Olivia Belizaire

Cuban actress and dancer with a long artistic career. She is a member of the Association of Performing Arts (UNEAC).

She was born in La Habana. Her professional debut takes place at the Martí theater, in the Franco-Cuban musical review Sephia Rhapsody (1946). Later she joins the group "Las mulatas de fuego," with which she works in the companies of Garrido y Piñero, Pototo (Leopoldo Fernández) and Filomeno (Aníbal de Mar) and Carlos Pous, in several Havana theaters (1947-1948).

She is part of the tour through Spain with the Tropicana show, directed by Ernesto Lecuona (1957). She undertakes a European tour with the work El solar, by Lisandro Otero, Gilberto Valdés and Alberto Alonso (1964), which is presented at the Théâtre Olympia, París, Francia, and later tours Central Europe (1965).

She also performs in the titles Pato macho, Las vacas gordas, La pérgola de las flores, among others presented by the Teatro Musical de La Habana. She is also part of the Jorge Anckermann group (1966) and the Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba (1977), of which she has been artistic and general director. In the latter group she has performed in the productions of Cecilia Valdés (with which she was presented in Nicaragua and at the Bellas Artes theater in México), María la O, Amalia Batista, La corte de Faraón, La leyenda del beso, La viuda alegre and La verbena de la Paloma, among others.

She has appeared in some films, among which stand out:
Zamba (1947)
Un día en el solar (1965)
Una pelea cubana contra los demonios (1971).