Mercedes Gloria Scápola Morán (born April 25, 1975 in

Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

) is an

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actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. She became famous thanks to the 2012 soap opera ''

Graduados ''Graduados'' () is a 2012 Argentine telenovela that was broadcast by Telefe from March 12 to December 19. The plot concerns a group of people who graduated from high school in 1989 and reunite twenty years later. The main character, Andrés G ...

'' and the 2014 soap opera '' Guapas'', both telenovelas''.'' She is the daughter of actress

Mercedes Morán Mercedes Beatriz Morán (; born 1955) is an Argentine actress, known for her role in the television miniseries '' Culpables''. Early life and career Morán was born in Concarán, San Luis Province in 1955. Her mother was an "ultra-Catholic" r ...

Biography

Mercedes Scápola Morán is the daughter of actress

. She studied theatre under Agustín Alezzo and Julio Chávez. She ceased using the last name "Morán" to avoid being confused with her mother, who already was a famous actress.

Career

She worked in the successful 2012 soap opera ''

'', playing housekeeper "Clarita." She joined the cast when the production was almost completed, and received a character that the writers initially considered a minor one. Her character was drafted as a humble Paraguayan; Scápola proposed instead to make it a native of the Córdoba Province, and always fussing about the house's condition. As it was her first major success in television and she did not spoof the slang from the Córdoba Province, and many fans mistook her for an actual native of the province. She was fluent in slang because her grandparents lived in that province, and she had already tried for it the film '' Rancho aparte''. Mercedes Morán made a brief cameo in that soap opera as the mother of her character. Scápola got pregnant during the airing of the program, so the scripts made her character become pregnant as well. Her son León was born in 2013. Scápola returned to work in the 2014 soap opera '' Guapas''. Her mother Mercedes Morán works in it as well. As they both enjoyed the cameo in ''Graduados'', their characters are again mother and daughter within the plot.

Filmography

Television

Movies

Theater

Awards

Nominations

* Nominated for the

Tato Award The Tato Awards () are Argentine awards for television, released by the CAPIT (Cámara Argentina de Productoras Independientes de Televisión). The award is named "Tato" as an homage to the late Tato Bores Mauricio Borensztein (27 April 1925 ...

2009 as new actress

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scapola, Mercedes 1975 births Living people Actresses from Buenos Aires Argentine film actresses Argentine telenovela actresses Argentine television actresses Argentine stage actresses 20th-century Argentine actresses 21st-century Argentine actresses