- Mariasela Álvarez
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Mariasela Álvarez Beauty pageant titleholder Born Mariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón
January 31, 1960
Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicHeight 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Hair color Black Eye color Brown Title(s) Señorita República Dominicana Mundo 1992
Miss World 1982Major
competition(s)Señorita República Dominicana 1982
(Miss República Dominicana Mundo)
Miss World 1982
(Winner)
(Miss World Americas)Mariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón (born January 31, 1960) was Miss World 1982 and is currently a television show host and architect from the Dominican Republic. She became the first Dominican woman to win an international beauty title. Álvarez achieved much popularity in her native country, due to her long career on television, which included a successful eight-year run with her award-winning show Esta Noche Mariasela. She is also an accomplished architect who has designed important buildings in the Dominican Republic.
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Career
The native of Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital, was crowned the 32nd Miss World, on November 18, 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
At the end of her term as Miss World, she returned to her country and finished her studies of architecture at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Álvarez has designed many buildings in her home country, including one of Santo Domingo's landmarks, the Torre Cristal, where the telephone company Codetel has one of its commercial branches.[1]
In 1991, she engaged in the television business and hosted her own weekly talk show Con los Ojos Abiertos (lit. "With Open Eyes"), which she co-hosted at the beginning with Milagros German Olalla, Miss Dominican Republic 1980.
In 1996 she opened her own television production company, Maralva, S. A., which produced four miniseries for eight years in Esta Noche Mariasela, a variety weekly show of two hours, winner of the Casandra Award four times for the Best Special Television Show.
In 2004 Álvarez relocated to Madrid with her Spanish husband, well known hotelier Alberto del Pino,[2] and since 2005 she has been producing the shows Esta Noche Mariasela (lit. "Mariasela Tonight") and Esta Tarde Mariasela (lit. "Mariasela This Afternoon") for Popular TV, an UHF channel property of COPE, the second largest radio broadcast station in Spain.[3]
Family
Álvarez is married to Sergio Alberto Fernández del Pino Fernández and is the mother of four children: Andrés Alberto Fernández del Pino Álvarez, Chantal Fernández del Pino Álvarez, Rebeca Fernández del Pino Álvarez, Emmanuel Fernández del Pino Álvarez.[4] She is the niece of Mariano Lebrón Saviñón.
Community work
Álvarez founded Hogar Mariololy in 1993, through the Eva Lebrón de Álvarez Foundation, created in honor of her mother.[5] She also founded the Casa Rosada of Santo Domingo, a home run by the Congregation of Las Hijas de la Caridad, for orphans and HIV children.[6]
References
- ^ Diario Digital (in Spanish)
- ^ Revista Ahora (in Spanish)
- ^ Academia TV Spain Channel (in Spanish)
- ^ Rootsweb
- ^ La Casa Rosada
- ^ La Casa Rosada
External links
- El Mundo (in Spanish)
- Newspaper Hoy (in Spanish)
Awards and achievements Preceded by
Pilín LeónMiss World Americas
1982Succeeded by
Rocío Isabel LunaPreceded by
Josefina Maria Cuello PerezSeñorita República Dominicana Mundo
1982Succeeded by
Yonoris Maribel Estrella FlorentinoMiss World titleholders (1980–1999) Gabriella Brum (1980) · Pilín León (1981) · Mariasela Álvarez (1982) · Sarah-Jane Hutt (1983) · Astrid Carolina Herrera (1984) · Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir (1985) · Giselle Laronde (1986) · Ulla Weigerstorfer (1987) · Linda Pétursdóttir (1988) · Aneta Kręglicka (1989) · Gina Tolleson (1990) · Ninibeth Leal (1991) · Julia Kourotchkina (1992) · Lisa Hanna (1993) · Aishwarya Rai (1994) · Jacqueline Aguilera (1995) · Irene Skliva (1996) · Diana Hayden (1997) · Linor Abargil (1998) · Yukta Mookhey (1999)
Complete list · (1951–1959) · (1960–1979) · (1980–1999) · (2000–2019) Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty titleholders (1982) Miss Dominican Republic titleholders (1982) Miss Dominican Republic
Soraya MoreyMiss Mundo Dominicana
Mariasela ÁlvarezMajor international pageant titleholders (1982) Miss World
Mariasela ÁlvarezMajor International Pageants titleholders of: 80 · 81 · 82 · 83 · 84 · 85 · 86 · 87 · 88 · 89 · 90 · 91 · 92 · 93 · 94 · 95 · 96 · 97 · 98 · 99 · 00 · 01 · 02 · 03 · 04 · 05 · 06 · 07 · 08 · 09 · 10 · 11 Categories:- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Santo Domingo
- Miss Dominican Republic
- Dominican Republic beauty pageant winners
- Miss World winners
- Miss World 1982 delegates
- Television producers
- Dominican Republic architects
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