To replace the queen of soap operas Andrea del Boca, who had a strong fall a few days ago and will not be able to return Big Brother Golden Generationanother queen of soap operas arrives. Today, Greece Apiaries He will enter the place that Del Boca left vacant.
The Venezuelan actress, who has lived in Miami for some years, where his son Gianfranco and his grandson Luca also live with his daughter-in-law Alexia, he participated in several reality shows, including Dancing for a dream 2012, The island of the famous and Big Fratellothe Italian version of GH. That’s why she didn’t hesitate to accept when they called her Telefe. “People are going to know about me. “He is going to see me, he is going to hear me, he is going to know what I am like as a person, as a human being,” said the Venezuelan actress in a preview of her presentation. During the announcement, Santiago Del Moro said that Colmenares is passionate about the format and that sees all the editions.
Recently arrived in our country, she is already aware of the necessary details to enter the house tonight, at the elimination gala.
On December 7, he celebrated his 63rd birthday. and on his networks he showed himself singing and dancing, and making it clear that he is going through a great moment in his life. Born in Valencia, Venezuelaand from a very young age she dreamed of being an artist. He studied theater with the director and playwright Miguel Torrence, whom he calls “my teacher,” and At just 10 years old he convinced his mother to take her to Radio Caracas Television to do a casting. His intuition did not fail and was selected to participate in the novel Angelicawhich starred Puma José Luis Rodríguez and Mayra Alejandra. They say that his work was so impactful that he achieved an outstanding character. It was the starting point of a long career that includes more than twenty novels, including Zoraida, Blue blood, Estefania, Carolina, The rebel angel and Torment. She continued studying with a prestigious teacher in Venezuela, Amalia Pérez Díaz, and his first leading role came in 1978 with the miniseries Love drama in Block 6a version of Romeo and Julietwhich he did together with Henry Zakka. That love story imagined by Shakespeare and rewritten in this novel became reality and Colmenares married Zakka, when he was just 17 years old. The marriage lasted just over a year, but they remain friends to this day and shared many other jobs, including in our country.
Colmenares’ career continued to grow and In 1981 he starred in his first novel, Rosalind, with Carlos Olivier. Then he did days of infamy, Lily and Emeraldalways on RCTV. But the great success that gave it international projection was Topaz, who starred alongside Victor Camera. The novel broke records and Colmenares became a very popular actress, not only in Venezuela but throughout Latin America, the United States and Europe, and unconditional fan clubs were formed that are still active to this day. Topaz It opened a door to the world that she had not even imagined, and also, it was the first novel translated into English.
Immediately the channel proposed him to star another world-successful novel, Glass. But Colmenares received another proposal that interested him more and he declined the offer. Finally, Jeanette Rodríguez did Glass and she moved to Buenos Aires. In our country she wrote several very successful novels and met the father of her son.
The producer José Enrique Crousillat He was the one who tempted Colmenares to come to Argentina to record Nobody’s Marywith Jorge Martínez, who once said that they had wonderful chemistry and that it was his best television couple. The novel told the typical story of an innocent young woman who arrives from a province, works as a maid in a mansion and falls in love with the rich boy. The Argentine public adored her and Colmenares stayed for some years working in our country. With Nobody’s Mary He conquered Italy and Spain too, and won several awards. The actress was at her peak. The then mayor of Miami gave him the key to the city and declared October 1st as Grecia Colmenares Day.
Newly arrived in Buenos Aires, Colmenares she fell in love with businessman Marcelo Pelegri in 1986. The courtship was short, they got married and a few years later, in 1992, Their only son, Gianfranco, was born.
In 1987 her boyfriend was Gustavo Bermúdez to do Greecebased on the story of Cinderella. The following year he did Passions next to Raul Taibo and there she put herself in the shoes of a peasant woman who worked on the ranch of a wealthy family and fell in love with her boss. Then he traveled to Italy to make photonovelas and upon his return he made another soap opera, Rebelwith Ricardo Darín.
He also worked with Arnaldo André in Romance, a five-episode miniseries. And he went back to work with Jorge Martínez in Manuelawhich was made in co-production with Italy, with locations in the cities of Los Angeles, Madrid, Rome, Sicily, Genoa and Portofino. The success of Colmenares in the world was overwhelming. In this soap opera, the actress plays two characters, the protagonist and the antagonist, two sisters who do not know each other and who fall in love with the same man.
After becoming a mother, she went back to work and debuted a leading man: she made first love, next to Gabriel Corrado that she was making her debut in that role and on several occasions she appreciated the learning she had alongside the Venezuelan. Then it came beyond the horizontogether with Osvaldo Laport, Luisa Kuliok and Gerardo Romano, a period novel that had 220 chapters. And he continued working with Laport in The day you love me; They had a lot of chemistry and got along very well in front of and behind the cameras. He also did sacred loveagain with Jorge Martínez and where he once again plays two characters who dispute the love of the same man.
After living ten years in Buenos Aires, he moved to Miami. However, in 1999 he briefly returned to our country to do Little oneswhich had already been on the air for several seasons. She was the boys’ fairy godmother and that year she was also at the Gran Rex and then returned to the United States to record Borrowed lives.
From that moment and for almost ten years, Colmenares lowered his profile and decided to stop working. At least for a while. During those years he dedicated himself to raising his son. Besides, They broke up in 2005. Years later, in 2014, Pelegri was accused of being a fraudster and armed himself a media scandal in which the actress was not involved, although she supported the father of her son. He only resumed his career in 2009, when he traveled to Mexico to appear on the program movewhere she met again with the gallant of TopazVictor Cámara. Then he was on the show. Your peace on TVin Italy. During that time he had several job proposals, but brief. He was also in our country, at the Mar del Plata Festival in 2011, where he was given an award for his lifetime achievement. On that trip she did an advertisement and was a guest on Susana Giménez’s program. He stayed that summer to do the season at Carlos Paz with the comedy 14 million along with Cristian U. Fabio La Mole Moli, Fredy Villarreal and Claudia Fernández.
The romance with Argentina was rekindled and he participated in Dancing for a dream 2012, She was the fifth eliminated. He ended up in Miami again until he returned to Venezuela in 2016 to make the musical my cinderellain the municipal theater of his hometown.
In 2019, he participated in the reality show The island of the famous in Italyand last year he was in Big Fratellothe Italian version of Big Brother.
In recent years the audiovisual industry has changed and Colmenares had to reinvent itself. And, above all, she was focused on her family. A few years ago their son married an event organizer named Alexis, and at the end of last year they became parents to Luca. Thus, Grecia is fully enjoying this new stage of her life as a grandmother.
