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Regina Torné, remembered for Like Water for Chocolate, dies at 82

The Mexican actress also played Aunt Gloria in El Chavo del 8, a television role recalled in the brief announcement of her death.

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Mexican actress Regina Torné, remembered for playing Mamá Elena in Like Water for Chocolate and Aunt Gloria in El Chavo del 8, has died at 82, Mexico's NMás reports. The broadcaster says the cause of her death has not been disclosed.

Accompanied by archive photographs, the announcement looks back at a career that began with jazz singing in 1962, followed by a film debut in Despedida de soltera (1966).

For international film audiences, Torné's familiar role may be Mamá Elena, the formidable mother in Alfonso Arau's 1992 adaptation of Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water for Chocolate. The character enforces the family tradition that prevents her youngest daughter, Tita, from marrying because she must remain at home to care for her mother.

The report also recalls a different register of Torné's work: Aunt Gloria's encounters with Don Ramón in El Chavo del 8, the Mexican television comedy created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños. Its brief remembrance brings together the stern authority of Mamá Elena and a character from one of Latin America's best-known sitcoms.

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