Von Marie Mendez (born September 8, 1950) is a Puerto Rican actress[1] and restaurateur.[2] Alongside such others as Iris Chacon, Millie Aviles, Sully Diaz, Giselle Blondet, Ivonne Goderich, Marilyn Pupo and others, she is remembered as one of the leading actresses during the golden era of telenovelas produced in Puerto Rico, that being between the late 1950s and the early 1990s.
Mendez is a native of the southern city of Ponce.