Venezuelan actress and model (born )
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Sousa and the second or maternal family name is Rivas.
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| Born | Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas () 23 April (age&#;44) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Occupations | |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Spouse | Ricardo Álamo &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Partner | Julián Gil (–) |
| Children | 1 |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | &#;cm (5&#;ft 8&#;in) |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Brown |
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| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Labels | MDS |
Musical artist | |
Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas (born 23 April )[1] is a Venezuelan actress, model and singer.[2] She was a candidate in the Miss Venezuela beauty pageant in She is known worldwide for her villainous roles in telenovelas.[1]
At age 12, de Sousa began her career doing television commercials and working as a model.[3][1] In , 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 , she co-starred in the hit telenovela Guerra de mujeres, with the character Carolina, one of the most popular in the plot.[3]
In , 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] 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. 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]
In , she starred in the telenovela Ser bonita no basta of the TV network RCTV.[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 , 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] She also participated in the films Soltera y sin compromiso () and Duelo de pasarelas ().[1]
In , de Sousa 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] In , she appeared in the telenovela Sacrificio de mujer, alongside Luis José Santander and its directed by Adriana Barraza.[8] That same year she starred in the video for the song "Poquito a Poquito" by Henry Santos, former member of Americanbachata group Aventura.[9]
In , she played an antagonist in a special participation in Corazón apasionado alongside Guy Ecker and Marlene Favela.[10] de Sousa 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 Miami Life Award in Best Female Protagonist category for her extraordinary performance as Clemencia in 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 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 Premios TVyNovelas.[14] In , 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 , 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 in Juan Osorio's telenovela, Sueño de amor, in which only as a guest star appeared.[20] In , 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 [22] In October , de Sousa Participated on the Reality Show of the Spanish Version of Masked Singer, ¿Quién es la máscara? in the 2nd Season as a Banana, and was eliminated on the 2nd Episode.[23]
de Sousa married to Venezuelan actor Ricardo Álamo in and divorced in [24] In , 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 in unfavorable terms.[27]
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orinoco | Unknown | Unknown | |
| Toc Toc | Lili | Several locations | |
| Perfume de gardenia | Gardenia Peralta | ||
| Hasta el fin del mundo Cantaré | Sofía Ripoll Bandy | ||
| ¿Por qué los hombres aman a las cabronas? | Dulce | ||
| El matrimonio perjudica seriamente la salud | Julia |
| Year | Title | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Poquito a Poquito" | Henry Santos | Introducing Henry Santos |
| Year | Title | Peaks | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Un Poquito Tuya" | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Morenito De Mi Amor" | — | ||
| "Ni Diabla Ni Santa" | — | ||
| "La Alegría de la Navidad" | — |