Nelly Lucinda Consuelo Meruane Solano (20 December 1927 â€" 20 June
2018) was a distinguished Chilean actress and teacher whose career
spanned 65 years. For 20 years she was a member of the stable cast of
the Teatro Ensayo [es] of the Pontifical Catholic University of
Chile.Meruane was recognized for her leading roles in the television
series Juani en sociedad [es] (1967), the telenovela La madrastra
(1981), and the play Mama Rosa (1982). She received several honors,
such as an APES [es] Award in 2011 and an Altazor in 2014.Nelly
Meruane was born in Nueva Toltén on 20 December 1927. She showed a
strong interest in the performing arts from a very young age. Due to
strong opposition from her parents, she studied pedagogy in Spanish,
but also took theater classes in parallel. When beginning her studies
at the University of Chile's Pedagogical Institute, she also entered
the school's Dramatic Arts Center (CADIP), joining the cast of several
plays under the stage name Sonia del Solar. Later, she majored in
theater at the Catholic University. She debuted in the play Time and
the Conways at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 1952 as a
first-year student of the Theater Academy.
2018) was a distinguished Chilean actress and teacher whose career
spanned 65 years. For 20 years she was a member of the stable cast of
the Teatro Ensayo [es] of the Pontifical Catholic University of
Chile.Meruane was recognized for her leading roles in the television
series Juani en sociedad [es] (1967), the telenovela La madrastra
(1981), and the play Mama Rosa (1982). She received several honors,
such as an APES [es] Award in 2011 and an Altazor in 2014.Nelly
Meruane was born in Nueva Toltén on 20 December 1927. She showed a
strong interest in the performing arts from a very young age. Due to
strong opposition from her parents, she studied pedagogy in Spanish,
but also took theater classes in parallel. When beginning her studies
at the University of Chile's Pedagogical Institute, she also entered
the school's Dramatic Arts Center (CADIP), joining the cast of several
plays under the stage name Sonia del Solar. Later, she majored in
theater at the Catholic University. She debuted in the play Time and
the Conways at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 1952 as a
first-year student of the Theater Academy.
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