- Lila Morillo
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name= Lila Morillo
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birth_place=Maracaibo ,Venezuela Lila Morillo (born
August 14 ,1943 ), is a well knownVenezuela n actress andsinger .Morillo was born in Maracaibo. She moved to Caracas, to pursue her career in acting. At a young age, she met
José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" , who became a famous singer and actor himself. In 1964, Morillo made hertelevision acting debut, in a soap opera named "Isla de Sal " ("Salt Island"). She had a minor role in that soap opera, however, and it wasn;t until hermarriage to Rodriguez that she became well known. Towards the end of the 1960s, Morillo and Rodriguez, who had two daughters, were featured in adetergent commercial that became a popular ad among television viewers in Venezuela. In 1968, Morillo got her secondtelenovela role, when she acted in "El Reportero" ("The Reporter"). In 1969, she participated in a television mini-series, "Pablo y Alicia ". Morillo began the 1970s by acting in 1972's "La Doňa " ("Ms."). She played "Domenica" in that soap opera, giving her her first major role at a soap opera. In 1974, she acted in "El Poder Negro " ("Black Power"), she and her husband became paparazzi fodder during the late 1970s and through the 1980s, appearing on the covers of multiple gossip magazines inLatin America . Morillo and Rodriguez became newbornChristian s during that decade. also they had a well publicizeddivorce in the middle 1980s. Lila Morillo by then was popular in other Latin American countries, specially inPuerto Rico , where her husband had starred in a telenovela named "El Idolo ' ("The Idol") alongsideMarylin Pupo . Morillo and Rodriguez had two daughters, Liliana andLilibeth Rodriguez . Both girls remained with their mother upon her divorce from Rodriguez, with Liliana becoming a staunch supporter of Morillo. In 2001, Morillo returned to screen acting, playing "Mari Chuvha" in "Viva la Pepa " ("Long Live Pepa"). Later on that decade, she declared that her daughter Lilibeth was allegedlyrape d by a homeworker as a six year old, apparently while her parents were away from home.Lila Morillo retired from acting after "Viva la Pepa". Nevertheless, she remains active in Venezuela's social scene.
Source
* [http://www.vencor.narod.ru/texts2/t06f.htm Interview and biography of Lila Morillo]
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1145913/ Morillo's imdb.com's page]
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