Luiseth Emiliana Materán Bolaño (born 14 July 1996) is a Venezuelan actress, journalist, TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was appointed as Miss Universe Venezuela 2021. She represented the state of Miranda at the

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pageant and represented Venezuela in

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, Israel. In 2022, she represented Venezuela at

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where she placed 3rd Runner Up.

Life and career

Early life

Materán was born in

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, Miranda. Before participating in the Miss Venezuela pageant she obtained a bachelor's degree with honors in Social Communications specializated in Publicity and Audiovisual Arts given by

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. After that, she became in CCO of Red Social de Conocimiento CEOS. By other side, Luiseth has encouraged in the world of acting. In January 2019, the recordings of a production began in which Materán hopes to debut on television with '' Intrigas tras cámaras'', a telenovela written by Carmelo Castro based on an original text by Henry Galué and produced by Quimera Vision.

Pageantry

Miss Globe Venezuela 2015

Materán began her pageantry career in regional competitions for the state of Miranda. In 2015, she participated in Miss Globe Venezuela representing Miranda where she was crowned the winner. Therefore, it was up to her to represent Venezuela in the international competition in Turkey, but at that time there were terrorist attacks in Istanbul and she was not given the opportunity to travel to that country.

Miss Venezuela 2020

After being selected to represent her home state of Miranda at

, Materán competed with other 21 candidates for the title. She was a Top 5 finalist.

Miss Universe Venezuela 2021

On Friday, July 2, 2021, in a special event broadcast, Luiseth Materán, Miss Miranda and a Top 5 finalist of

, was announced as Miss Universe Venezuela 2021 by the Miss Venezuela Organization. In early August 2021, she joined as a guest host for Venevisión's morning magazine Portada's as part of her preparation for the Miss Universe 2021 pageant. On August 27, 2021, she attended a cultural meeting at the facilities of the Confederation of Israelite Associations of Venezuela, where she was received by its board of directors made up of Mr. Saúl Levine, Mr. Abraham Waimberg and Mr. Miguel Truzman, representing the

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of that country. On September 4, 2021, thanks to the support of non-profit organizations such as Made in Venezuela, Hopes without Borders and Funda Crecer, she participated in a social work in the Ramo Verde community of Miranda state, where she donated food, drinking water and medicines to the population of that humble Venezuelan neighborhood. On September 5, 2021, she began a new season as host of the

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program, ''Más allá de la belleza'' (in English: ''Beyond Beauty''), along with

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(Miss Venezuela Universe 2020),

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(Miss Venezuela World 2020) and Isbel Parra (Miss International Venezuela 2020); sharing all the news and preparations for their international contests, as well as the details of the preparations for the

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competition. On October 20, 2021, she attended a cultural and social meeting at the Club Hebraica sports center in Caracas, where she shared with the board of directors and with young people of Jewish origin. On October 28, 2021, Luiseth was officially crowned as Miss Venezuela Universe 2021 during the

event.

Miss Universe 2021

As Miss Universe Venezuela, Materán represented

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at the

pageant in

, Israel, and finished in the Top 16.

Miss Grand International 2022

Materán concluded as third runner-up at

pageant in

, Indonesia.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Materan, Luiseth Living people 1996 births Venezuelan beauty pageant winners Venezuelan female models Venezuelan actresses People from Los Teques Miss Universe 2021 contestants Miss Venezuela winners Miss Grand International 2022 delegates