Pilar Pellicer ‑ a Mexican film actress ‑ died from COVID-19 on May 16, 2020,at the age of 82 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
At the 17th Ariel Awards, Pellicer won the Ariel Award for Best Actress for La Choca.
She is a daughter of César Pellicer Sánchez, a lawyer by profession, and Pilar López de Llergo, both from Tabasco. At age 18, she studied at the Academy of Contemporary Dance, and was trained by Seki Sano. She later abandoned dance to study philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She also studied at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. She debuted as an actress in the movie El vendedor de muñecas in 1955.