Daisy Sánchez moved thousands to tears with her performance in the soap opera Regreso al Corazón

August 27, 2025

The Cuban soap opera Regreso al Corazón has found in Daisy Sánchez one of its most brilliant and emotional performers. Her character Sonia has become one of the soul of the work, a condition that was reaffirmed after the episode broadcast last Monday, where the actress gave such a masterful performance that she managed to move thousands of viewers who followed the broadcast from their homes to tears.

Monday's episode marked a before and after in Daisy's trajectory within the soap opera. Her character, Sonia, faced one of the most devastating moments any mother can experience: the beginning of grief over the death of her young daughter Silene, played by Dalia Yacmell, who was murdered. The way Sánchez channeled that maternal pain and transmitted it through the screen earned her applause from thousands of followers.

Social media became the perfect thermometer to measure the impact of her work. Not a few users shared their emotions, confessing that they had cried along with Sonia in several of the most moving scenes that the current production has offered. Comments such as "I could not hold back the tears," "Daisy made me feel a mother's pain," and "what a real and heartrending performance" flooded digital platforms, turning the episode into one of the most discussed to date.

Daisy Sánchez's interpretation in the scenes of maternal grief was simply extraordinary. Every gesture, every tear, every tremor in her voice managed to capture the purest essence of the pain of a mother who has lost her daughter in a tragic way. Her face became a canvas where all possible emotions were painted: contained rage, absolute desperation, and that profound sadness that only those who have experienced irreparable loss know. Sánchez did not act out the pain, she lived it in front of the cameras, and that authenticity was what reached the hearts of the viewers directly.

The most impressive thing about her performance was the subtlety with which she handled the emotional nuances of the character. Sonia was not just a devastated mother screaming her pain; she was a complex woman trying to stay on her feet while her world crumbled. Daisy managed to show that fragile strength, that wounded dignity, that internal struggle between the desire to let herself fall and the need to move forward. Her silences were as eloquent as her words, her gazes as profound as her tears, creating a three-dimensional character that breathed pain but also humanity in every scene.

Daisy Sánchez has built a solid artistic career spanning more than three decades in the Cuban cultural landscape, standing out especially in theater. Her commitment to the performing arts materialized definitively in March 1990, when together with renowned actor Julio César Ramírez she founded the Teatro D'Dos group, a company that would become the epicenter of her professional development.

Her path to acting began in an unconventional way, since her initial training took place in dance, a discipline that provided her with the physical and expressive foundations that would later enrich her work. Subsequently, Sánchez decided to deepen her acting vocation by studying at the prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA), where she trained as an actress under the tutelage of the best teachers in the country. Her commitment to artistic training was not limited to her own professional growth, but extended to teaching, working as a professor and transmitting her knowledge to new generations of Cuban performers.

Although theater has been her natural territory, Daisy Sánchez has also ventured into Cuban television, though in a more sporadic way. On the small screen she has participated in the soap operas En tiempos de amar and Cuando el amor no alcanza, where she has managed to adapt her theatrical technique to television language with notable success.

Her talent continues to expand toward new projects, and soon viewers will be able to enjoy her presence in the television series Emocionalmente subversivas, directed by Elena Palacios.