Marjorie de Sousa

Marjorie de Sousa (born Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas; 23 April 1980)[1] is a Venezuelan actress and model of Portuguese descent,[2] The Sousa[3] Family is of noble origin and of Visigoth[4] ancestry. 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 23 April 1980 Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Venezuelan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present
Spouse(s)	Ricardo Álamo ​ ​ (m. 2004; div. 2006)​
Partner(s)	Julián Gil (2006–2017)
Children	1
Website	MarjoriedeSousa.tv

Career

Beginnings and notable roles

At age 12, De Sousa began her career doing television commercials and working as a model.[5][1] In 1999, she entered the beauty pageant Miss Venezuela in the hands of the famous Venezuelan designer Giovanni Scutaro.[1][5] 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.[5] In 2002, De Sousa left Venezuela to work on the telenovela Gata Salvaje, a co-production of Venevisión and the Spanish-American channel Univision.[6] 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.[6][7] 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.[7] Next, she worked on another successful Univision telenovela called Rebeca, where she had the character of Gisela,[8] 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.[9] A year later she returned to star in another telenovela of RCTV,[9] Y los declaro marido y mujer, a beach production set in Venezuela's Margarita Island.[9] 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.[8]

Critical success in telenovelas (2010–present)

In 2010, De Sousa appeared in Sacrificio de mujer, alongside Luis José Santander and its directed by Adriana Barraza.[10] In 2011, she played an antagonist in a special participation in Corazón apasionado alongside Guy Ecker and Marlene Favela.[11] That same year she starred in the new video of the song "Poquito a Poquito" by Henry Santos, former member of the band Aventura.[12] 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.[13] That year she also received the Prize for Best Female Protagonist in the United States for her extraordinary performance of Clemencia Sacrificio de mujer.[14] 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,[15] due to the success of her character in the telenovela, she won the prize as Best Antagonist in a telenovela at the TVyNovelas Awards.[16] In 2013, she joined the cast of the play Perfume de Gardenia, produced by Omar Suárez.[17] She also appeared in the fourth season of reality show ¡Mira quién baila!, being in third place.[18]

In 2014, De Sousa got her first lead on Televisa, in the telenovela Hasta el fin del mundo,[19] which where was first paired with Pedro Fernández,[20] but this one left the project due to supposed problems with De Sousa,[20] and David Zepeda took the place of Fernández.[21] 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.[22] After being absent from television for one year, in 2017 she signed an exclusive contract with the Spanish-language television network Telemundo.[23] The network began filming the telenovela Al otro lado del muro, alongside Litzy that debut on 21 February 2018.[24]

Personal life

De Sousa married to Venezuelan actor Ricardo Álamo in 2004 and divorced in 2006.[25] 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,[26][27] the relationship between De Sousa and Gil ended in 2017 in unfavorable terms.[28]

Filmography

Film roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Soltera y sin compromiso	Julia Maldonado	Television film
2008	Duelo de pasarelas	Natalia
2017	Juan Apóstol, el más amado[29]	María Magdalena[30]
2018	Lo más sencillo es complicarlo todo	Susana[31]

Television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Amantes de luna llena	Mayra Robledo	47 episodes
2001	Guerra de mujeres	Carolina Bonilla
2002	Gata salvaje	Camelia Valente de Arismendi	Main antagonist
2003	Rebeca	Gisela Gidalva
2003	Mariana de la noche	Carol Montero
2005	Ser bonita no basta	Coral Torres Olavarría	Protagonist
2006	Y los declaro marido y mujer	Saioa Mujica Segarra	Protagonist
2007	Isla Paraíso	Maite
2008	Amor comprado	Margot Salinas	Main antagonist
2008	¿Vieja yo?	Estefanía Urrutia Blanco
2009	Pecadora	Samantha Savater	Main antagonist
2011	Sacrificio de mujer	Clemencia Astudillo de Talamonti	Protagonist
2012	Corazón apasionado	Leticia Bracamontes	Special participacion
2012–2013	Amores verdaderos	Kendra Ferreti / Macaria Chávez	Main antagonist
2014–2015	Hasta el fin del mundo	Sofía Ripoll Bandy / Sofía Fernández Bandy	Protagonist
2016	Sueño de amor	Cristina Vélez Valderrama	Protagonist
2017	Mi marido tiene familia	Herself	Episode: "Imelda y Blanca creen que Juan Pablo apareció"[32]
2018	Descontrol	Ariadna Morelos	Episode: "Creta"[33]
2018	Al otro lado del muro	Sofía Villavicencio / Alejandra Miranda	Protagonist i[34][35]
2019	Un poquito tuyo	Julieta Vargas	Protagonist

Music videos

Year	Title	Performer	Album
2011	"Poquito a poquito"	Henry Santos	Introducing Henry Santos
2019	"Un poquito tuya"	Marjorie de Sousa	N/A

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Work
2012	Miami Life Awards	Won	Female Protagonist[14]	Sacrificio de mujer
2013	Juventud Awards	Nominated	Girl That Takes Away My Sleep	Amores verdaderos
	People en Español Awards	Nominated	Best Female Villain[36]
2014	Bravo Awards	Won	Most Outstanding Female Villain[37]
	People en Español Awards	Nominated	Best Actress	Hasta el fin del mundo
		Nominated	Better Chemistry on the Screen (with Pedro Fernández)
	TVyNovelas Awards (Mexico)	Won	Best Antagonist Actress	Amores verdaderos
		Won	Favorite Female Villain
		Nominated	The Prettiest
2015	Juventud Awards	Nominated	My Favorite Protagonist	Hasta el fin del mundo
2016	Juventud Awards	Nominated	My Favorite Protagonist

References

1. "Marjorie de Sousa". 2.esmas.com (in Spanish). Esmas.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
2. "Marjorie De Sousa | Palomera Group". Palomeradelareeproducciones.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
3. Sousa family
4. "Visigoth | people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
5. "Participó en Miss Venezuela" (in Spanish). Teleprograma.diezminutos.es. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
6. "¿Recuerdas a Marjorie de Sousa de 'Camelia Valente'? Está embarazada y luce así [FOTOS]". Ritmoromantica.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
7. Corpus, Lorena (22 April 2013). "Marjorie de Sousa: Una villana muy querida". Chicago Tribune (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
8. "Marjorie de Sousa, bella villana será Samantha Sabater, una "Pecadora" y artista de un cabaret". Informe21.com (in Spanish). 11 August 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
9. "Marjorie De Sousa se debate entre Venezuela y el exterior". Magazine.com.ve (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
10. ""Sacrificio de Mujer" con Marjorie De Sousa, Juan Alfonso Baptista y Luis José Santander". Informe21.com (in Spanish). 20 September 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
11. "Marjorie de Sousa se integra a Corazon apasionado". Telenovelaseries.wordpress.com (in Spanish). 1 December 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
12. "Marjorie de Sousa protagoniza el nuevo video del tema "Poquito a Poquito" de Henry Santos". Notiactual.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
13. "Marjorie De Sousa debuta en la exitosa obra "Toc Toc"". Noticias24.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
14. "Miami Life Awards: Ganadores 2012". Miami Life Awards (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 September 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
15. "Marjorie de Sousa se suma al elenco de Amores verdaderos de Televisa". Produ.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
16. Tinoco, Armando. "Premios TVyNovelas 2014 Favoritos Del Público Winners List: Marjorie De Sousa, Erika Buenfil And 'Amores Verdaderos' Sweep Telenovela Awards". Latintimes.com. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
17. "Marjorie de Sousa protagonista de Perfume de Gardenia". Venevisión (in Spanish). 8 May 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
18. "Marjorie De Sousa habla de su tercer lugar en 'Mira Quién Baila' (VIDEO)". Informe21.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 October 2019.
19. "Hasta el fin del mundo: Marjorie de Sousa sufrió tremenda caída". Peru.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
20. "Falta de besos, contraproducente para Pedro Fernández". Sipse.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
21. "David Zepeda será el nuevo protagonista de 'Hasta el fin del mundo'". Vix.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
22. González, Moisés (24 June 2016). "Marjorie de Sousa habla de su relación con Betty Monroe en Sueño de amor". People en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 May 2019.
23. Juliana, Barrera. "Marjorie de Sousa firma exclusiva con Telemundo (FOTOS Y VIDEO)". Mundohispanico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2017.
24. González, Moisés (17 October 2017). "Marjorie de Sousa: "Mi personaje en Al otro lado del muro es una heroína de verdad. Me identifico con ella ya que hace todo por cuidar y mantener a salvo a sus hijos"". People en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 September 2017.
25. "Tras conocerse separación de Marjorie de Sousa, su exesposo hace confesión (VIDEO Y FOTOS)". Mundohispanico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 October 2017.
26. Mangal, Mayra (19 April 2017). "La historia de amor y desamor de Marjorie de Sousa y Julián Gil". People en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 October 2018.
27. "Marjorie de Sousa reveló la enfermedad que padece su hijo". Globovision.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 October 2017.
28. Markosmo (1 September 2017). "¿Julián Gil no es el verdadero padre del hijo de Marjorie de Sousa?". E! (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 November 2019.
29. Alonso, Antón. ""Juan Apóstol el más amado", nuevo film producido por Brandariz". Galiciapress.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2018.
30. "Marjorie de Sousa será 'María Magdalena' en película "Juan apóstol, el más amado' [FOTOS Y VIDEO]". Trome.pe (in Spanish). 28 April 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
31. De Los Santos, Gabriel. "Efecto Marjorie Se Extiende Al Cine Y La Castigan En La Taquilla". TVyNovelas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 September 2019.
32. "Marjorie De Sousa vuelve a las telenovelas con "Mi marido tiene familia"" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
33. González, Moisés (6 December 2017). "Marjorie de Sousa protagoniza la nueva ficción de Univision y otras 9 noticias de telenovela". People en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 December 2017.
34. González, Moisés (3 October 2017). "Marjorie de Sousa agradecida con Telemundo: "Creyeron en mí, en Marjorie la profesional, sin importar cualquier otra cosa"". People en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
35. Gonzalez, Juan (5 October 2017). "Telenovela queen signs exclusive contract with Telemundo". RapidTVNews.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
36. nbutterworth1271 (12 December 2013). "Estrellas del año People en Español 2013 - Telenovelas: los ganadores". People en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2017.
37. "Marjorie De Sousa distinguida con el premio Bravo en México". DLAlations.com (in Spanish). 25 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2019.

External links

• Official website
• Marjorie de Sousa at IMDb