América Barrio (1917–2001) was a Cuban
stage
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,
television
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and
film actress
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.
Biography
America Barrio born in
Santiago de Cuba
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The municipality extends over , and contains t ...
(11 September 1917) since she was just a girl she participated on all her school cultural acts.
When she was 12 years old she started singing on birthday parties and charities.
America Barrio study music and
singing theory in the Municipal Conservatory of Havana, (today called
Amadeo Roldan Conservatory).
She couldn't make much of a career on
lyric singing so she started working on radio stations on music programs. On that time she met Juan Manuel Jorge Reyes an actor and director of live
radio plays
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.
He needed an actress for one of the radio productions at that time. America was the perfect match, but she didn't think she was experience enough.
Jorge Reyes hired her anyway and since then they work together on cinema, theater, tv and radio.
Selected filmography
Films
*''1950,
The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon.''
*1942, ''
Pobre hija mía.''
*1951 ''
Six Months of Life''
Television
* 1964, ''
Historia de tres hermanas''.(
RCTV
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)
* 1970, ''
Cristina
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*Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile), 11th-century English princess
*Cristina (singer), Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American s ...
''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Graciela Lopez-Castro
* 1971, ''
La usurpadora La usurpadora may refer to:
* ''La usurpadora'' (Venezuelan TV series), a 1971 Salvadorian telenovela starring Marina Baura and Raúl Amundaray.
* ''La usurpadora'' (1998 TV series), a 1998 Mexican telenovela starring Gaby Spanic and Fernando Colun ...
''.(
RCTV
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) - Fidelia
* 1972, ''
Sacrificio de mujer''.(
RCTV
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) - Leonor
* 1972, ''
La doña''.(
RCTV
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) - Genoveva
* 1973, ''
La italianita
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Marina Bau ...
''.(
RCTV
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) - Dionisia
* 1973, ''
Raquel
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''.(
RCTV
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) - Tía Leoacadia.
* 1974, ''
Bárbara''.
* 1976, ''
Carolina''.(
RCTV
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) - María.
* 1977, ''
Iliana (telenovela)''.(
RCTV
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)
* 1978, ''
La fiera
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''.(
RCTV
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)
* 1979, ''
Mabel Valdez, periodista''.(
RCTV
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)
* 1979, ''
Estefanía''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña María Gracia De Cataldo
* 1981, ''
Luisana mía''.(
RCTV
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) - Luisa
* 1982, ''
Jugando a vivir''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Amalia
* 1983, ''
Leonela
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''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Marta
* 1983, ''
Bienvenida Esperanza
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Mayra Alejandra and ...
''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Mercedes de Trias
* 1985, ''
Topacio (telenovela)''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Hortensia Vda. de Andrade
* 1985, ''
Cristal''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Lucrecia De Bellorin
* 1986, ''
Atrévete
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Caridad Canelón and Pedro Lander starred as the protagonists.
Cas ...
''.(
RCTV
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)
* 1987, ''
Selva María
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Mariela Alcalá and Franklin Virgüez starred as the p ...
''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Mirita
* 1988, ''
Alma mía
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Cast
* Cristina Allende .... Madre Valeria
* Valeria ...
''.(
RCTV
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) - Providencia Monagas
* 1988, ''
Abigail
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''.(
RCTV
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) - Madre Teresa
* 1989, ''
Pobre negro''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña Águeda De Alcorta
* 1990, ''
Anabel
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''.(
RCTV
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) - Doña María
* 1992, ''
Por estas calles
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''.(
RCTV
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) -
* 1998, ''
Cambio de piel''.(
RCTV
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)
References
Bibliography
* Rist, Peter H. ''Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
External links
*
1917 births
2001 deaths
Cuban film actresses
Cuban stage actresses
Cuban television actresses
People from Santiago de Cuba
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