Marín was born Felipa Cartas Orozco in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on August 12, 1944, in the municipality of Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca.[1] At age 14 she moved to Mexico City,[1] where she began her acting career with a small role in the drama film El derecho de nacer in 1966.[2]
She had prominent supporting roles in La marcha a Zacatecas and El último pistolero (both 1969) before playing a Sioux Indian named Thorn Rose in A Man Called Horse (1970), the film that gave her international exposure.
She also acted in Espérame en Siberia, vida mía (1971), with Mauricio Garcés; Chanoc contra el tigre y el vampiro (1972), with Gregorio Casal; Tacos al carbon (1972), with Vicente Fernández; El rey de Acapulco (1972), with Capulina; and El Payo - un hombre contra el mundo (1972), with Jorge Rivero.
Her greatest achievement in Mexican cinema was her performance in her second film co-starring Capulina, El bueno para nada (1973), in which she played the main female role: María, Capulina's Native Mexican girlfriend who works as a maid in the house of Susana Alexander and Pancho Córdova. Her performance showed that, in addition to being a great beauty, she also had talent for comedy.
She returned to acting in the mid-1980s with a supporting role in the film Lo que importa es vivir (1987).
She died of breast cancer on June 23, 1989 at age 44, and is survived by two children.[1]
Legacy
A movie theater in the Herón Ríos Cultural Center in Juchitán de Zaragoza bears her name.[3]
In 2016, she was honored with a mural and a short film in Unión Hidalgo, her hometown.[1]
^Hoy, Issues 1793-1805. 1974. p. 53. LINA MARÍN, OTRO ESTELAR CON CAPULINA.—Bueno para nada, Gordo al agua . . . Joaquín Murieta, Rebelión, Un hombre llamado caballo, Chanoc contra el tigre y el vampiro, Espérame en Siberia, vida mía, El rey de Acapulco, películas y más películas desde que debutó en El derecho de nacer. Ahora Capulina le ofrece un estelar grande. Y ella acepta.
