Maribel Guardia
Encyclopedia
Maribel del Rocío Fernández García (born May 29, 1959) is a Costa Rican actress, who works in Mexico
, and currently lives and resides in Miami, Florida
.
in 1968, going on to represent her country at the Miss World
and Miss Universe
contests. The Miss Universe pageant had been held in Acapulco
, and she received offers by Televisa
producer Sergio Bustamante to develop a career there, but she returned to her country, and months later she accepted, and left her mother and boyfriend.
show, alongside Manuel "El Loco" Valdés.
Guardia went on to make multiple telenovela
s (soap operas) and release a series of albums in the Norteña music genre.
Maribel Guardia has acted alongside some very important actors, including Andrés García
, Saul Lisazo
, and Joan Sebastian
. One of her major soap opera hits was alongside Sebastian. Together, they filmed Tú y yo. One film where she acted alongside Andrés García
was Pedro Navaja
, where she played the main character's wife. She also did a film that was called El Rey de Los Taxistas alongside Luis de Alba. She and another El Rey de Los Taxistas costar, Aida Pierce
, would reteam for the telenovela Serafin
.
Recently she has done telenovelas made for children. She has also done a comedy in 2006 that is called Que Madre, Tan Padre as well as the variety show
, Muévete. In 2007, she was included in the book Televisa Presenta, which commemorated fifty years of network television in Mexico.
In 2008 she released a new album, the main single is "De Pecho A Pecho" (From Chest To Chest) written by the Nicaraguan composer, songwriter and singer Hernaldo Zúñiga
.
Apart from her jobs as an actress and singer, she has also modeled for various calendars and magazines, which are sold to her fans.
Since late 2009 she lives in her own residence in Miami Beach at Florida
, with her son.
For her work in movies, television and as a recording artist, Guardia has been inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias
in Mexico City
.
In January 2010 she announced that she worked all 2009 in a new studio album, set to be released on February 13, 2010, under EMI Music, titled "Move You On - Muévete", which it contains 12 tracks recorded in Mexico City
, Texas
& Colombia
, 8 tracks are in Spanish language, the other 4 are in English language.
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, and currently lives and resides in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
.
Miss Universe and Miss World
Maribel was elected Miss Costa RicaMiss Costa Rica
Miss Costa Rica is an annual national beauty pageant that selects Costa Rica's representative to the Miss Universe pageant since 1954.The current titleholder is Johanna Solano from Heredia...
in 1968, going on to represent her country at the Miss World
Miss World 1978
Miss World 1978, the 28th Miss World pageant, was held on November 16, 1978 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Silvana Suárez from Argentina...
and Miss Universe
Miss Universe 1978
Miss Universe 1978, the 27th Miss Universe pageant, was held at Centro de Convenciones de Acapulco, Acapulco, Mexico on July 24, 1978. Seventy-five contestants competed in the event....
contests. The Miss Universe pageant had been held in Acapulco
Acapulco
Acapulco is a city, municipality and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history...
, and she received offers by Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
producer Sergio Bustamante to develop a career there, but she returned to her country, and months later she accepted, and left her mother and boyfriend.
Acting and Singing Career
Guardia moved to Mexico in 1980; this move proved to be crucial for her show business career. In 1980, she appeared in her first televisionTelevision
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
show, alongside Manuel "El Loco" Valdés.
Guardia went on to make multiple 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 (soap operas) and release a series of albums in the Norteña music genre.
Maribel Guardia has acted alongside some very important actors, including Andrés García
Andrés García
Andrés García is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He is known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States....
, Saul Lisazo
Saul Lisazo
Saul Lisazo is an Argentine actor and ex-footballer.-About Saul:Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi is one of 6 siblings: Maria, Fernanda, Araceli, Alejandro, Mauricio, and Vanina. One event in his childhood that marked him was the death of his father when he only was 12 years old...
, and Joan Sebastian
Joan Sebastian
Joan Sebastian is a popular Mexican singer and songwriter. He has composed hundreds of songs and been a regular staple on the top-40 charts in Mexico since his career began in 1977. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music...
. One of her major soap opera hits was alongside Sebastian. Together, they filmed Tú y yo. One film where she acted alongside Andrés García
Andrés García
Andrés García is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He is known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States....
was Pedro Navaja
Pedro Navaja
Pedro Navaja is a salsa song written and performed by Rubén Blades from the 1978 album Siembra, about a criminal of the same name. "Navaja" means knife or razor in Spanish. Inspired by the song Mack the Knife, it tells the story of a panderer's life and his presumed death...
, where she played the main character's wife. She also did a film that was called El Rey de Los Taxistas alongside Luis de Alba. She and another El Rey de Los Taxistas costar, Aida Pierce
Aida Pierce
Aida Maria Zerecero Pierce is a Mexican actress and comedienne, best known internationally for her work on various telenovelas and comedy series that have aired on Televisa over the years. Most of her television series have aired on television networks in other countries, most notably Univision...
, would reteam for the telenovela Serafin
Serafin
Serafin is the rock band from London who formed and began playing in September 2000.Often compared to almost anything in the rock industry, Serafin's sound is sometimes compared to bands like Pixies, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo, Radiohead, Blur and Jacob's Mouse.-History :The original...
.
Recently she has done telenovelas made for children. She has also done a comedy in 2006 that is called Que Madre, Tan Padre as well as the variety show
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
, Muévete. In 2007, she was included in the book Televisa Presenta, which commemorated fifty years of network television in Mexico.
In 2008 she released a new album, the main single is "De Pecho A Pecho" (From Chest To Chest) written by the Nicaraguan composer, songwriter and singer Hernaldo Zúñiga
Hernaldo Zúñiga
Hernaldo Zúñiga is a Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Managua but lived his childhood and adolescence in Masaya.-Career:...
.
Apart from her jobs as an actress and singer, she has also modeled for various calendars and magazines, which are sold to her fans.
Since late 2009 she lives in her own residence in Miami Beach at Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, with her son.
For her work in movies, television and as a recording artist, Guardia has been inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias
Plaza de las Estrellas
Plaza de las Estrellas is a shopping center located in Mexico City. It was built in 1982. It is best known as the site of the Paseo de las Luminarias, the Mexican equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
.
In January 2010 she announced that she worked all 2009 in a new studio album, set to be released on February 13, 2010, under EMI Music, titled "Move You On - Muévete", which it contains 12 tracks recorded in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
& Colombia
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...
, 8 tracks are in Spanish language, the other 4 are in English language.
Telenovelas
- 2010: Niña de mi corazón
- 2007: Al diablo con los guaposAl Diablo con los GuaposAl Diablo con los Guapos is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the remake of the Argentinian super hit "Muñeca Brava" with Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana.-Plot:...
.... Rosario / ... - 2007: ¡Qué madre, tan padre! .... Maribel Galicia
- 2006: Muévete TV Show .... Host
- 2004: Misión S.O.S. aventura y amor .... Ximena Aranda
- 2003: La decada furiosa .... Host
- 2003: Gran musical
- 2001: Aventuras en el tiempoAventuras en el tiempoAventuras En El Tiempo is a Mexican telenovela from 2001, presented completely in Spanish, and featuring a young pre-teen girl named Violeta.-Synopsis:...
.... Flor del Huerto - 1999: Reclusorio III
- 1999: Serafín .... Carmen
- 1998: ¿Qué nos pasa?
- 1996: Tú y yo (telenovela)|Tú y yo .... Estela
- 1995: Los cómplices del infierno
- 1994: A ritmo de salsa
- 1994: La pura .... Pura
- 1994: Le pegaron al gordo (La Lotería II)
- 1994: Prisionera de amor .... Cristina
- 1993: El asesino del zodíaco .... Lisa aka "Un instante para morir"
- 1992: Aquí, el que no corre... vuela
- 1992: Filtraciones
- 1991: El jinete de la divina providencia
- 1991: Mujer de cabaret
- 1991: Perseguida
- 1991: Donde quedo el colorado
- 1990: Muerto al hoyo... y el vivo tambien
- 1990: El inocente y las pecadoras
- 1989: El cuatrero
- 1989: Rey de los taxistas
- 1989: A garrote limpio
- 1988: Furia en la sangre
- 1987: Ser charro es ser Mexicano
- 1987: El gato negro
- 1987: Ases del contrabando
- 1987: Las traigo muertas
- 1987: RelampagoRelampagoRelampago is a fictional character, a comic book superhero self-published by creator Judge Margarito C. Garza. The character made his first appearance in Relampago! #1 making him the first Mexican American superhero in the American comic book industry. The character's debut series only ran for...
.... Monica - 1986: La Alacrana
- 1986: Matanza en Matamoros
- 1986: SeducciónSeducción"Seducción" is the third single from Thalía's tenth studio album El Sexto Sentido . The song was written by Estéfano and Julio Reyes and produced by Estéfano...
- 1986: Un hombre violento .... Lucia Castillano
- 1985: De todas... todas!
- 1985: Contrato con la muerte
- 1985: Terror y encajes negros .... Isabel Martinez
- 1985: La pulquería ataca de nuevo .... Querida
- 1985: Vuelven los pistoleros famosos III
- 1984: Pedro NavajaPedro NavajaPedro Navaja is a salsa song written and performed by Rubén Blades from the 1978 album Siembra, about a criminal of the same name. "Navaja" means knife or razor in Spanish. Inspired by the song Mack the Knife, it tells the story of a panderer's life and his presumed death...
.... Rosa - 1984: La muerte cruzó el río Bravo .... Cristina
- 1984: Macho que ladra no muerde
- 1983: Pistoleros famosos II
- 1982: Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera, su verdadera historia
- 1982: El Broncozzzzzzzzzzzzz
- 1981: Como México no hay dos
- 1973: El diablo en persona
External links
- Official website, Maribel Guardia Maribel Guardia @esmas.com