Inda Ledesma

Inda Ledesma (born Margarita Rodríguez; March 29, 1926 – January 26, 2010) was an Argentine stage, television, and cinema actress who also gained prominence as a theatre director and instructor.

Inda Ledesma was born in the Argentine town of Coronel Suárez to anarchist parents who fled persecution in Buenos Aires.

The following year, she was given her first role in the cinema of Argentina, in Pierre Chenal's El viaje sin regreso (Journey of No Return), by then she was known by her pseudonym, Inda Ledesma.

[1] Ledesma continued to appear in the film, though in subsequent years she became prominent in the theatre, where she was trained by well-known local stage directors such as Antonio Cunill Cabanellas and Augusto Fernándes.

Her theatre appearances in subsequent years included that of Lady Macbeth in a 1973 Teatro General San Martín production, and works by Carlos Gorostiza, Luigi Pirandello, Anton Chekhov (Three Sisters), Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie), and as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a long-running production of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar (with Ernesto Bianco as George Bernard Shaw).