Pasquel was born into a show business family: her father, Rafael Banquells, was a famous Cuban-born actor and director. Her mother is Silvia Pinal, an actress very well known throughout Latin America and Spain. She chose the professional surname of "Pasquel" as a combination of her father's and mother's last names. Pasquel's siblings are also famous: her siblings on mother's side are actresses Viridiana Alatriste, singer Alejandra Guzmán and Luis Enrique Guzmán Pinal. Both Alejandra and Luis Enrique were a product of Pasquel's mother's third marriage to Mexican once teen idol Enrique Guzmán. Viridiana died as a consequence of a car accident. She is a half-sister of the actress and singer Rocío Banquells. Rocío is the daughter of Pasquel's father with his third wife, actress Dina de Marco. Her other siblings on father's side are Janette, Mary Paz, Ariadne and Rafael II. In an interview, Pasquel said that because of the age difference between herself and her siblings, she was more motherly to them than sisterly. Pasquel has been married twice, the first time at age 16 because her mother wanted her to be married as a virgin. Her first husband was the rocker Mike Salas. Her daughter, Stephanie Salas, is also a famous telenovela actress and an aspiring singer in Mexico. Her granddaughter, Michelle Salas, is Luis Miguel's daughter. Her second husband is Fernando Frade. His daughter, named Viridiana died in an accident in a pool in 1987. Pasquel, her mother, and two of her of sisters—Banquells and Guzman—have been inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias in Mexico City. Pasquel was inducted for her work in movies and television.
Career
1960s
At the age of nineteen, Pasquel did her first movie, El Despertar del Lobo. That movie was made in 1968, the year in which Pasquel became very famous in Mexico. She followed her first film with her telenovela debut, in Los Inconformes. In 1969, she took part in a movie about wrestling, starring alongside Santo and his wrestling enemy, Blue Demon, in Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida . She also appeared in two other films in 1969, Una Mujer Honesta and La Casa del Farol Rojo.
1970s
The decade of the 1970s was a very busy one for Pasquel, as she starred in multiple films, soap operas, and even in magazine soaps, which were popular in Latin America then. In 1970, she starred in Me he de comer esa tuna, La Cruz de Mariza Cruzes and in El Mariachi, the only telenovela she did that year. In 1971, she played "Gianna Donatti" in the telenovela Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse with Angélica María. That soap opera was a major hit, and Pasquel followed her work there with another telenovela, La Recogida. Her one movie in 1971 was Secreto de Confesion. 1972 proved to be a relatively easy year for Pasquel, whose fame had already spread to the rest of Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States. She participated in only one movie and no soap operas. Her movie that year was named Cinco Mil Dolares de Recompensa. She participated alongside Chabelo, a very popular children's actor of the era, in 1973's Chabelo y Pepito contra los Monstruos. This was followed by another telenovela, El Amor Tiene Cara de Mujer. She finished 1973 playing "Maritza" in "Mi Rival". Pasquel did two soap operas in 1974, each of which proved to be important in her career: in Ha LLegado una Intrusa, she played two roles in the same drama for the first time in her career, acting as twins "Veronina and Hilda Moreno". Mundo de Juguete, meanwhile, became one of the most successful Mexican telenovelas of the era. After El Milagro de Vivir, a 1975 soap opera, Pasquel began slowing her on screen work rate, and she took 1976 off to return in 1977, with another soap opera, named Humillados y Ofendidos. Once again, she took a full year off the screens in 1978 and returned in 1979 with a movie named Johnny Chicano and a soap named J.J. Juez.
1980s
By the 1980s, Pasquel was already a family woman, a fact which contributed to a further slowdown of her screen career. She participated in 1980's Al Rojo Vivo, in 1982's El Amor Nunca Muere, 1983's Cuando los Hijos se Van, and 1987's Los Años Perdidos. She took off three more years after that, returning in 1990 to participate in one episode of the popular television show, Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real, which is hosted by her mother. The chapter she appeared in was based on a real-life story of a rape victim. Soon after, she made another telenovela, Dias sin Luna. Her return to soap operas was followed by her return to film, with two movies made in 1991: Politico por Error and Asalto.
1990s
In 1990, a teen-oriented soap opera, Alcanzar una estrella, with Eduardo Capetillo, had become a major hit on Mexican television. Pasquel acted in that production's 1991 sequel, Alcanzar una estrella II, where she acted alongside Capetillo, Sasha Sokol and a budding Puerto Rican star named Ricky Martin. She followed that with 1993's Las Secretas Intenciones. and 1995's comedy filmEl Superman....Dilon Dos. In 1996, she participated in Para Toda la Vida, which was another telenovela. She returned once again in 1998's Huracan, where she played "Caridad".
2000s
She starred as "Zulema" in 2000's Mi DestinoEres Tu. In 2001, she participated in another major Mexican telenovela hit, El Manantial. That same year, she played as "Silvia" in Aventuras en el Tiempo. During 2002, she participated in a very large number of episodes of Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real. She also participated, as of 2005, in the Mexican soap opera Amarte es mi Pecado. Her latest appearance was, as of 2008, in the soap opera Yo amo a Juan Querendón. On stage, Pasquel had great success in 1979 in the playClaudia me quieren volver loco.
2010s
In 2013, Pasquel signed to star in Qué pobres tan ricos from the hit producer of Por Ella Soy Eva, Rosy Ocampo.
