Johanna Rosaly

Infobox actor


name = Johanna Rosaly
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birthdate = birth date and age|1948|01|13
birthplace = Santurce, Puerto Rico
yearsactive =1956-present

Johanna Rosaly (born January 13, 1948 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an actress, singer, and television host.

Early years

Johanna Rosaly was born in an area known as Santurce, a district of San Juan. In 1956 at the age of eight, she started taking acting lessons with Argentinians Luis A. Negro and Elba Mania, and dancing lessons with Beatriz Trujillo. In 1957, she made her acting debut as a child, on stage, at Teatro Tapia, in Old San Juan, in "Mientras los Niños Juegan" ("While the Children Play"). That same year, she made her debut on television, with channel 2's children's production of "Los Amigos de Pinocho" ("Pinocho's Friends") as well as in the film "Con Los Pies Descalzos" (an Osvaldo Agüero production, starring the Catalan actor Ricardo Palmerola).

Teenage years

Rosaly started taking singing lessons when she became a teenager. Then, she participated on stage in zarzuelas, (Spaniard musicals} such as "El Caserí­o" (The Country House), and "Black el Payaso" (Black the Clown); operettas, such as, "La duquesa del Bal Tabarin" (The duchess of the Bal Tavern), and musicals performed in English, such as My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music. The latter, allowed her to perform on stage with another Puerto Rican acting legend, "Camille Carrión". In 1966, already in her early years in college, simultaneously made her debut, in the Telenovela "El Retrato de Angela" ("Angela's Portrait"), broadcasted by Telemundo. In this soap opera, she played a mute girl. Later, she married her first husband, Puerto Rican film director Jose Gilberto Molinari. They procreated 2 sons and a daughter. "Alfonsina Molinari", is Johanna's daughter and she's an actress and an opera singer.

inging career

During the 1970s, Johanna Rosaly had a short but notable career as a singer, and she signed with the Velvet Record Label, and began touring all over Latin America, to promote her two albums under that label. She also attained considerable fame in Spain. Later, she would sign with CBS International Label, now Sony Discos, and recorded two more albums for them.

Television acting career

Rosaly performed in 15 soap operas altogether from 1966 - 1980. However, the leading roles she is mostly remembered for were, 1973's "El Hijo de Angela Marí­a" (The Son of Angela Marie), alongside "Rolando Barral", "Mona Marti", Angela Meyer, and Lucy Boscana, among others. This performance led her to carry out the same leading role, "Marisela Perdomo", in the motion picture film based on the telenovela, in Mexico, opposite Iranian-Mexican actress, Iran Eory, and her cross-over as a singer and actress was, 1978's Cristina Bazan, opposite José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma", and alongside Alba Nydia Díaz, Esther Sandoval, and Adamari Lopez, at the early age of 6, among others. In 1979 moved from WKAQ-TV Telemundo Puerto Rico to WAPA-TV. There, she performed the leading role in the 1980 soap operas: "Vida", (Life), & "Amame", (Love Me), opposite Andrés García, for which she sang the theme songs "Yo Soy un Barco" (I'm a Ship), and "Amándote" (Loving You), respectively.

in 1980 she starred in "El Amor Nuestro de Cada Día" (Our Daily Love), in which she also sang the title song of the same name, composed by Lou Briel.

Anchor woman & TV host

As the 1980s came about, Rosaly made a short parenthesis in her acting career, working as an executive in WAPA-TV, and shortly, moved to Telemundo again, and became an entertainment anchor woman and host in the talk-show, "En Vivo a las Cinco", (Live at Five), and in the game show, "Super Sábados", (Super Saturdays) for several years.

Films

In 1989, she performed alongside Tommy Muniz in the motion picture film, "Lo que le Paso a Santiago", (What really happened to Santiago) produced and directed by Jacobo Morales, which was nominated for an Oscar as the best foreign film.In 1993 she performed in, "Shortcut to Paradise", and in 1994's "Linda Sara", (Pretty Sarah) alongside Chayanne and Dayanara Torres.

Recent years

During the 1990s, she was dedicated mostly to act on stage in several theater productions acclaimed by the critics, such as her impersonation of Maria Callas in "Master Class", among many others, and since 1993, Johanna's been working for WIPR-TV channel 6, Puerto Rico's Government TV Channel, (Tu Universo Televisión), hosting several talk shows, among others, "Mucho Gusto" (It's a Pleasure). Presently, she hosts "¿Y cómo fué?" (And How Was It?), and "Cultura Viva", (Alive Culture), alongside Puerto Rican actress, "Cordelia Gonzalez". She is also the lead researcher, scriptwriter and narrator of the program, and is credited with its conception.

On January 11, 2008, Rosaly married José Manuel Saldaña, the former president of the University of Puerto Rico. Rosaly interpreted "Sra.Warren" in "La profesión de la Sra. Warren", as part of the International Festival of the Puerto Rican Culture Institute. [cite web| url=http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/otros_asi/espectaculos_asi/johanna_rosaly_es_la_sra._warren/219146| title=Johanna Rosaly es la “Sra. Warren”| publisher="Primera Hora"| date=2008-08-14| accessdate=2008-08-17]

Honors

She has received multiple honors, among them, the "Puerto Rican Culture Institute" (ICP), dedicated their 1997 International Theater Festival to her, honoring her more than 40 years as an actress....

ee also

* List of famous Puerto Ricans
* List of notable Puerto Ricans
* List of notable residents of San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Cristina Bazan
* Andrés García
* "El Puma"

References

External links

* [https://www.prpop.org/biografias/j_bios/johanna_rosaly.shtml/ Fundacion Nacional para la Cultura Popular]