Tuesday, December 23, 2025

23 Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Anais de Melo

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]


 Anais de Melo was born in Portugal on May 9, 1960, she is a naturalized Mexican actress.  De Melo began her career in Mexican cinema in the mid-1970s. One of her earliest appearances occurred in the 1976 Arturo Ripstein film “Foxtrot”, where she played a young woman but did not appear in the credits. Four years later she landed her first major role in the horror film “A Rat in the Dark”, in which she played a young woman who is stalked by a strange being in a haunted house. In the film she shared the main role with actress Ana Luisa Peluffo. Two years later she joined the cast of the film “The Caveman”, starring Ringo Starr. In 1984, she starred opposite Charles Bronson in the action film “The Evil That Men Do”. From then on, she appeared in more than sixty-five films, being a popular face in Mexican cinema between the 1980s and 1990s. She had a special participation in the telenovela ‘El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar’ (1988) playing the character of Yoko. She currently owns the public relations agency UFFF!, one of the most prestigious in Mexico.

Anais has appeared in two Spaghetti westerns: “El triunfo de un hombre Hamado Caballo” (Triumphs of a Man Called Horse) in 1982 as Dorothy and “La rebelión de los colgados” in 1986 as a whore.

de MELO, Anais (aka Anais D'Melo) [5/9/1960, Portugal -     ] – film, TV actress, owns the public relations agency UFFF!.

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse – 1982 (Dorothy)

La rebelión de los colgados – 1986 (whore)

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