Beatriz Día Quiroga (19 October 1936 – 15 October 2016) was an Argentine radio and television actress.

Career

Quiroga began her career as a radio actress working in radio soap operas. She started with

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in a 1960 production of ''

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'', and Quiroga made such an impression on Ibáñez that she was a member of other works of Ibáñez, such as ''La pata del mono'' in 1961 and ''El muñeco maldito'' the following year, thus firmly establishing herself in the Argentinian television scene. She received the

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in 1960 for her work. In 1961, Quiroga and Jorge Salcedo played in the

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''Un porvenir en la baldosa roja'' and in 1964 performed alongside Fernando Siro in ''La novela Odol de la tarde''. Other incursions into television include ' (1972), ''Alguna vez, algún día'' (1976) and in 1985 when she collaborated with Ibañez again for '' Black Octopus''. In radio, she participated in several broadcasts of ''Las dos carátulas''. The only Quiroga's work in a film was in 1948, when she played a minor role in ''Tierra del Fuego'', by

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. On 15 October 2016, Beatriz Día Quiroga died in Buenos Aires.

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