Isabel Moreno


Isabel Moreno Pérez 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 died on 9 June 2024, at the age of 82.

Early career

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.
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, 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 and with the mentorship of, 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. 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:El millonario y la maleta by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda... GabrielaBernarda ... AdelaThe Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega... Countess DianaEl becerro de oro by ... BelénEl Conde Alarcos by José Jacinto Milanés... BlancaLa dolorosa historia de amor secreto de José Jacinto Milanés by Abelardo Estorino... CarlotaA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen... NoraThe House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca... AdelaLas impuras by ... Teresa TrebijoBlood Wedding by Federico García Lorca... The BrideSanta Camila de la Habana Vieja by José Ramón Brene... CamilaMorir del cuento by Abelardo Estorino... Delfina the old woman¿Y quién va a tomar café? by José Milián... The Grandmother

Theater in the United States

Awards

  • 1987: UNEAC Award for best lead actress for ¿Y quién va a tomar café?
  • 2007: HOLA Award for best lead actress for ''O.K.''