Lupita Ferrer
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Lupita Ferrer is a Venezuela
n theater, film
and television
actress.
Ferrer was born Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer in Maracaibo
to Spanish
immigrant parents. She became famous for her beauty (especially her large and expressive eyes) and her strong theatrical presence.
Ferrer has a strong 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 impressed by her talent he granted her a scholarship in the famous N.Y.'s Actor's Studio, where she had Liza Minelli as a classmate, among other famous names.
In the 1960s Ferrer worked in many Mexican and Venezuelan-Mexican film co-productions next to iconic actors like Mario Moreno "Cantinflas
", and during the 1970s worked in Hollywood movies sharing the screen with famous 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, and Cristal
. She currently lives in Miami.
She was married to the American
film director
Hall Bartlett
for 4 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
. Allegedly, Bartlett wanted to change her image and even her name, which she refused, thinking that this would help her enter the American film market.
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 come back in the American drama series Ugly Betty
, 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
as Mrs Agata Mercenario. In 2010, Ferrer participated in Univision Studios - Eva Luna
as Justa Valdéz.
Ferrer, who is absolutely against plastic surgery, has always been admired by her beauty that seems impossible to be marked by the passage of time.
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n theater, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
actress.
Ferrer was born Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer in Maracaibo
Maracaibo
Maracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state...
to Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
immigrant parents. She became famous for her beauty (especially her large and expressive eyes) and her strong theatrical presence.
Ferrer has a strong 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
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero was President of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He fought against the dictators Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and was a charter member of the Acción Democrática party....
saw her performing in the piece "Dona Rosita La Soltera" ("Dona Rosita, the single one"), and impressed by her talent he granted her a scholarship in the famous N.Y.'s Actor's Studio, where she had Liza Minelli as a classmate, among other famous names.
In the 1960s Ferrer worked in many Mexican and Venezuelan-Mexican film co-productions next to iconic actors like Mario Moreno "Cantinflas
Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes , was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin...
", and during the 1970s worked in Hollywood movies sharing the screen with famous actors like Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...
.
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
José Bardina
José Bardina was a television leading actor.A native of Barcelona, Spain, Bardina was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He was best known for playing major roles on numerous soap operas, but he was best loved by audiences for his natural charm and the romantic rapport he shared with his female...
), María Teresa, a woman who goes insane after the loss of her little daughter, La Zulianita, and Cristal
Cristal (telenovela)
Cristal was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by Delia Fiallo and directed by Daniel Farías, Arturo Páez, and Tito Rojas...
. She currently lives in Miami.
She was married to the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett was an American film producer, director, and screen writer.-Early life:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee...
for 4 years, who cast her alongside Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
and the legendary Dolores del Río
Dolores del Río
Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...
in his film The Children of Sanchez
The Children of Sanchez
The Children of Sanchez is a 1961 book by American anthropologist Oscar Lewis about a Mexican family living in the Mexico City slum of Tepito, which he studied as part of his program to develop his concept of culture of poverty...
(1978), better known for its Grammy award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winning musical score
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
by Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...
. Allegedly, Bartlett wanted to change her image and even her name, which she refused, thinking that this would help her enter the American film market.
In 1985 she starred in a hugely successful telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
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 come back in the American drama series Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
, 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
Salma Hayek
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...
. In 2007, Ferrer participated in Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
's Pecados Ajenos
Pecados Ajenos
Pecados Ajenos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love This telenovela was sold to 16 countries around the world.Pecados Ajenos...
as Mrs Agata Mercenario. In 2010, Ferrer participated in Univision Studios - Eva Luna
Eva Luna
Eva Luna is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in 1985 and translated from Spanish to English by Margaret Sayers Peden.Eva Luna takes us into the life of the eponymous protagonist, an orphan who grows up in an unidentified country in South America...
as Justa Valdéz.
Ferrer, who is absolutely against plastic surgery, has always been admired by her beauty that seems impossible to be marked by the passage of time.
Telenovelas
- 2010-2011: Eva LunaEva LunaEva Luna is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in 1985 and translated from Spanish to English by Margaret Sayers Peden.Eva Luna takes us into the life of the eponymous protagonist, an orphan who grows up in an unidentified country in South America...
(USA) Univision as Justa Valdéz - 2007-2008: Pecados AjenosPecados AjenosPecados Ajenos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love This telenovela was sold to 16 countries around the world.Pecados Ajenos...
(USA) Telemundo as Agata Mercenario - 2005: Inocente de TíInocente de TiInocente de Ti is a Miami-based 130 episode telenovela that first aired on the Univision network in 2005. It features Camila Sodi, Valentino Lanús, and Helena Rojo.-Plot:...
(USA-Mexico) Televisa as Gabriela Smith - 2003: Amor Descarado (USA) Telemundo as Morgana Atal
- 2001: SoledadSoledadSoledad is a Spanish word meaning solitude or loneliness. It is also a female given name. It may also refer to:-Places:* Soledad, California* Soledad, Atlántico, Colombia* Soledad Atzompa, Veracruz, Mexico* Soledad Correctional Training Facility...
(Perú) ATV as Victoria Alvarez Calderon - 1999: Rosalinda (Mexico) Televisa as Valeria del Castillo de Altamirano
- 1997: Destino de MujerDestino de mujerDestino de mujer is a Venezuelan telenovela which starred Sonya Smith, Jorge Reyes, Lupita Ferrer and Tatiana Capote. It was produced and broadcast on Venevisión in 1997.-Cast:* Sonya Smith...
(Venezuela) Venevision as Aurora - 1995: MoreliaMorelia (telenovela)Morelia is Mexican telenovela which starred Alpha Acosta, Arturo Peniche and Cecilia Bolocco. It was the first Mexican soap opera filmed in the city of Miami, it was produced and broadcast on Televisa in 1995–1996, Univision in 1996 and 2000–2001, Galavisión in 1998, and TeleFutura in 2003–2004...
(USA-Mexico) Televisa as Ofelia Santibanez Campos Miranda - 1995: Nada PersonalNada PersonalNada Personal may refer to:* Nada Personal , by Soda Stereo* Nada personal * "Nada Personal" , theme song to the TV series, by Armando Manzanero...
(Mexico) TV Azteca as Maria Dolores de los Reyes - 1993: Rosangelica (Venezuela) Venevisión as Cecilia Gel de la Rosa
- 1992: Las Dos DianasLas dos DianasLas dos Dianas is a Venezuelan telenovela which starred Carlos Mata, Nohely Arteaga, Lupita Ferrer and Astrid Carolina Herrera. It was produced and broadcast on Marte TV in 1992.-Cast:* Carlos Mata...
(Venezuela) Marte TV as Catalina - 1988: Amándote II (Argentina) Sonotex Artear as Lisette
- 1988: Amándote (Argentina) Sonotex Crustel as Lisette
- 1985: Cristal (telenovela)Cristal (telenovela)Cristal was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by Delia Fiallo and directed by Daniel Farías, Arturo Páez, and Tito Rojas...
(Venezuela) RCTV as Victoria Ascanio - 1984: Los Años Felices (Mexico) Televisa as Marcela
- 1980: Ligia Sandoval (Venezuela) Venevision as Patricia del Olmo
- 1979: Julia (Mexico) Televisa as Julia
- 1977: La Zulianita (Venezuela) Venevision as Martha Maria Dominguez
- 1974: Mariana de la NocheMariana de la nocheMariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.- Plot :...
(Venezuela) Televisa And Venevision as Mariana - 1973: María Teresa (Venezuela) Venevision as Maria Teresa Montiel
- 1970: Esmeralda (Venezuela) Venevision as Esmeralda
Album
- 1992: Tiemblo
- 1970: Esmeralda
External links
- Lupita Ferrer at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Lupita Ferrer in VenCOR