Parra started her career as a 14-year-old in 1946 in the play based on the novel
Rosalba y los llaveros y otras obras de teatro, directed by
Salvador Novo, with
Ignacio López Tarso, who played her father. She began her film career in 1981 with the movie
Carta a un niño. In television, her first credit was in 1986 with the telenovela
Cuna de lobos. Her major roles were in plays, while her roles in cinema and television were more minor. Her major roles in telenovelas included
El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar (1988), in which she played Constanza de Santiago and
Daniela (2002) as Consuelo Gamboa. Parra was married to writer Argelio Gasca (born 1939), with two sons, and also actress Kenia Gascón and the compositor David Gasca. Tara Parra died on 12 September 2025, at the age of 93. == Filmography ==