JACQUELINE EVANS de LOPEZ (1915-1989)

JACQUELINE EVANS, LA CARRERA PANAMERICANA.

For over 30 years, Jacqueline Evans was a popular actress in Mexican comedies and daytime serials. She was born in England and  flew to New York in August 1946 after a long struggle to get a visa. In October that year she flew to Mexico City for a short stay, but stayed for over 40 years. She came to Mexico to run in the PanAmerican Races. In film, she frequently appeared with Tin-Tan, another popular actor. Evans also played in a few American and British films.

In Mexican films Jacqueline appears almost always as a gringa - from the late 1940s (Adventures of Casanova, shot in English in 1947 by Roberto Gavaldón for Hollywood producer Bryan Foy) through the '70s. As late as 1986 she can be seen in the TV-movie Murder in Three Acts, shot in Mexico. She had minor roles in some British films before moving to Mexico. Coming Out Trumps is her biography (printed in Canada).

Jacqueline Evans (Islington, Londres, Inglaterra; 1915 — † Acapulco, Guerrero, México; 1989) fue una actriz y corredora de autos británica, que se afinco en México desde mediados de los años cuarenta.Grace Alice Evans Antrobus nace en Islington, Londres, el 17 de enero de 1915, empieza su carrera con papeles menores en la cinematografía británica. En 1946 viaja a Nueva York y posteriormente a México de vacaciones, ahí conoce a quien seria su esposo, el torero Fernando López, de quien se enamora y decide quedarse a radicar en el país azteca, en el cual sigue su carrera actoral en papeles de reparto, en donde a menudo aparece como una gringa, en cintas como Simbad el mareado (1950), con Germán Valdés ¨Tin Tan”, El suavecito (1951), película consagratoria de Víctor Parra y Sindicato de telemirones (1954), con Tito Guízar, Emilia Guiú y Rebeca Iturbide. A partir de mediados de los años 50 alterna su trabajo actoral, haciendo pequeños roles en el cine de México y Hollywood, todavía en 1986 aparece en la película estadounidense para televisión Murder in Three Acts, filmada en Acapulco, lugar donde radica los últimos años de su vida y en donde muere el 22 de Junio de 1989.
Jacqueline Evans también es recordada por ser la fundadora de “La Torre de papel” , popular expendio de revistas y periódicos extranjeros en la ciudad de México1 y por ser la única mujer que participo en todas las primeras ediciones de la popular carrera panamericana, en la IV carrera manejo un Porsche 356, con el rostro de Eva Perón pintado en el cofre, a manera de homenaje2 y cuya miniatura se ha vuelto de gran valía para los coleccionistas; en esta carrera al ser descalificada circulo el rumor de un intento de suicidio.

It has been suggested that the Carrera Panamericana driver Jacqueline Evans de Lopez was Welsh. If this were true, then she would have to rank as one of the most colourful Welsh motorsport characters - even more colourful than her 1954 Porsche 356 (pictured model). Jacqueline Evans was an actress, often playing gringas in Spanish language Mexican films and soaps, a career spiced with the occasional Hollywood outing; she had a small role in the Costa-Gavras movie "Missing" for example. Jacqueline Evans is also remembered for her help in establishing and funding the archive of Mexican and foreign magazines and newspapers, "La Torre del Papel" in Mexico City. Jacqueline died in Acapulco in 1989.

Now some of the information on the internet movie databases is wrong. She was born in 1915 not 1914 and her real name was Grace Alice Evans not Grace Alice Evans Antibus - her mother's surname was infact Antrobus. Was Ms Evans de Lopez Welsh? Well Jacqueline was born in Islington, London and her mother Maud was a Tottenham grocer's daughter. However, her father's name was Stephen W. Evans and the only person of this name in London at the time of the 1901 Census was a Welsh born dairyman. So more research needs to be done before a Welsh connection can be ruled out. Can anyone help? Has anyone seen a copy of her Canadian published biography "Coming Out Trumps" by Luz Evans - her daughter perhaps? 

Answer:
Grace Alice Evans Had no children by either husban,Her Father Stephen was not Welsh, he was the son of Thomas Evans, a printers cutter,born in Fleet street London 1863.