Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas (born 23 April 1980)[1] is a Venezuelan actress, model, and singer of Portuguese descent.[2] She is known worldwide for her villainous roles in telenovelas.[1]

Marjorie de Sousa
De Sousa in December 2017
Born	Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas (1980-04-23) 23 April 1980 (age 42) Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Venezuelan
Occupation	Actress model singer
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Ricardo Álamo ​ ​ (m. 2004; div. 2006)​
Partner	Julián Gil (2016–2017)
Children	1
Website	marjoriedesousa.tv

Career

1999–2009: Beginnings and notable roles

At age 12, De Sousa began her career doing television commercials and working as a model.[3][1] In 1999, she entered the beauty pageant Miss Venezuela in the hands of the famous Venezuelan designer Giovanni Scutaro.[1][3] A year later, she worked on her first telenovela, Amantes de luna llena,[1] which was produced and broadcast by the television channel Venevisión.[1] In 2001, she co-starred in the hit telenovela Guerra de mujeres, with the character Carolina, one of the most popular in the plot.[3] In 2002, De Sousa left Venezuela to work on the telenovela Gata Salvaje, a co-production of Venevisión and the Spanish-American channel Univision.[4] In this internationally acclaimed novel, she plays Camelia Valente, an antagonist in which she has perhaps been one of her best characters, achieving her international projection.[4][5] At the end of that production, De Sousa went to work on the Mexican telenovela Mariana de la Noche, produced by Televisa; there her character had the name of Carol, also as an antagonist.[5] Next, she worked on another successful Univision telenovela called Rebeca, where she had the character of Gisela,[6] another role where she acted as an antagonist. In 2005, she starred in the telenovela Ser bonita no basta of the TV channel Radio Caracas Televisión.[7] A year later she returned to star in another telenovela of RCTV,[7] Y los declaro marido y mujer, a beach production set in Venezuela's Margarita Island.[7] In 2007, De Sousa began to work in the cast of the telenovela Amor comprado,[1] produced by Venevisión; with a character as villain of the plot called Margot.[1] Two years later, she becomes the antagonist of the telenovela Pecadora next to Eduardo Capetillo and Litzy where she began to have skills as a singer interpreting the theme of her character and the protagonist.[6]

2010–present: Critical success in telenovelas

In 2010, De Sousa appeared in Sacrificio de mujer, alongside Luis José Santander and its directed by Adriana Barraza.[8] In 2011, she played an antagonist in a special participation in Corazón apasionado alongside Guy Ecker and Marlene Favela.[9] That same year she starred in the new video of the song "Poquito a Poquito" by Henry Santos, former member of the band Aventura.[10] In films, she participated in the films Duelos de pasarela y soltera and Sin compromiso.[1] In 2012, she made her theatrical debut at Toc Toc, a world-renowned work, and received the best critics of the industry after her unique and original interpretation of Lili.[11] That year she also received the Prize for Best Female Protagonist in the United States for her extraordinary performance of Clemencia Sacrificio de mujer.[12] It was that year, when De Sousa returned to Televisa under the hand of producer Nicandro Díaz González in the telenovela of Amores verdaderos as an antagonist of the story,[13] due to the success of her character in the telenovela, she won the prize as Best Antagonist in a telenovela at the TVyNovelas Awards.[14] In 2013, she joined the cast of the play Perfume de Gardenia, produced by Omar Suárez.[15] She also appeared in the fourth season of reality show ¡Mira quién baila!, being in third place.[16]

In 2014, De Sousa got her first lead on Televisa, in the telenovela Hasta el fin del mundo,[17] first paired with Pedro Fernández,[18] who left the project due to supposed problems with De Sousa,[18] and David Zepeda took the place of Fernández.[19] After Hasta el fin del mundo, she participated in 2016 in Juan Osorio's telenovela, Sueño de amor, in which only as a guest star appeared.[20] After being absent from television for one year, in 2017 she signed an exclusive contract with the Spanish-language television network Telemundo.[21] The network began filming the telenovela Al otro lado del muro, alongside Litzy that debut on 21 February 2018.[22]

In October 2020, De Sousa Participated on the Reality Show of the Spanish Version of “The Masked Singer”, ¿Quién es la máscara? on the 2nd Season as a Banana, and was eliminated on the 2nd Episode.[23]

Personal life

De Sousa married to Venezuelan actor Ricardo Álamo in 2004 and divorced in 2006.[24] In 2016, she had a romantic relationship with Argentine-born Puerto Rican actor Julián Gil with whom she had her first son name Matías Gregorio Gil de Sousa,[25][26] the relationship between De Sousa and Gil ended in 2017 in unfavorable terms.[27]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marjorie de Sousa.

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• Marjorie de Sousa at IMDb

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