Ana Lasalle

French by birth, Arab by ancestry, Argentine by adoption and Cuban by self-determination, she dedicated 52 years of her life to art.

She began her career in Spain, where she did several tours. She also visited countries in America and on January 28, 1957 she arrived in Cuba, where she distinguished herself as an actress, with memorable performances in works such as "Blood Weddings", "The Mother" and "The Enchanted Soul", among others.

Ana was Spanish and in the 1930s, those years of glory for the Pfarry Sisters in Spain. Being a young vedette, she had to abandon the revue forever. It happened that, while one day on stage dressed in a long crinoline, in a moment of carelessness she got too close to the proscenium, and, as the metal hoops of her petticoats brushed against the footlight bulbs, it caused a short circuit that quickly set the fabric of her skirt on fire, burning her legs in the process. That was the end of her career as a vedette.

She was one of the emblematic characters of the Television Program "Casos y cosas de casa", Ana played Tecla who, along with Coqui García, José Antonio Rivero, Martica del Río and written by Enrique Núñez Rodríguez, was a program that ran for more than 14 years every Thursday at 8:30 pm.

After the defeat of the republic, Ana Lasalle had abandoned Spain and nothing more was heard from her, until she reappeared in Cuba and succeeded as an actress.

To her work as an actress and the Cuban identity she acquired is added her condition as a revolutionary.