Ruddy Rosario Rodríguez de Lucía (; born March 20, 1967) is a Venezuelan actress, businesswoman, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela World 1985. She represented Venezuela in the 1985

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pageant in England where she placed in the top seven.

Career

She made four calendars (1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995), being the first Venezuelan actress whose calendars were sold in other countries: Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Russia.

Business

She once promoted a line of swim suits. Rodríguez is now promoting her own line of cosmetics. She has opened five stores: two in

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, one in

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, one in

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and one in

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known as ''"Ruddy Rodríguez Cosmetics"''. More stores are planned for Venezuela,

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, Ecuador and Miami.

Television

Ruddy Rodríguez is a popular actress in

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s (

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TV soap opera) and TV special series.

Theater

Before entering 1985

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, Rodríguez performed small theater roles. Since 1999 she has performing a

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: ''"Una mujer con suerte"'' (A Lucky Woman), written by her brother Romano. This monologue has been presented in

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, Miami,

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, Ecuador. She hopes to translate this monologue into English in the future.

Hollywood

Rodríguez had a short appearance (45 seconds) in the 1987

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film: '' The Living Daylights''.

Twenty years of artistic career

Because of Ruddy Rodríguez's 20 years of artistic career, a party in her honor was organized at the ''Gavanna Night Club'' in

on July 12, 2006. There were about 200 invitees from

and Miami; at this party, she stated that her career as a

actress was coming to an end in September 2006 after the taping of the last episode of the Colombian telenovela "La Ex" ( "The Ex," or, "The Former Wife") was filmed. But after that date, she has since filmed several more telenovelas.

Personal life

Although Rodríguez was born in

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, she grew up in Caracas where at the age of 15 she had her first boyfriend, her first kiss. In 1985 after the Miss World Beauty Contest, she insisted on traveling to Italy to know her grandfather. She traveled with her brother Romano to Savinno,

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in Italy and met their grandfather. Before their return, her grandfather said to her: ''porta a mia mamma perche io parto ad un lungo viaggio'' (Bring your mother, because I am going in a long trip), Ruddy went back to Venezuela, worked in her first telenovela, saved enough money and together with her mother Rita visited Italy again, stayed for 15 days and celebrated Ruddy's grandfather's 96th birthday. He died in peace the next day. In July 1995 she married to Rodolfo Pisani, a Venezuelan lawyer. They separated in 2005 and finally divorced on July 3, 2006, after more than ten years of marriage. After a decade of being just friends, since November 2006 actress Ruddy Rodríguez lived a romance with Colombian rejoneador Juan Rafael Restrepo Bello, whom she married on October 1, 2011, in

. On September 1, 2014, they separated "by mutual agreement", and got divorced January 23, 2015. Because Ruddy and her sister Rina are

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s, when Rina was pregnant, many people mistakenly talked about Ruddy Rodríguez pregnancy. She is daughter of Pedro José Rodríguez and Italian Rita de Lucía. She has a brother, Romano, and a sister, Rina.

Scientology

Since 2000, Ruddy Rodríguez has been a dedicated Scientologist. She is an active member of the Fundación "El camino a la felicidad" (''The Way to Happiness Foundation International''), which promotes the booklet ''"The way to happiness"'', written by the founder of the ''

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'': L. Ronald Hubbard.

Telenovelas and TV series

Filmography

References

External links

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