Begona Palacios, an actress who was the wife of late film maverick Sam Peckinpah, died March 1 of a liver malfunction in Mexico City. She was 58.
Palacios met Peckinpah while starring in a few low-budget Hollywood films during the early 1960s. She was best known in Mexico for action movies. Last year, she starred in the Mexican soap opera “La Chacala.”