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Catana Cayetano was born in Livingston, Guatemala sometime in August of 1940. She is a German actress and model, professor and author.
Catana attended primary school in the capital and a private school in Jamaica, and finally received a diploma to study at the University of Cambridge (England). At the age of 20, she went to the country of her adoptive parents' ancestors, Germany, and settled in Munich. There she took up language studies with the intention of taking up the profession of interpreter. Although very conspicuous in the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1960s thanks to her dark complexion and exotic charisma, Catana Cayetano had never experienced racist hostility in Germany, according to her own statement, while this was to change massively later, after her move to the United States.
In Germany, Catana Cayetano quickly got commissions as a photo model and was also offered her first film role at the age of 24: In Geza von Radvanyi's visually powerful German-Italian slave opus “Uncle Tom's Cabin” (Cassy), the black artist played one of the female leads as the young slave Eliza. This was followed by other roles in German film and television, mostly of minor importance. In 1968 she appeared in a supporting role in a late Edgar Wallace crime thriller (“Gorilla Gang”) and the following year with the female lead in the feature film “Cardillac” by Edgar Reitz, alongside Hans-Christian Blech. Also in 1969, Catana Cayetano was Sharon Tate's film partner in her last screen appearance in the comedy “Twelve Plus One”. At the beginning of the 1970s, the acting career of the German-Guatemalan gradually petered out. She married the white U.S. actor Frederick Tully, who had also been in Munich on business at the time and moved to his American homeland. There, the artist made her last, tiny film appearance in the pirate film adventure “The Scarlet Pirate” and then ended her film career. With Tully, she has a son named Patrick born in 1973.
She took courses in humanistic studies until she received a doctorate from the University at Albany and pursued cultural studies at SUNY at Empire State College (ESC) until she received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Catana Tully also received a professorship there, which she held until 2003. She also earned a master's degree in Latin American and Caribbean literature. In 2005, Tully returned to the ESC and served as a mentor and trainer in the Lebanon Program and as Interim Director for the Dominican Republic Program at the Center for International Programs. In 2012 she wrote her autobiography Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity.
Catana appeared in two Euro-westerns. As Cassy in 1965’s “Onkel Toms Hütte” (Cassy) and then as as Franziska in the TV film “Geronimo und die Räuber” (Geronimo and the Robbers).
CAYETANO, Catana (aka Catana Tully) [8/?/1940
Livingston, Guatemala - ] – model,
theater, film, TV actor, married to producer, actor Frederick Vincent Tully
[1931-2005] (1973-2005) mother of composer Patrick Avalon Tully [1973- ].
Geronimo und die
Räuber (TV) – 1966 (Franziska)
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