Margalida Castro
Encyclopedia
Margalida Castro is a Colombia
n theatre
and television
actress, born 19 November 1943 in San Gil
, Santander
.
Ms Castro grew up in Bogotá
and studied music
as a child. She entered Universidad Nacional de Colombia to study Architecture
; she also studied flute
and was part of the university's orchestra
, but she dropped her studies after meeting playwright
Carlos Perozzo, with whom she would be married for six years. Her debut on Colombian television would be on the 1967 series La tercera palabra, directed by Bernardo Romero Lozano. Ever since she would appear in dozens of theatre plays and Colombian telenovela
s and television series.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
actress, born 19 November 1943 in San Gil
San Gil
San Gil is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.-Monuments:*Statue of Antonia Santos, one of the great figures of the Colombian Independence Struggle. This sculpture by Colombian artist Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo is located in the main park in San Gil.-External...
, Santander
Santander Department
Santander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte...
.
Ms Castro grew up in Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
and studied music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
as a child. She entered Universidad Nacional de Colombia to study Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
; she also studied flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
and was part of the university's orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
, but she dropped her studies after meeting playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
Carlos Perozzo, with whom she would be married for six years. Her debut on Colombian television would be on the 1967 series La tercera palabra, directed by Bernardo Romero Lozano. Ever since she would appear in dozens of theatre plays and Colombian telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s and television series.
Selected filmography
- El secretarioEl secretarioEl secretario is a 2011 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV.-Plot:30-year-old Emilio Romero was living in New York working as a pizza delivery guy, despite his background in finances. He finds out through a Facebook-like social network that he has a 6-year-old daughter in...
(Caracol TVCaracol TVCaracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...
, 2011) as Gertrudis Dudis Buenahora - Chepe FortunaChepe FortunaChepe Fortuna is a colombian soap opera produced by RCN Televisión. Its mains stars are model and runner up for Miss Universe Taliana Vargas and model and actor Javier Jattin, both of them born in Colombia. With them, there is a complete casting of very well known Colombian actors and actresses....
(RCN TVRCN TVRCN Televisión , is a Colombian private television network. It started as a production company in 1967...
, 2010) as Úrsula - La viuda de la mafia (RCN TV, 2005)
- La venganzaLa Venganza (2002 telenovela)La Venganza , is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 127 episodes from November 4, 2002 to May 16, 2003...
(RTIRTI ColombiaRTI Colombia, also known as Radio Televisión Interamericana , is a Colombian television production company. It aired 14.5 per week of programming each week in 1993....
/ Caracol TV / TelemundoTelemundoTelemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
, 2002) - Luzbel está de visita (RTI / Caracol TV, 2001)
- A dónde va Soledad (Tevecine / RCN TV, 2000)
- Yo amo a Paquita GallegoYo amo a Paquita GallegoYo amo a Paquita Gallego is loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and is a Spanish language telenovela. The serial drama features the typical love-hate scenarios found in primetime television soap operas...
(RTI / Canal ACanal ACanal A was a Colombian state-owned privately run national television channel. It was launched March 27, 1972 as Segunda Cadena, since it was the second television channel in Colombia, and replacing Tele 9 Corazón...
, 1998) as María Isabel Vargas aka tía Chavela - María bonitaMaria BonitaMaria Bonita is a romance novel, one of a trilogy, based on the story of Maria, the wife of João Lopes da Costa Pinho. João Lopes da Costa Pinho emigrated to Brazil from Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal. Some say he arrived barefoot but he went on to be immensely wealthy, owning some 32 cattle and...
(RTI Colombia / Cadena Uno, 1996) - Solo una mujer (Caracol TV / Cadena Uno, 1995)
- Caballo viejoCaballo Viejo"Caballo Viejo" is a Venezuelan folk song created by Simón Díaz, which appears on the 1980 album Caballo Viejo. It has become one of the most important folk songs in Venezuela and is already regarded as a classic....
(Caracol TV / Cadena 2Canal ACanal A was a Colombian state-owned privately run national television channel. It was launched March 27, 1972 as Segunda Cadena, since it was the second television channel in Colombia, and replacing Tele 9 Corazón...
, 1988) as La sietelenguas - Gallito Ramírez (1986) as Sussy Borda Lavalle)
- El taxista millonario (film, 1979)
- Yo y túYo y túYo y tú was a long-running Colombian situation comedy, created by Spanish-born actress Alicia del Carpio. During its 20 year run on Sunday evenings, around 175 of the most famous Colombian actors appeared on it....
(Canal NacionalCanal UnoCanal Uno is the first Colombian national television channel. It started 13 June 1954 on Channel 8 in Bogotá. It is state-owned, operated by Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia, and privately-run, with programming companies known as programadoras bidding for time slots with the Colombian...
, 1968) as Gringa Peggy