- Of all the films she has acted in, Amantes (1991) is her favorite.
- Born in Málaga, Andalusia, Mabel Escaño moved to Madrid when she turned 18 to study dramatic arts.
- Graduated at Teatro Estudio Madrid (TEM).
- Six months after entering acting school, Mabel Escaño got her first role in a play: La senhora del Alba by Alejandro Casona, in the Reina Victoria Theatre.
- Mabel Escaño spent four years with a play premiered in 1972, Charly, no te vayas a Sodoma, whose performance was canceled for three days due to problems with the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
- Mabel studied Dramatic Art in Madrid, at Teatro Estudio Madrid (TEM), with Miguel Narros and Whillian Leyton.
- Mabel moved to Madrid very young, at 18, after her father died, because he opposed her studying Dramatic Art.
- After half her life in Madrid - Mabel went to live there at the age of 18 pursuing her dream of acting - she returned to Malaga in 2010.
- Mabel is an accomplished dubbing artist, teacher and dubbing director in Spain. In her work she has dubbed actresses such as Joan Crawford or Bette Davis and as a curiosity, she provided voice for Telecinco's first cartoon series, Las Montañas de Ana, when the private network was born.
- Mabel is one of the fifteen protagonists of Contra el tempo (2012), the documentary produced by Carlos Taillefer about Spanish supporting actors of the sixties and seventies.
- A successful career in theater in the 1970s deprived Mabel of important job offers, including a Chevrolet advertisement.
- Mabel founded a theater company at the beginning of the 80s and financed a political play directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez. But the premiere of the play coincided with 23-F (an attempted coup d'état that occurred on February 23, 1981) and that made the play a great failure.
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