Tongolele

Info

Role

Actress

Date of birth

01/03/1932

Place of birth

Spokane, Washington, USA

Tongolele

Biography

Yolanda Montes, artistically known as "Tongolele", became a professional dancer when she was only 15 years old. Tongolele was an exotic dancer and actress of Mexican films from the late 1940's into the 1980's. She was and still is well known in Latin America and Spain. Her father was Spanish/Swedish and her mother English/French, but her maternal grandmother had Tahitian blood. Yolanda Montes "Tongolele is still active as dancer and actress on theatre, television and night clubs.