofensas by Israel Ahumada and in 2016 she co-starred at the documentary Beauties of the Night with Olga Breesking, Rossy Mendoza, Lyn May, and Princess Yamal.

She appeared in several music videos with bands like Las Víctimas del Doctor Cerebro for theit single “Sobrenatural.” Her last work was in 2017 at the play Divas por siempre along with Shanik Berman, “El Loco” Valdés, Lyn May, Grace Renat, and Princess Yamal.

SEUX, Wanda (Juana Amanda Seux Ramirez)

Born: 1/3/1948, Paraguay

Died: 9/2/2020, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Wanda Seux’s western – actress:

El arracadas - 1978