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Alba Raquel Barros is a Actor American born on 14 december 1952 at Santurce

Alba Raquel Barros

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Nationality USA
Birth 14 december 1952 (71 years) at Santurce

Alba Raquel Barros (born 14 December 1952 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an actress, comedian, and dancer. She is better known for her acting career, and she has won many national awards for her work, both in the television and theatrical fields.

Biography

Barros participated in a rendition of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire as a student at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). She graduated with a degree in Theatre from the UPR in 1974.

Barros began her rise to fame as a telenovela actress in Puerto Rico's channel 2 during the 1970s. She participated in some of that channel's most famous soap operas.

By the early 1980s, she had moved to WAPA-TV, where she acted in some of that channel's most famous shows, including 1982's soap, Yo Sé Que Mentía (I know he was lying), with Iris Chacón, the mini series, Las Divorciadas, (The Divorced Women), with Sonia Noemí and Maribella Garcia, as well as 1984's sitcom, Barrio Cuatro Calles. In the latter comedy she played a Puerto Rican girl who had been born in New York City therefore she used an Americanized, or Nuyorican, accent. She played the wife of Miguel Ángel Álvarez, who played a bakery owner. They played opposite legendary Cuban actor Leopoldo Fernández and Yazmín Mejías.

She has participated at the theatrical versions of many of Latin America's most famous novels, including La Carreta, Orinoco, La Clase del 69 and others.

The famous Chilean show host and producer, Don Francisco has invited Barros many times to his Univision show Sábado Gigante. Barros has participated as a comedian a number of times on that television show.

Barros' acting career has not been limited to television and theater, however, as she has participated in a number of Puerto Rico's most important productions of all times, including Nicolas y los demas (Nicholas and the others), directed by and starred Jacobo Morales, Héroes de Otra Patria (Heroes for Another Nation, which protested the participation of Puerto Ricans in the United States military, particularly during the Vietnam War era), and Los Diaz de Doris.

In 2002, Barros moved to Venezuela to act there, after being signed by Venevision. She appeared in Ángel Rebelde as Simona Ramirez.

In 2008, she acted in Telemundo's El Rostro de Analía where she played Dionisia Valdez.

In 2010, she acted in Telemundo's Alguien Te Mira where she played Yoyita.

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Filmography of Alba Raquel Barros (3 films)

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One Hot Summer
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Johnathan Dwayne, Alba Raquel Barros, Vanessa Marcil, Casper Van Dien, Tessie Santiago, Jon Seda
Roles Elder Lady
Rating42% 2.102482.102482.102482.102482.10248
Margarita est une jeune avocate brillante. Elle vient d'ailleurs d'être nommée associée du cabinet pour lequel elle travaille. Ses deux meilleures amies, issues de familles cubaines immigrées, sont ravies pour elle. Cette réussite est un bel exemple pour ces jeunes femmes. Les choses ne vont pourtant pas pour le mieux dans la vie de Margarita. En effet, son mari Ariel veut qu'elle tienne enfin sa promesse et lui donne des enfants. Ce n'est pas encore le moment pour la nouvelle promue qui veut profiter de son évolution de carrière et se donner le temps.
Thieves and Liars, 1h54
Genres Drama
Actors Steven Bauer, Elpidia Carrillo, Daniel Lugo, Alba Raquel Barros, Lymari Nadal
Rating64% 3.22483.22483.22483.22483.2248
The film is set in the island of Puerto Rico. Because of its central location in the Caribbean, the island has become one of the main ports of drug entry from South America into the United States. The film follows the lives of three families in different levels of society affected by drug trafficking and crime in the island.