Yadira Pascault Orozco is a French Mexican film, television, and theater actress and producer based in Los Angeles. She has most recently worked on the hit Telemundo series La Jefa, on Netflix's Los Corruptores and as Mata Hari on "Behind The Myth", an episode of the Emmy Award winning series Expedition Files on the Discovery Channel. She has appeared in several feature films including; Heroes Game (Juego de Héroes), Between Us (Aquí entre nos) and No eres tú, soy yo, and has performed starring and co-starring dramatic roles in many prime-time episodic television programs for TV Azteca.Yadira Orozco at filmografie.osobnosti.cz. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
Yadira Pascault Orozco began her onscreen career as the presenter of the rock n roll program called Sónicamente and was also the host of the cinema culture show El Once En El Cine, both on Canal Once.
Pascault Orozco also produces both theater and film. She was an associate producer of the feature films, Nosotros los Nobles (English: The Noble Family), El Cumple de la Abuela, No Eres Tu Soy Yo, Amor de mis Amores, 31 Días, Boogie El Aceitoso Reparto Boogie, el aceitoso (2009), peliculassimilares.com. Retrieved February 2, 2017. Allá en el Rancho, and was the principal producer of the play La Promesa (written by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov, that ran at several different locations in Mexico City during 2013."La Promesa en el teatro La Capilla, en Coyoacán, México" , jus.com.mx. Retrieved February 2, 2017. Two of her films are among the top ten all-time Mexican box office successes in history. In 2013, the comedy feature Nosotros los Nobles (The Noble Family), of which she was an associate producer, rose to the number one ranking after taking in $165.3 million Mexican pesos, rising above even the revered Arráncame la vida (2008; $110 million Mexican pesos) and Y Tu Mamá También (2000; $123 million pesos). In 2010, after only a month in national cinemas, the romantic comedy No Eres Tu Soy Yo (of which Pascault Orozco was both an associate producer and an actress) collected more than $100 million Mexican pesos and became the fifth highest-grossing film in the history of Mexican cinema, according to a report published by the National Chamber of the Cinematographic and Videogram Industry."The Top Grossing Mexican Films of All-Time", Cinema Tropical, April 23, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2017.John Hecht, "Mexico Has New All-Time Box Office Champ", Hollywood Reporter, April 21, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
In popular culture
Orozco has been a reference for works of modern visual art and also literature. In 2016, the Mexican muralist Julio Carrasco Bretón depicted her face on a large scale wall painting created specifically for Hotel El Parque México in Mexico City. The lead character "Violeta" in the Mexican writer Xavier Velasco's novel, Diablo Guardián, was largely inspired by Pascault Orozco's personal character and speech patterns. The book won the Premio Alfaguara book award in 2003.Eva Usi, "Xavier Velasco, el chico terrible de la literatura mexicana", Deutsche Welle website, 12 October 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
After attending the opening of Perception, an exhibition by the New York contemporary artist Carole Feuerman at KM Fine Arts in Los Angeles, in 2016 the artist invited Pascault Orozco to New York to become the subject of a full-sized hyper-realist sculpture.
The finished result, a life-sized sculpture entitled, The Midpoint, portraying Yadira Pascault Orozco (wearing a one-piece swimsuit and a bathing cap) made its debut in Feuerman's 2017 solo showing at Giardino della Marinaressa, part of the 2017 Venice Biennale. Later in 2020, the sculpture was a focal point of an arts debate about the piece and its place in Tübingen, Germany involving mayor Boris Palmer and prominent members of the arts and culture community.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2005 Bolas Chinas Natasha The Stripper Directed by: Alejandro Ezpeleta 2006 Luciana Doris Directed by: Juan Pablo Cortés 2010 No eres tú, soy yo Dueña del perro Directed by: Alejandro Springall 2012 Aquí entre nos Directed by: Patricia Martínez de Velasco 2013 Nosotros los Nobles (The Noble Family) Associate producer Directed by: Gary Alazraki 2016 Juego De HéroesYadira Orozco, cinemagia.ro. Retrieved February 2, 2017. Graciela Directed by: Pedro Alvarez Tostado 2018 Justice for All Cielo Directed by: Hector Echavarria 2018 Poppies Mary Directed by: Myles Yaksich 2021 Introducing Jodea Isabella Directed by: Jon Cohen 2024 Do Not Disturb Isla Directed by: Hugo Ortiz Clemens
Theater Year Title Role Notes 2010 Las Mascaras de Sor Juana Sor JuanaYadira Orozco, talentboutique.mx Directed by: Miguel Sabido 2013 La Promesa (actress, producer) Protagonista Directed by: Luly Rede 2018 I Was Born To Be Gloria Short and Sweet Theatre Hollywood 2018 Short and Sweet Directed by: John Fingal O'Donnell 2019 Vote For Me Rada Directed by: John Fingal O'Donnell
Television Year Title Role Notes 1999-2005 Sónicamente Presenter Directed by: Jorge Villela 2008-2009 El Once En El Cine Presenter Directed by: Daniela Paasch 2025 La Jefa (ep. 72-27) DEA Directed by: Maurico Meneses (Telemundo)
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