Talina Fernández

Catalina María del Sagrado Corazón Fernández-Veró Vela (2 August 1944 – 28 June 2023) was a Mexican television presenter, journalist, producer, and actress. She hosted and wrote for numerous television programs for many years. Talina Fernández was born in Mexico City in 1944, the daughter of Jorge Fernández-Veró and Catalina Vela Alcaráz. She went to study in the United States at a very young age. After returning to Mexico, she graduated in nursing from the National Institute of Cardiology.Fernández married Gerardo Levy, with whom she had three children, among them the entertainer Mariana Levy, who died from cardiac arrest in 2005.After her separation from Levy, she married politician Alejandro Carrillo Castro in 1981. They divorced in 2015, after Fernández alleged infidelity on his part.Fernández died at a hospital in Polanco, Mexico City on 28 June 2023, 4 and a half weeks short of her 79th birthday, after a short battle with leukemia.