Lupita Ferrer

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Lupita Ferrer
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Born
Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer

(1947-12-06) December 6, 1947 (age 77)
Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
OccupationActress
Years active1965-pose
Spouse
(m. 1978;div. 1982)

Yolanda Guadalupe "Lupita" Ferrer (born December 6, 1947) is a Venezuelan theater, film and television actress. She is known as a "Queen of telenovelas" or "Queen of drama".

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Biography

Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer in Maracaibo, Venezuela, to Spanish immigrant parents. She became known for her beauty (especially her large and expressive eyes) and her strong theatrical presence.

Ferrer has a theatrical background. She started at the age of 15 performing in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as Ofelia. At the age of 18, then Venezuelan President Raul Leoni saw her performing in the piece "Dona Rosita La Soltera" ("Dona Rosita, the single one"), and was greatly impressed by her talent.

In the 1960s Ferrer worked in many Mexican and Venezuelan-Mexican film co-productions next to actors like Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", and during the 1970s worked in Hollywood movies sharing the screen with actors like Tony Curtis.

Her first telenovelas were Esmeralda, about a blind young woman, Mariana de la Noche (1975), about the forbidden love of Mariana Montenegro and Ignacio Lugo Navarro (José Bardina), María Teresa, a woman who goes insane after the loss of her little daughter, La Zulianita, Pecados Ajenos, and Cristal .

She lives in Miami.

She was married to the American film director Hall Bartlett for four years, who cast her alongside Anthony Quinn and the legendary Dolores del Río in his film The Children of Sanchez (1978), better known for its Grammy Award winning musical score by Chuck Mangione.

In 1985 she starred in a hugely successful telenovela produced in Venezuela by Radio Caracas Television named "Cristal" where she impersonates Victoria Ascanio, a very humble girl who after a brief forced encounter with a priest-to-be young man gets pregnant and is forced to leave her baby girl away after delivering her. Years after she comes back as the owner of a high couture clothes designing company which she rules with an iron fist. She hires a very beautiful girl who, after many plot devices applied, she discovers is her long lost daughter, whose estrangement make Victoria feel guilty and bittered. Cristal was a big success in South America, the U.S., Europe and Asia and was dubbed in many languages.

In 2006, Ferrer made a comeback in the American drama series Ugly Betty , [1] in which she played an actress in a telenovela who gets into a fight with a nurse on the show played by (Ugly Betty series creator) Salma Hayek. In 2007, Ferrer participated in Telemundo's Pecados Ajenos, which has since become a cult classic, as the main villain, the evil Agata Mercenario. In 2010, Ferrer participated in Univision Studios - Eva Luna as Justa Valdéz. In 2012, Ferrer also acted a telenovela by the name "Rosa Diamante" (Precious Rose), playing the character Rosaura Sotomayor. In this telenovela, she played alongside Carla Hernandez who was her long lost daughter after she had abandoned her at a boarding school.

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
1965Me ha gustado un hombreGloriaFilm debut
1968 La cama
1969Lío de faldasLuisa
1969Duelo en El Dorado
1969 Un Quijote sin mancha Angélica
1970El manantial del amor
1970 El oficio más antiguo del mundo Estela
1970Las chicas malas del padre Méndez
1970El cinicoRoberta Uribe
1970 La vida inútil de Pito Pérez
1971Los corrompidos
1971OK Cleopatra
1972Una mujer honesta
1978Los hijos de Sánchez Consuelo Sánchez
1983BalboaRita Carlo
1996Tú asesina, que nosotras limpiamos la sangreMarie Clement
2015 Ana Maria in Novela Land Sra. De La Roca
2015MedardoDoña Rosa
2017Donaire y EsplendorMassiel

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1967Donde no llega el solTelevision debut
1967RebeldeLead role
1969 Tú eres mi destino
1969 La frontera de cristal
1970 Esmeralda Esmeralda RiveraLead role
1972 María Teresa Maria Teresa / Muñeca MontielLead role
1973EnamoradaLead role
1973María SoledadMaría SoledadLead role
1974GabrielaGabrielaLead role
1974De la misma sangreLead role
1974La GuarichaPalmiraLead role
1974Mi hermana gemelaMarta / MaraLead role
1975 Mariana de la noche MarianaLead role
1976 La zulianita Martha María DominguezLead role
1979 Julia JuliaLead role
1981 Ligia Sandoval Ligia SandovalLead role
1984 Los años felices Marcela
1985 Cristal Victoria AscanioLead role
1985 Doña Perfecta PerfectaLead role
1988 Amándote (film)  [ es ]Lisette MistralSeries regular
1990 Amándote II  [ es ]LisetteSeries regular
1992 Las dos Dianas CatalinaLead role
1993 Rosangelica Cecilia Gel de la RosaSeries regular
1993Truhanes"Dos mujeres ofendidas" (Season 1, Episode 6)
1995 Morelia Ofelia Santibáñez Campos MirandaSeries regular
1996 Nada personal María Dolores de los ReyesRecurring role
1997 Destino de mujer AuroraCo-lead role
1999 Rosalinda Valeria Del CastilloSeries regular
2001 Soledad  [ es ]Victoria Álvarez CalderónSeries regular
2003 Amor descarado Morgana Atal
2004 Inocente de ti Gabriela Smith
2006 Ugly Betty Rich Latina"Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)
2007 Pecados ajenos Ágata MercenarioSeries regular
2010 Eva Luna Justa ValdézRecurring role
2012 Rosa diamante Rosaura SotomayorLead role
2015 Voltea pa' que te enamores Doña Elena SalasRecurring role
2017 La Fan SilviaSpecial Appearance
2017 Milagros de Navidad María Collins
2022 Amores que engañan Mamá DianaEpisode: "Derecho a ser feliz"
TBD Dramáticas TBA [2]

Theater

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019Divinas

Discography

References

  1. Journal, Chinedum Emelumba/The Jersey (2013-11-15). "Venezuelan actress Lupita Ferrer has show in Union City". nj. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  2. "Lupita Ferrer regresa a los dramáticos como villana – Hispanomedios". hispanomedios.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.