Rosario de los Milagros Prieto Pérez (born April 13, 1942, in Dominican Republic) better known as Rosario Prieto is a Dominican-born actress, naturalized Venezuelan, who has developed her career in Venezuela.
Biography When she was one and a half years old, Rosario Prieto arrived in Venezuela with her parents, who were political refugees. Despite being born in the Dominican Republic, the actress identifies as Venezuelan.
Personal life One day, when Rosario Prieto was dancing on the stage of "El Show de Renny" she met Chucho Sanoja, director of the RCTV orchestra. She fell in love married him. She then began to explore the world of singing, since she was part of the orchestra led by her husband and studied with master Eduardo Lanz. Two years after being married, Rosario Prieto had her first daughter named María Eugenia Sanoja Prieto and later, three sons who died. She then traveled to the United States where she studied choreography upon returning to Venezuela, worked for thirteen years on the newly opened CVTV channel. During this time, the actress had her second daughter, Carolina Prieto de Fernández.
Career Jorge Citino was the choreographer of that program in 1959 and, in his arduous search for all the academies of Caracas to find a classical dancer, he selected Rosario Prieto to be part of "El Show de Renny." One day, when Rosario Prieto was dancing on the stage of "El Show de Renny," she met Chucho Sanoja, director of the RCTV orchestra. She fell in love married him. She then began to explore the world of singing, since she was part of the orchestra led by her husband and studied with master Eduardo Lanz. As a member of the RCTV orchestra, which had many contracts with international record companies, Rosario Prieto had the opportunity to travel to different countries. In some nations such as Mexico, the United States and Spain, she studied as a listener in the performing arts schools. While she traveled, Prieto gained interest in acting. So she decided to take formal classes in Venezuela with professor Luis Salazar, the founder of a school of acting training in the country. Rosario Prieto debuted as an actress on RCTV in the mid-1960s. She then traveled to the United States where she studied choreography and, upon returning to Venezuela in 1964, worked in the first program of "El Club del Clan" along with “the brothers” José and Richard Hernandez produced by the recently opened CVTV channel. In 1979, she returned to RCTV and worked uninterrupted until the day of its closure, both in dramatic productions and in different genres: humor, competitions, varieties, and more. In addition to all this, Rosario Prieto has a training school of artistic talent called Buscando el Actor que todos llevamos dentro witch has functioned in Caracas and in several other regions of the country. She has taught acting workshops on television, voice and diction, text analysis and body language, as well as various talks on empirical and spiritual content.
Filmography
Television Year Title Character Channel1970Simplemente MariaPaolaVenezolana de Televisión1971La consentida de papáVioletaVenezolana de Televisión1971Cuando se quiere ser felizVivianaVenezolana de Televisión1973MilyDiana TormentoVenezolana de Televisión1973GabrielaButterflyVenezolana de Televisión1975ValentinaVioletaRCTV1980Rosa Campos, ProvincianaElenaRCTV1981Marta y JavierMargó LizárragaRCTV1982La GuajiritaLeonorRCTV1983LeonelaMrs. RodríguezRCTV1984La SalvajeAna AmintaRCTV1984-1985RebecaIdalinaRCTV1984-1985TopacioDoña PuraRCTV1986Mansión de LuxeMargarita LuchesterRCTV1986AtréveteDaría SepúlvedaRCTV1987-1988Mi amada BeatrizMiguelina "Maíta" ParedesRCTV1988La muchacha del circoHerminia VillasRCTV1989Rubí rebeldeDorilaRCTV1989Amanda SabaterWitch MorganaRCTV1990-1991De mujeresDoña Leticia ContrerasRCTV1991-1992El desprecioBrígida AlbornozRCTV1993De Oro PuroFausta GómezRCTV1994AlejandraMaría de BustamanteRCTV1994-1995Pura sangre Estacia BriceñoRCTV1996Los amores de Anita PeñaPancha MataRCTV1997María de los ÁngelesGertrudis MárquezRCTV1999Mujer secretaEvencia de RomeroRCTV1999-2000MariúDoña Albertina NavarreteRCTV2000-2001Viva la pepaDoña Trina SantaellaRCTV2001-2002A calzón quita'oDoña Celeste de ContrerasRCTV2002-2003Trapos íntimosDoña Eulalia PinzónRCTV2004¡Qué buena se puso Lola!Luz Elena AguirreRCTV2005-2006Amor a PalosZoila RevueltasRCTV2007CamaleonaNumidia Valecillos Vda. de AlcántaraRCTV2008-2009Nadie me dirá como quererteGregoria SalasRCTV2009Esto es lo que hay Doña Carmen GonzálezRCTV2012-2013Teresa en tres estacionesPetra BautistaTVes2015-2016Amor secretoCoromotoVenevisión2020Almas en PenaMrs. ElisaRCTV
Movies Year Movie Character Director 2016Locos y PeligrososJavier Paredes and Eduardo Cerrano2017Más vivos que nuncaPalomaAlfredo Anzola
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Work Result2018ACACV AwardsBest Supporting ActressMás vivos que nunca
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