Raquel Pankowsky (July 10, 1952 – March 28, 2022) was a Mexican Jewish film and television actress.
She could not imagine herself not smoking, and was having a difficult time giving it up and turned to an addiction psychiatrist.
Pankowsky was an extra in the theater production of Hat Full of Rain (Un sombrero lleno de lluvia) and met Luis Gimeno who was also in the play.
At that time Gimeno was the director of the school of the National Association of Actors (ANDA), he encouraged her to study acting there.
[9] In 2005 Pankowsky's role as Marta Sahagún, Mexico's First Lady and wife of President Vicente Fox, in El privilegio de mandar opened many doors for her and "gave her the greatest success of her career".