Silvia Beatriz Pérez Ardiles (Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 19, 1955), known as Silvia Pérez, is a renowned Argentine actress and model.
Biography
In 1974, Silvia Pérez won the “Miss Siete Días” beauty pageant. Then she was “Miss Argentina.” Having won these two contests allowed her to work as a model. Thus, she was a model and mannequin until 1980, and she started on television when she was called for the Frac program Humor para la Noche. She studied theatre with Alberto Ure, Julio Chávez, Carlos Gandolfo and Augusto Fernández.
On television, he worked in programs such as Los Hijos de López (by Hugo Moser), Operación Ja Já (by Gerardo Sofovich), Las Comedias de Darío Vittori (with Darío Vittori), Amo y Señor (soap opera with Arnaldo André), Zona de Riesgo ( with Gerardo Romano and Rodolfo Ranni) and It doesn’t touch the button (with Alberto Olmedo, by Hugo Sofovich).
In theatre, she was, among others, in the shows Los Galancitos and Los Días Felices, as well as several comedies in the summer seasons from 1981 to 1988, such as El Negro no Podemos (with Alberto Olmedo).
Silvia has been identified as one of the “Olmedo Girls”, a nickname given to the actresses and vedettes who were working with the comedian Alberto Olmedo at the time of his tragic death, such as Susana Romero, Beatriz Salomón, Divina Gloria and Adriana Brodsky. But after the death of Alberto Olmedo, Silvia had an extensive artistic career, participating in numerous television, theatre, and film productions.
In cinema, she participated in films such as The Flea in the Ear, El Manosanta Esta Carga (by Hugo Sofovich), La Disco del Amor (by Adolfo Aristarain) and The Punk Professor.
Her first leading role in cinema is with the film Encarnación, directed by Anahí Berneri, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Sebastián Festival and was selected at the Toronto Festival.
During 2009 and 2010, she played the role of Ethel Molinari in the soap opera Botineras from Tuesday to Friday on Telefe. In 2012, she returned to television in the Pol-ka comedy Los Únicos. In it, she plays René, Mía’s mother (Emilia Attias), a fearless woman who has the gift of blending into her environment like a chameleon. For Telefe, she works in the soap opera Dulce Amor, playing Teresita, an alcoholic woman.
Personal life
Silvia Pérez has only one daughter, Julieta Bal, due to her relationship with Santiago Bal. After some events that marked her life, she had a robust spiritual conversion, being a faithful follower of Sai Baba and having travelled to India 13 times.
Source: Wikipedia
