María Aurelia Bisutti was an Argentine

Argentina

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 film

Film

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 and TV actress, with over 50 Argentine cinema and television credits between 1948 and 1993, as well as numerous roles in the theatre.

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, she received her first film roles in 1948 through a radio audition hosted by a popular variety show of the time, Diario del cine, and first worked with directors Benito Perojo

Benito Perojo

Benito Perojo , was a successful Spanish film director and film producer.-Selected Filmography as director:* El Negro que tenía el alma blanca.* Corazones sin rumbo.* La bodega....

 and Carlos Schlieper

Carlos Schlieper

Carlos Schlieper was an Argentine film director and screenwriter of the classic era.He directed some 30 films between 1939 and 1957, writing for over 20 of them, films such as Alejandra in 1956....

. Bisutti earned her first television role in a 1960 documentary on the lives of Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...

 and Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...

. She was given the lead role in Pedro Escudero's A puerta cerrada (1962), and starred in period piece

Period piece

-Setting:In the performing arts, a period piece is a work set in a particular era. This informal term covers all countries, all periods and all genres...

 filmmaker Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson , also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter....

's Martín Fierro

Martín Fierro (film)

Martín Fierro is a 1968 film based upon José Hernández's poem Martín Fierro, widely considered Argentina's national poem. The story centers on the life of a renegade gaucho....

 (1968). Bisutti also became well-known on the radio, starring in a number of soap opera

Soap opera

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s.

She received a Martín Fierro Award

Martín Fierro Awards

Martín Fierro is the name of the most prominent awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. The awards were first given in 1959, limited to television. The next year, the awards adopted its current name, after José...

 for lifetime achievement in 1999. She continued to work on the airwaves, starring in the public radio

LRA Radio Nacional

LRA Radio Nacional, also known as Radio Nacional Argentina, is the Argentine national radio, and part of the national public media system. It started transmitting in 1937 as LRA Radio del Estado changing its name to the current one in 1957...

 series, Las dos carátulas, from 2002.

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