She studied ballet in Havana, with teachers like Lita Enhart, Lalo Maura and Jorge Harrison.

During her stay in the United States, she worked alongside stars like Bob Hope, Carmen Miranda, Xavier Cugat and The Lecuona Cuban Boys.

She worked with Pedro Infante in Dícen que soy mujeriego, and with Germán "Tin Tan" Valdés in Calabacitas tiernas.

Aguilar filmed 23 movies in just 10 years alongside figures such as Buster Keaton (El colmillo de Buda, 1949), Sara García (Novia a la medida, 1949), Rita Montaner (Ritmos del Caribe, 1950), Adalberto Martínez "Resortes" (Al son del mambo, 1950), Prudencia Grifell (Los huéspedes de la Marquesa, 1950), Elvira Quintana (Las viudas del Cha Cha Cha, 1955) and Evangelina Elizondo (Los platillos voladores, 1956), among others.

Her most remembered dramatic character is in the film Amor perdido (1951), alongside Víctor Junco.

In 1976, she finally returned to Mexico for a musical revue in the Teatro Blanquita with "Resortes", alongside the Cuban rumbera Rosa Carmina.

In 1981, she returned to Peru and presented the successful musical revues Perú...te traigo un Son and Salsa Caliente '82.