Amparo Grisales de Tessarolo (born Amparo Grisales Patiño September 19, 1956) is a Colombian actress. Best known for her role as Lucrecia Rivas in ''

The Mafia Dolls ''The Mafia Dolls'' (Spanish: ''Las muñecas de la mafia''), is a Colombian telenovela created by Andrés López and Juan Camilo Ferrand and that premiered on Caracol Televisión on 28 September 2009, based on the book ''Las fantásticas'' writt ...

.'' Also starred in the 2007

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serial ''

Madre Luna Madre means mother in many Romance languages, and it may also refer to: *Madré, a commune in the Mayenne department of northwestern France *Mądre, a village in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland *Isola Madre, an Italian islan ...

'' ("''Mother Moon''"). She also appeared with

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in a

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of the Peruvian song, "

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", from his 1994 Grammy-nominated album, ''

De Mi Alma Latina ''De Mi Alma Latina'' (also known as ''From My Latin Soul'') is a 1994 Latin music album by Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album of the year. Most of the tracks on the album are medleys of, i ...

''.

Career

Grisales acted in

telenovelas 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'' (P ...

''En cuerpo ajeno'' and ''La sombra del deseo.'' After living in Los Angeles for several years, she returned to Colombia to star in ''Madre Luna'' opposite

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in a role written for her. As RTI had begun co-producing series with the much larger

, she hoped to benefit from the airing of ''Madre Luna'' to US viewers and then return to Los Angeles. In 2011, Grisales began judging the reality show ''Yo me llamo.'' she remains with the program.

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* Colombian telenovela actresses Participants in Colombian reality television series Living people 1956 births {{Colombia-actor-stub