Cuban actress Katia Caso acts in acclaimed Netflix series

July 3, 2024

In 2016 Netflix premiered the series The OA, centered on the reappearance of young Prairie Johnson, who had disappeared seven years earlier while blind and later returns without that condition. This woman does not tell the authorities or her parents what happened to her during that time, but she does recount what occurred to five inhabitants of her locality. Around this mystery, several storylines begin to develop that caught the attention of many viewers.

Despite the initial pull and all the interest it generated in a certain core of fans, after two seasons and sixteen episodes, the streaming giant decided to cancel the development of this audiovisual without providing closure to the story. As has happened on other occasions, the reasons for the end of this work have nothing to do with its quality, which is high, and besides the critics received it well. Many journalists who have followed that topic comment that the decision was made to end the production due to a budget issue.

In episode 5 of the first season, titled Paradise, the setting of the material is in the Cuban capital and there we see in a small role, with little screen time, actress Katia Caso. About that experience she commented a few weeks ago to Cubaactores: "something curious happened to me with a small participation I had in a Netflix series and my students from Ecuador and from here [referring to Cuba] started calling me. They congratulated me and it made a great impression on me, because in such an insignificant character as that one they recognized me over others that were better. This showed me how atypical this profession can be."

The woman born in 1962, who has participated in well-known Cuban dramatizations such as De tu sueño a mi sueño, El eco de las piedras, Las honradas, La leyenda del rayo and Salir de noche, among others, has also worked as a teacher inside and outside her native territory. She has lived in Ecuador, Chile and Spain, and in those three territories, in one way or another, she has been able to serve as a professor.

On the big screen she has been seen in feature films such as Una novia para David, which marked her debut in that field, as well as Amor vertical, Boccaccerías habaneras, Una noche and El viajero inmóvil.

Despite her interest in the artistic field, she began studying Russian language at the University of Havana in the early eighties and during that time she became involved with the amateur group Olga Alonso, from the Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, directed by Humberto Rodríguez and which has been the academy of many great actors. Some time later she took exams to enter the Superior Institute of Art (ISA), was admitted without much difficulty and shared studies with Erdwin Fernández, Dianelys Brito, Broselianda Hernández, among other well-known actors of her generation.

Among the most recent work she has participated in is the theatrical work La noche que jamás existió, with actor Alfredo Reyes, a co-production between the Off Latina Madrid and Teatro Espacio companies, premiered at the Adolfo Llauradó theater in the capital in March of this year.

"Both actors displayed talent in each staging, in a game of imaginations where British Queen Isabel I (1533-1603), also known as the Virgin Queen, maintains a curious and controversial session with the legendary English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616), to discover, through the bard, what love was in its essences," Prensa Latina noted at the time.