Susana Pérez López

One of the great actresses of Cuba in the last 50 years. She has brilliantly ventured into theater, radio, television and film; as well as a voice actress, host and director. She was the most popular dramatic Cuban actress in the 1980s, thanks to unforgettable romantic heroines from classic Cuban and universal telenovelas.

The public enjoys one of her great theatrical performances. Susana Pérez López, daughter of Mariano Pérez Sierra and Gardencia López Molleda, was born in Marianao, Havana, on May 25, 1952. She has two children: Vanessa Domínguez (July 24, 1970) and Roberto Álvarez (April 26, 1976); the latter has appeared since the 1990s as a television presenter and actor, as well as in theater and film.

She began her artistic studies at the School of Training for Actors of the Cuban Institute of Broadcasting, in 1971. A center that was organized and directed by the great actor Alejandro Lugo, and which had as teachers great actors and directors of radio and television, such as Alden Knight, Alfredo Perojo, Julito Lot and other masters. Among the students of that memorable class were Cristina Obín, Míriam Vázquez, Natasha Díaz, Evelio Taillac, Irela Bravo, Ana Luisa Rubio, Cristina Palomino, Jorge Villazón, Maggie Castro, Teresita Rúa, Frank González, Annia Linares, María Esther Monteluz and Ana Nora Calaza.

She debuted as a booth announcer and later as a substitute actress on Cuban Television during 1972. From that date on, she has been a leading figure in more than 30 telenovelas, serials and television series, in which she has distinguished herself through her magnificent performances and the beauty of her face. In theater, she has worked under the direction of some of our most important playwrights, such as Carlos Díaz and José Antonio Rodríguez and on stages in Venezuela, Colombia, Spain and Bolivia.

She has taught acting classes at the Superior Institute of Art of Cuba, the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños and at the Universidad de Santo Tomás, in La Paz, Bolivia.

Cuban cinema, of course, has also benefited from her collaboration. She has developed her talent as a host of radio, television and entertainment shows, director of teleplays, stories, teletheaters, one-person shows and videoclips.

She has done countless dubbing work for various documentaries, animated drawings, and Brazilian series.

She was chosen as the host of the 1983 Gala, the 1992 OTI, the 1998 Cubadisco Award and the 1999 Caricatos Awards ceremony. Her voice appears on the CD "Tu querida presencia" by EGREM, dedicated in 1997 to the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter Ernesto Che Guevara.

Since February 2008, she decided to settle in the city of Miami, to work and live there with her daughter and her first granddaughter. In this city in the state of Florida, Susana has also made memorable performances in the 4 acting media.

On Television
With Roberto Perdomo in Santa Camila de la Habana Vieja

Telenovelas
Los espejuelos oscuros (1976)
Gracias por el fuego (1977)
Primavera en Budapest (1978)
El rojo y el negro (1979)
La joven de la flecha de oro (1980)
Rosas a crédito (1983)
Las impuras (1984)
Cumbres borrascosas (1984)
Teresa Raquin (1985)
Sol de batey (1985)
La mujer fantasma (1986)
Un bolero para Eduardo (1986)
Médico de guardia (1987)
Papá Goriot (1988)
Tren de noviembre (1989)
Sin perder la ternura (1991)
Magdalena (1992)
Las honradas (1994)
El año que viene (1994)
Si me pudieras querer (1998)
Las huérfanas de La Obra Pía (2000)
El balcón de los helechos (2004)

Children's and Youth Programs
Camaradas
El conde de Montecristo
El mambisito
Enrique de Lagardere
La capitana del Caribe
La leyenda del rayo (off-screen)
La parca madrina (Once Upon a Time)
Los comandos del silencio
Los pequeños fugitivos
Muchachos de la guerrilla
Tato y Carmina

Comedy Programs
Aladino y la grabadora maravillosa
El muertovivo de Guanabacoa (Back Then)
El sombrero de tres picos
¿Jura decir la verdad?
Morena Clara
Punto G
Sea bella un mes (Back Then)

Teletheater, Stories and Teleplays
Aquiles y la tortuga
Asalto en la noche
Blues azul (Parts I and II)
Clase magistral
Dime que estás
El duelo
El pagador de promesas
El premio flaco
El tiempo es un centinela insobornable
En una noche otoñal
¡Gracias, vientre leal!
¡Hazlo por Neruda!
Homenaje a Federico
La casa sin reloj
La jaula vacía
La malquerida
La negra de…
La vencedora
La viejita apacible
Murió la verdad
Pepa Doncel
Punto de partida
Réquiem por una reclusa
Rossmary
Segundo tiempo
Tartufo
Tren hacia la dicha
Vida privada
Week-end en Bahía

Other Regular Programs
Contacto
Forense
Hurón azul
Intimidades
Nuestros hijos
Palco Uno
Voces
Radio

Serials
Amor entre espinas
El amante de Lady Chartley
La abadía de Norz Enger
La casa de los espíritus
La cátedra
La guerra gaucha
Madre Coraje y sus hijos
No es tiempo de ceremonias
Nosotras, que nos queremos tanto
Radio Broadcasting

In 1997 she debuted as a radio announcer with the daily nighttime magazine of Radio Taíno: Estar contigo, which she produced until 1999, in complicit dialogue with listeners and great personalities from culture and the arts in Cuba.

Theater
As an actress
Aquiles y la tortuga
Así es si les parece
Cecilia Valdés
Conversación en la casa Stein sobre el ausente Señor Von Goethe
El duelo
El ensueño
Ha entrado un hombre desnudo
Historias de un escaparate
La gaviota
La loca de Chaillot
Los cóndores en España (performed in Bolivia)
Los inventos de un escaparate
Pareja abierta
Santa Camila de la Habana Vieja
Santiago 57
Tengamos el sexo en paz
Tenía que ser negro

As a director
El contrabajo (one-person show with Roberto Perdomo)

Dubbing in Film and Television
Susana Pérez, a very versatile great actress
Amigas para siempre
La hora de la Mantis religiosa
La reportera del crimen
Locos de amor
Los 101 dálmatas
Pollitos a la fuga

Filmography
1976 El otro Francisco Dir. Sergio Giral.
1980 Leyenda. Dir. Rogelio París.
1982 Techo de vidrio. Dir. Sergio Giral.
1985 La segunda hora de Esteban Zayas. Dir. Manuel Pérez Paredes.
1987 Clandestinos. Dir. Fernando Pérez.
1987 Otra mujer. Dir. Daniel Díaz Torres.
1989 Venir al mundo. Dir. Miguel Torres.
1995 Zacaria e morto. (Uruguay - Cuba). Dir. Gonzalo de Galiana
1996 Pon tu pensamiento en mí. Dir. Arturo Sotto.
1997 Amor vertical. Dir. Arturo Sotto.
1999 Operación Fangio (Cuba-Argentina-España). Dir. Alberto Lecchi.
2003 Aunque estés lejos. Dir. Juan Carlos Tabío.
2004 Perfecto amor equivocado Dir. Gerardo Chijona.
2007 El edén perdido Dir. Daniel Díaz Torres
2007 La noche de los inocentes. Dir. Arturo Sotto.

Performances in Miami
In the film Aunque estés lejos
Alguien te mira (on TV)
Cartas de amor (in theater)
¡Júrame! (in theater)
La flor de Hialeah (on TV)
Memorias del desarrollo (in film)
Pecadora (on TV)
¡Pellízcame, que estoy soñando! (on TV)
¡Quiéreme, tonto! (on TV)
Regreso a casa (in theater)
On stage, since her arrival in 2008, Susana Pérez has established herself as the creator and architect of the theatrical project Cómplice.

As Director
With filmmaker Pastor Vega and actress Daysi Granados a few years ago
Assistant director in "Los cóndores en España". La Paz, Bolivia (1995).
Assistant director in the series "Historias del vecino". La Paz, Bolivia (1995).
Co-direction of the teleplay "Con el gris posado en la mejilla" (2000).
Co-direction of the story "¡En esta casa hay un fantasma!" (2001).
Co-direction of the teletheater "Distintos" (2001).
Co-direction of the telenovela "El balcón de los helechos" (2004)
Co-direction of the videoclip "Desde tiempos de amor silente" by Rita del Prado (2001)
Direction of the story "Sofía y el ángel" (2002).
Direction of the one-person theatrical show "El contrabajo" (2007)

Teaching Experience
Associate Professor at the Superior Institute of Art of Havana between 1992 and 1994.
Acting professor for Television at the Superior Institute of Art of Havana. 2002.
Instructor of Oral Expression, Universidad de Santo Tomás, La Paz, Bolivia. 1995.
Instructor of Theater History, Universidad de Santo Tomás, La Paz, Bolivia. 1996.
Public Speaking Workshops for Executives and Professionals at the Center for Public Administration Development. La Paz, Bolivia. 1996
Workshop "The Actor and Audiovisual Production", La Paz, Bolivia. 1996
Public Speaking Workshop for Mrs. Jimena Iturralde de Sánchez Lozada, La Paz, Bolivia. 1996.
Master class at the Film, TV, and Video School of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. 1998.

Critical Assessment
Susana Pérez, by herself, is everything already. (Francisnet Díaz Rondón)
There is no artistic project involving the very popular Susana Pérez that she does not assume with passion and that, moreover, becomes news (José Luis Estrada Betancourt)

Susana Pérez has been able to transmit the tragic and comic aspects of Aurelia, that character to whom Giraudoux gave a redemptive madness. Because it is not only about her proven quality, but also that angel, or particular charisma, that she gives to her creations in any medium. She always performs remarkably. (Mireya Castañeda)

The ability to suggest and imbue sexual insinuations with sensuality is well expressed through the succulence and texture of the fruits of our tropics; in the scene after the banquet, neither Susana Pérez nor Fernando Hechavarría need words to express the impulse of libido and the pleasure they feel, the way Fernando savors the frutabomba says it all. The relationship of mutual understanding existing between eroticism and nature Sotto justifies in these words. (Lisandra Leyva Ramírez)

Susana Pérez, once again demonstrates the depth of her histrionic range and fits, with authenticity and distinction, an Aurelia that will make memorable the encounter with a classic brought to the stage of the Guiñol Nacional de Cuba by Carucha Camejo four decades ago. (Miguel Gerardo Valdés Pérez)

Our Susana Pérez, after decades as a young lady of television, has functioned well on the big screen and, above all, has forged a formidable theatrical career. (Amado del Pino)

Susana Pérez does not disappoint those who recognize her as a versatile and professional actress, even though here she does not exert herself too much, because the role does not require it. However, "she is" a Camila and her acting concentration stands out greatly (Pepe Murrieta)

But the great main attraction turns out to be Susana Pérez, she embellishes her work in the nuances of her voice, in the delicacy of her gestures and that knowing how to be always pulsing on stage, with her impressive presence. Precise in transitions, intense in silences, moving in apprehension and sorrow. (Gerardo Fulleda León)

Awards and Recognition
As La loca de Chaillot
Caricato Prize from UNEAC for the telenovela "El balcón de los helechos" (2004).
Popularity Award in the program "Entre tú y yo" in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Acting Award at the First Festival of Cuban Television (2004).
Mention in the Caracol contest of UNEAC for the story "Sofía y el ángel" (2003).
Caricato Prize from UNEAC for "Clase magistral" (2002).
Caricato Prize from UNEAC in dubbing for "Los 101 dálmatas" (2002)
Special Jury Prize Caracol for Broadcasting for "Hurón azul" (2002).
Acting Award Cine Plaza for "Clase magistral" (2002).
Caricato Prize from UNEAC telenovela "Las huérfanas de la Obra Pía" (2001).
Screenplay Award in the Caracol contest of UNEAC for "Con el gris posado en la mejilla" (2001)
Mention Cine Plaza for "Con el gris posado en la mejilla" (2001)
Mention by the Catholic Office of Cuba in Cine Plaza for "Con el gris posado en la mejilla" (2001).
Seal of the Laureate, awarded by the National Union of Workers of Culture (1997).
Distinction for National Culture, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Cuba (1993).
Female Acting Award in Caricatos of UNEAC for the teletheater "El duelo" (1988).
Special Mention in UNEAC contest for the film "Clandestinos" (1988).
Sunflower of Popularity awarded by Opina Magazine 1981 1982 1983 1984 and 1986.
Seal XVIII Congress of the CTC, awarded by the national CTC