Marjorie de Sousa Biography

Marjorie de Sousa (born Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas on April 23, 1980 in Las Acacias, Parroquia San Pedro, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and actress of Portuguese descent. She is worldwide known for her villain roles as Camelia Valente in Venevisin's telenovela Gata Salvaje (2002), as Carol in the Televisa telenovela Mariana de la Noche (2003), as Kendra Ferreti in Televisa's telenovela Amores Verdaderos (2012), as Sofa Ripoll / Sofa Fernndez in Televisa's telenovela Hasta el fin del mundo (2014) and recently as Cristina Velez, the co-protagonist of Televisa's telenovela, Sueo de amor (2016).

Early career

At age 12, de Sousa began doing commercial for television and working of model. At the year 1999 Marjorie entered the beauty contest Miss Venezuela of the hand of the famous Venezuelan designer Giovanni Scutaro; Marjorie was named Miss Dependencias Federales 1999 in order to represent that little inhabited and beautiful region of the country (Dependencias Federales) in the contest. Marjorie occupied the position number 11 in the final election of the contest of Miss Venezuela of that year, it was on the verge of entering the picture of semifinalists. After leaving the Miss Venezuela, Marjorie went to Italy to participate modeling in an advertising campaign of Frmula 1.

Professional career

Returning to Venezuela, de Sousa began her career as a telenovela actress. In 2000, she worked in her first telenovela, her start was with the "Agencia de Modelos Mariela Centeno y Tibisay Rivas" Model Agency in Caracas, Venezuela, her first project carried on the hands of Mariela Centeno to where Leonardo Padron and then Tibisay Rivas became her personal Manager in Venezuela www.marielatibymodel.com Amantes de Luna Llena, with a secondary character called Mayra, a university friend of Gaby Espino, the protagonist of the plot. This novel was produced and emitted by the television channel Venevisin. In 2001, Marjorie worked in another novel of Venevisin: the successful telenovela Guerra de Mujeres, playing the character Carolina, daughter of Mim Lazo and granddaughter of Eva Blanco, within the plot, being the main antagonist becoming one of the most popular characters within the plot.

2000s

In 2002, de Sousa left Venezuela to work in the telenovela Gata salvaje, a co-production of Venevisin and the North American Hispanic company Fonovideo. In this novel of great international success, Marjorie interpreted Camelia Valente, one of the villains of the history; in that opera she had perhaps the best character to date and the one who has given her greater international projection. When finishing that production, Marjorie began working in the Mexican telenovela Mariana de la noche, produced by Televisa; there she had a special participation as Carol, a villain.

Next de Sousa worked in another successful novel of Fonovideo Rebeca in 2003 where she interpreted the character Gisela, that was friend of the protagonist. In this novel she met her future husband Ricardo lamo. She acted together with: Gaby Espino, Mariana Seoane, Pablo Montero and Victor Camera.

In 2005, after having contracted marriage with another Venezuelan actor of telenovelas Ricardo lamo, de Sousa returned to Venezuela to participate in the telenovela Ser bonita no basta of the television channel RCTV, a telenovela which was not very successful. It was her first protagonico and artistic failure. The masculine protagonist of this history was interpreted by Ricardo lamo.

In 2006, de Sousa returned to act in another telenovela of RCTV, Y los declaro marido y mujer, a production acclimated in the Venezuelan island of Margarita next to Juan Pablo Raba, Vernica Sneeider, Christina Dickmann, and Marlene De Andrad. In her personal life, Marjorie divorced of Ricardo lamo. As model, Marjorie worked in many advertising campaigns for the Venezuelan and Latin market generally, for marks like Pepsi.

But without a doubt her best contract to the date in that field, has been when integrating herself to the selected group of Chicas Polar; the assembly of gorgeous and young models and actresses who are the main axis of all the publicity of Cerveza Polar. La Cerveza Polar is the most popular of Venezuela and is almost an icon of the country; and the girls of the sexy (and almost erotic) advertising campaign are considered like the elite of the most beautiful and voluptuous women of Venezuela. Therefore, the popularity of Marjorie within Venezuela has grown much since she is one of the Chicas Polar.

In 2007, de Sousa began working in a telenovela called Amor comprado, produced by Venevisin International, the international branch of the Venevisin channel. She acted as the sexy villain called Margot. This telenovela was filmed in Miami, Florida. In addition, she realized the antagonist figure in the telenovela of Venevisin Vieja yo?, interpreting the character Estefania Urrutia.

In 2009, de Sousa recorded the telenovela of Venevisin International, Pecadora, in which she was again antagonist. She also acted in the new telenovela of Venevisin Sacrificio de Mujer, set in Miami. She acted together with Juan Alfonso Baptista, both being the protagonists.

2010s

In 2011, de Sousa acted in Corazon Apasionado, alongside Marlene Favela and Guy Ecker. She prepared for her stage debut with a story of Manuel Mendoza.

In 2012, de Sousa returned to Televisa to play the main antagonist in the award winning telenovela Amores Verdaderos, in which she shared credits with Erika Buenfil, Eduardo Yez, Eiza Gonzalez and Sebastian Rulli.

In 2014, de Sousa played the star as protagonist in Televisa's soap opera Hasta el fin del mundo, in Mexico.

In 2016, de Sousa played the star as protagonist in Sueo de amor in which she shared credits with Betty Monroe, Cristin de la Fuente, Julin Gil, Sabine Moussier, Renata Notni and Santiago Ramundo.

Personal life

She was married to actor Ricardo lamo from 2005 to 2006. Marjorie dated Julin Gil. In 2011, they ended their relationship. Julin Gil and Marjorie got engaged on August 6, 2016 and they are welcomed their first baby 27.1 2017.

Telenovelas

Year	Telenovela	Character	Role
2000	Amantes de Luna Llena	Mayra	Supporting Role
2001	Guerra de mujeres	Carolina	Supporting Role
2002-2003	Gata Salvaje	Camelia Valente	Main Antagonist
2003	Rebeca	Gisela Gidalva	Supporting Role
2003-2004	Mariana de la Noche	Carol	Antagonist
2005	Ser bonita no basta	Coral Torres Olavaria	Protagonist
2006-2007	Y los declaro marido y mujer	Saioa Mujica Segarra	Protagonist
2007-2008	Amor comprado	Margot Salinas	Antagonist
2008-2009	Vieja Yo?	Estefana Urrutia	Main Antagonist
2009	Pecadora	Samantha Savater	Main Antagonist
2010	La mujer perfecta		Special Appearance
	Sacrificio de Mujer	Clemencia Astudillo de Talamonti	Protagonist
2011-2012	Corazon Apasionado	Leticia Bracamontes	Supporting Role
2012-2013	Amores Verdaderos	Kendra Ferreti "Kendrix" / Macaria Chavez	Main Antagonist
2014-2015	Hasta el fin del mundo	Sofia Ripoll Bandy / Sofia Fernndez Bandy de Cruz	Protagonist
2016	Sueo de amor	Cristina Velez Valderrama	Protagonist

Awards and nominations

Year	Awards	Category	Telenovela	Result
2012	Miami Life Awards	Female Protagonist	Sacrificio de Mujer	rowspan=2
2014	TVyNovelas Awards	Best Female Antagonist	Amores Verdaderos
	Los favoritos del publico	The Most Beautiful Girl
		Favorite Villain		rowspan=2
		Favorite Slap from Erika Buenfil