Amneris Morales (born July 7, 1958) is a Puerto Rican television, theater and film actress.
Biography
Morales is a native of
Puerto Rico's capital of San Juan.
She expressed a desire to become an actress since age 5, and she was immediately signed onto acting classes under actress and teacher
Victoria Espinoza.
Later on, Morales joined the
University of Puerto Rico
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, studying psychology and acting there, the latter under well-known Puerto Rican playwright,
Dean Zayas
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. She decided to study psychology in order to apply those studies when performing as an actress by giving her characterizations a psychological edge.
Acting career
Soon, Morales began a television acting career which saw her act in some of the most famous
telenovela
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s in Puerto Rican television history, such as
canal 4's "
Yo Se Que Mentia", '
Vivir Para Ti" and "
Poquita Cosa". Morales was a prolific television actress in Puerto Rico during that era.
After a stint acting in
Argentina
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(where she appeared in a series of telenovelas), Morales moved in 2016, to
New York, New York
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, where she has been busy in theater with an organization named "Repertorio Español" ("Spanish Repertoire") with which she has acted in a
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play named "La Casa de Bernarda Alba" ("Bernarda Alba's House") and "Un Matrimonio a La Caribeña" ("Caribbean Style Matrimony"). She has also organized a film festival, named the "Frenzy Short Film Fest".
Personal life
Morales was married for nine days to the legendary Puerto Rican actor,
Miguel Angel Suarez during 2009, before he died of cancer that same year.
The couple had lived together for 14 years.
By 2012, she announced on the Puerto Rican newspaper,
El Nuevo Dia
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, that she was dating a lawyer.
Morales was sued by Suarez's daughter, Alondra Suárez Huddo, for the amount that Morales was going to receive from residuals due to the late actor from his various participations in Hollywood films (most notably, 1980's
Stir Crazy), which was sent by the
Screen Actors Guild
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and which was now going to Morales' hands.
Morales is the mother of actress
Belange Rodriguez, and the two once competed against each other for an
Ace award
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, for their mutual participation in a play named "Julia de Burgos, Criatura del Agua" ("Julia de Burgos, Water Creature") about the life of Puerto Rican poet
Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos García (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet. As an advocate of Puerto Rican independence, she served as Secretary General of the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican National ...
, which was shown in New York City.
See also
*
List of Puerto Ricans
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morales, Amneris
1958 births
Living people
Puerto Rican actresses
Actresses from San Juan, Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico alumni