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- Birth nameMaría del Rosario Mendoza Chávez
- Rossy Mendoza and dubbed Mexico's Smalles Waist and The Body, is a Mexican showgirl and actress. Along with Lyn May, Princess Lea and Angelica Chain, she was one of the best-known burlesque performers of the 1970s, and became widely known for her appearances in Mexican sexplotation films.
Her physique influenced transcendentally the standards of female beauty in the Mexican media. She is known for appearing in some of the most controversial nude scenes of Mexican film history, in which she participated with some of the most biggest names in the industry, such as El Santo, Jorge Rivero, David Reynoso, Andres Garcia and Jaime Moreno to name a few.
In her cinematographic trajectory, the roles of bimbos, exotic dancers, showgirls, strippers and damsel in distress are the most common.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ficheras
- In her film career she appeared in more than 52 films with stars such as Vicente Fernández, Andrés García, Jorge Rivero, Julio Alemán, Mario Almada, Ana Luisa Peluffo and Isela Vega.
- In 1971 she began a successful season at the El Clóset nightclub, where she shared top billing with the vedette Olga Breeskin.
- She began her career in the mid-1960s when she was still a teenager, slowly making a name for herself in the entertainment industry by performing in the main cabarets of Sonora.
- In the theatre she acted in several comic plays, in which she was directed by Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo, Rafael Banquells, Jose Diaz Morales and others. Her first stage play was with the comedians Emilio Brillas and Polo Ortín. She toured Mexico in the play Elena para los miercoles, with Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo. Another of her more notable stage plays was La locura del sexo with Andrés García.
- In 2016 Mendoza, along with the vedettes Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Wanda Seux and Princesa Yamal, was the subject of the Mexican documentary film Beauties of the Night directed by María José Cuevas.
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