Isabel Moreno Pérez (28 January 1942 – 9 June 2024) was a Cuban actress. She worked in Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States, where she later resided. She is known for playing characters such as Teresa Trebijo, La Santiaguera, Chachi, La Mexicana, Soledad Mendoza, Cachita, and Bernarda Alba.
Biography
Isabel Moreno was born in Havana on 28 January 1942, the only daughter of Eugenio Moreno and Isabel Pérez. She was married to actor Gaspar González in the 1970s. They had two daughters and a son.
Moreno's beginnings were in the theater, where she spent most of her artistic career, although she ventured into film and television.
In the 1960s, she became involved in the cultural movement of Havana and the formation of several theater groups. She made her debut as an amateur in the play La taza de café, directed by Juan Rodolfo Amán. She participated in the First Worker and Peasant Theater Festival in 1962 with La fablilla del secreto bien guardado.
In 1961, she joined a group of young actors with training in mime and body language under the orders of the French professor Pierre Chausat. She belonged to theater groups such as the Conjunto Dramático Nacional, Las Máscaras, La Rueda, and Guernica, appearing in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Réquiem por Yarini by Carlos Felipe Hernández, The Threepenny Opera, Aire frío by Virgilio Piñera, and Entremeses japoneses by Yukio Mishima.[2]
Moreno joined Grupo Teatro Estudio in 1969, and remained with it for more than 20 years. She taught at the National Art School of Cuba and the Instituto Superior de Arte for several years. In the early 1990s, she emigrated to Venezuela. Her first roles there were in telenovelas on networks such as Marte TV [es], RCTV, and Venevisión. In early 2001 she arrived in the United States, where she worked in television and theater, with sporadic appearances in film.
Grupo Teatro Estudio
Under the direction of Raquel Revuelta [es] and with the mentorship of Vicente Revuelta [es], Berta Martínez, and Armando Suárez del Villar, among others, she participated in more than 20 plays, and alternated theater with roles in Cuban cinema and television.[3] This was the most fruitful stage of her career in Cuba. In turn, she made several national and international tours with the company to Spain and other European countries. Some of her most prominent roles were:
^"Aire Frío". Cuban Theater Digital Archive. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
^Martínez Tabares, Vivian (4 October 2012). "Memoria de Armando". Periódico Cubarte (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
^Suárez, Talía (10 June 2024). "Fallece la icónica actriz cubana Isabel Moreno". cubactores.com. CubaActores. Retrieved 10 June 2024. Su talento y dedicación fueron reconocidos con varios premios a lo largo de su carrera, incluyendo el Premio de Mejor Actriz de la UNEAC en 1987 por su actuación en ¿Y quién va a tomar café?, y el reconocimiento en los Premios HOLA de 2007 por su papel en O.K., ambos en roles protagónicos.
