Diana Rosa Suárez Menéndez

A highly recognized Cuban artist in the audiovisual field (film, radio, television), with an extensive career spanning more than 51 years of artistic life. She is an actress, presenter, reciter, and singer.

She has always stood out as an actress full of beauty and charm. Diana Rosa Suárez is distinguished by the smile that since childhood revealed her talent and aptitude for the performing arts.

Friendship means everything to her. She gives it a very special place, believes in it blindly, has very good friends whom she adores like her own family; without them she wouldn't know how to laugh. Her friends are her life.

She was born in the Luyano neighborhood of Havana. She recalls that as a young girl she would dress up and perform in her house, so much so that, when she was almost 15 years old, her mother enrolled her in the School of Acting, where she had teachers such as Modesto Centeno, María Álvarez Ríos, and Roberto Garriga.

Later, she attended the Popular Academy of Art and was soon ready to perform professionally. Among the cherished memories of her student days, she mentions the honor of attending Bola de Nieve performances for 25 cents.

During the height of the Agrarian Reform, while still very young, she decided to sell bonds. She was a success. "They crowned me queen in Luyano," she recalls. Later, her resemblance to Odalys Fuentes opened the doors of television for her.

When she was studying at the School of Dramatic Art, Ramón Valenzuela, who was her makeup teacher, selected the best student for a theater project and she had that fortune. Then they sent her to La Edad de Oro, in the Arlequín hall, directed by Rubén Vigón; there she began as a makeup artist and earned her first salary, which was 50 pesos.

Her career as an actress has been dizzying in all aspects, as she has worked in radio, television, and theater, playing unforgettable characters. She recalls with pride her performance in the theatrical work "Nido de Águilas," in the Idal hall, which was owned by actor Idalberto Delgado; there Diana Rosa worked in both comedies and dramas.

Her beginnings were as an amateur; she started at the Presbyterian Church, performing biblical works. Later she entered the Academy of Dramatic Art, where she performed theatrical works for the arts cooperative in theater halls such as Idal, Talía, Arlequín, Payret Theater, and García Lorca.

In 1963, she began in television and on Radio Progreso, performing in the Cuban Novel, and her first television appearance was in Cecilia Valdés with the character of Adela. After six months, she starred in "The Mark of Zorro" and later in children's programs, ICR theater, novels such as Horizontes, Comedia del Domingo, Tele Fiesta, Detrás de la Fachada, Mansión Mayeya, San Nicolás del Peladero, and Cuento Universal.

Starting in 1982, she ventured into musical entertainment as a presenter at the Benny Moré Festival, at the Casa del Bolero de Cuba "Dos Gardenias" — where she has been reciting poetry and presenting for over 20 years — and at the Peña del Delirio Habanero of the National Theater, which has already been running for more than 4 years.

Leonor "La Caimana" is a fictional character created by Alberto Luberta over 25 years ago; she is noble, charming, slandered by Estervina (Aurora Basnuevo), and constantly seeks entanglements to achieve a balance between the two. She loves the program Alegrías de Sobremesa and adores it; wonderful actors and great friends appeared on it, it is a legendary program; the greatest comedians of this country have appeared on it, so it is an honor for her to have been part of that ensemble.

Theater
At the Piano Bar Delirio Habanero Salon, Diana Rosa Suárez's venue, and her guests
Altitude 3,200
The Strongest
Radioactive Honeymoon
Happy Death
Come Up Here and You'll See Paris
The Mother
The Merry Widow
Blue Eyes
Risístrata
Cecilia Valdés
Women Rebel
The Four Truths

Television
I Swear to You Juana That I Want To
Thanks for the Fire
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Old Wharf
Magdalena
Venus Was a Woman
Cases and Things of Home
Helen of Troy
Behind the Facade
Medea
Date with Rosita
Aunt Tula
Tito the Taxi Driver
It Had to Be in Silence
Adventures of Sergeant García
When the Bells Speak
The Fox's Ark
Attack Order
The Count of Montecristi
The Caribbean Captain
Green Gold
A Bolero for Eduardo
Café Habana
Day and Night
Horizontes Series
The Jaguar
The Champions
Next Year
Where There Are Men There Are No Ghosts
The Other Corner, where she played the role of Sofía alongside the beloved Raúl Pomares.

Radio
In this broadcasting medium, she has participated in novels, police and historical series, humorous programs, theater, and other dramatized content.

Cinema
The Second Hour by Esteban Sayas
The Chinese Man and the Riddle
In Days Like These
The Dreaming Madman

Diana Rosa greatly values friendship. She lost her two daughters, and that is the hardest thing that can happen to a mother; she lost her sister, who was a doctor, and her mother; she has been left alone with only two grandchildren. So she still has the strength to continue helping her grandchildren and whoever needs it. She feels good serving others; she likes it and doesn't mind spending her time doing good.