Catana Cayetano

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Catana Cayetano , bourgeois today Catana Tully (* 1940 in Livingston , Guatemala ), is a Guatemala-born and active in Germany actress in film and television and a photo model as well as, by marriage, an American university professor and book author .

Live and act

Origin, childhood, youth and education

Catana Cayetano has an extraordinary vita. Born in 1940 in what was then the village of Livingston, a settlement on the Río Dulce in Guatemala and the Caribbean - today a city - as the daughter of a completely destitute black servant in the house of white, German settlers who came to the Guatemalan coastal region as foreigners at the beginning of the Second World War had to leave, she grew up in the care of her adoptive white parents in Guatemala City. Catana attended elementary school in the capital and a private school in Jamaica and eventually received a degree to study at the University of Cambridge (England). At the age of 20 she went to the land of the ancestors of her adoptive parents, Germany, and settled in Munich. There she took up a language course with the intention of taking up the profession of interpreter. Although, thanks to her dark complexion and her exotic charisma, it was very noticeable in the Federal Republic of the early 1960s, Catana Cayetano, according to her own admission, had never experienced racist hostility in Germany, while that was to change massively later, after she moved to the United States.

As an actress in Germany

In Germany, Catana Cayetano quickly received orders as a photo model and was also offered her first film role at the age of 24: In Geza von Radvanyi's visually powerful German-Italian slave opus Uncle Toms Hütte , the colored artist played one of the young slave girls Eliza in her first film female lead roles. Other roles from German film and television followed, mostly of minor importance. In 1968 she was seen with a supporting role in a late Edgar Wallace thriller and the following year with the female lead in Edgar Reitzen's largely unknown production Cardillac , at the side of Hans-Christian Blech . Also in 1969, Catana Cayetano was a film partner of Sharon Tate in her last screen appearance in the comedy Twelve plus one . At the beginning of the 1970s, the acting career of the German-Guatemalan gradually petered out. She married the white US actor Frederick Tully , who was also living in Munich for work at the time, and moved to his American homeland. There the artist completed her last, tiny film appearance in the pirate film adventure The Scarlet Pirate and then ended her film career. She and Tully have a son named Patrick.

Scientific career in the USA

Catana Cayetano began her third career in the United States, now by marriage to Catana Tully. With racist hostility from whites due to their skin color but also from blacks due to the fact that she had a white husband, as accompanying music, Tully began to deal with her black identity. She took courses in humanistic studies up to her doctoral degree at the University at Albany and pursued cultural studies at SUNY at Empire State College (ESC) up to a Bachelor of Arts . Catana Tully also received a professorship there, which she held until 2003. She also earned a Masters in Latin American and Caribbean Literature. In 2005 Tully returned to the ESC and served the Center for International Programs there as a mentor and trainer in the Lebanon program and as interim director for the Dominican Republic program.

In 2011 she finally retired, and Catana Tully began to write down her memoirs and arguments about her origins and racism of all kinds, which in the following year 2012 in the autobiography "Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity", their first book. In the spring semester of 2013, this biography served for the first time as basic reading for the Master of Social Work program at the University of Southern California . Since then, Prof. Tully has coached students and works with adopted young people of races other than their adoptive parents. In addition, Catana Tully gives those parents support on issues relating to origin, religion and race who intend to adopt babies / children from other cultures.

Filmography

  • 1964: Uncle Tom's hut
  • 1965: Welcome to Altamont
  • 1966: portrait of a hero
  • 1966: Donaug'schichten (TV series, one episode)
  • 1967: The Father and His Son (TV series)
  • 1968: The Soho Gorilla
  • 1968: Cardillac
  • 1969: twelve plus one
  • 1970: one girl for everything
  • 1971: Read Yesterday (TV series, episode)
  • 1976: The Scarlet Pirate ( Swashbuckler )

literature

  • Catana Tully: Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity. 2012 (autobiography)

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personal data
SURNAME Cayetano, Catana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tully, Catania (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Guatemalan actress and model and US university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Livingston , Guatemala