Adita Riera (born 19 July 1948,

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

) is a Venezuelan

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

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, and model. She starred in several soap operas for

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, the first being '' with Humberto Garcia.

Biography

Ada Graciela García was born to in

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. From 1954 to 1967, she studied at the La Consolacion school and graduated with a Bachelor of Science. This was followed up, from 1968 to 1972, with a degree in communications from

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. Riera debuted as an actress and model for

's Channel 4 in 1962. Her theater debut was a 1964 production of ''

Blood Wedding ''Blood Wedding'' ( es, link=no, Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

''. Three years later, Riera performed in her first soap opera, ''Sor Alegría''. She retired from soap operas in 1980, but returned to perform in radio soap operas in 2004 and in

telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...

s in 2006.

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