On the Manuela project (series), actors with screenwriters and a team of directors are filming a literary novel and creating a “plot model” for many subsequent telenovelas. Later, screenwriters and directors will imitate Manuela more than once.
Gresia Colmenares
She began her acting career at the age of 11, her experience comes from children's roles on television, where she will receive her first popularity. As she grows up, the girl does not lose her skills from her early work. Much later, in 1991, with her participation, she will strengthen the composition of the crew in the series Manuel, the actors in it will gain immense popularity. Among them, Gresia in the title role will gather millions of viewers from the screens, not only in Latin America. She will also be loved by audiences in Europe and around the world. The Argentine played Isabel Guerrero and her mother Manuel. At the premiere of the first episode in this series, she was 29 years old, before Colmenares had already played roles in 13 major television projects. The creators of the series could rely on her experience, and they entrusted her with a rather complex and characteristic character.
Biography Colmenares
Gresia Colmenares was born in 1962 in Latin America. The girl grew up in a low-income single-parent family of 5 children under the education of a single mother. The future actress had to move in search of a better life. Her career was also an “escape” from poverty.
According to Colmenares, her decision to become an actress comes from a childhood dream as early as 9 years old. On stage in a school theatrical production, she was entrusted with playing the Virgin Mary. After that, no other profession attracted Grecia anymore; she debuted on the screen at age 11. Until adulthood, she managed to star in 4 projects, from that moment she will still remain a sought-after and very recognizable actress for 27 years. After the series "Manuela" the actors are still "living a successful television life," Gresia will play 6 more roles until the end of her career. The last 17 years has not been removed anywhere, at the moment she is 54 years old.
Plot
Performers of all roles in the series and decades later remain popular with the general public in Europe and Latin America. This is a good indication of the quality of this television novel. The actors of the series “Manuela” were popular then and now they remain quite successful people surrounded by their fans. Then the story of the unfortunate girl touched the strings of the soul of many millions of people and became the “trendsetter” in the genre of television novels.
A Sicilian girl is pregnant by her beloved, but is forced to put up with his betrayal. The guy is fleeing responsibility. The heroine herself does not find support even in her family. The poor thing has to run and wander in the status of a homeless person on the streets in Argentina.
There she will be lucky to find good people and good adoptive parents of her unborn daughter. A caring family will arrange Manuela as a housekeeper and promise to adopt her child. But this is just the beginning of the story, followed by a whirlpool of events already in the life of an adult daughter. When the series “Manuela” started on the air, the actors and roles in it remained under the scrutiny of viewers and critics of several countries at once. For the descriptions of Sicilian culture in the initial episodes, the number of fans of the project has replenished with millions of Italians.
Gabriel Corrado
The creators of the series ventured to entrust the role of the cousin of the main character by the name of Rudolph to a not-so-experienced actor, before that he had only 4 works in the series in his track record. Gabriel Corrado received an invitation to shoot the first episode in 30 years, his skills then allowed to adequately collaborate with experienced actors. But still there were risks to get a noticeably weak game from a beginner. Such fears did not materialize, and Gabriel did not hear any special complaints from critics after the premiere of the first episode. Also in the series "Manuela" actors from among his shooting partners noted a fairly high level of professionalism of Corrado.
His debut on the screen took place quite late, at 28, without much preparation, but the Argentineans liked the directors and regularly received an invitation to shoot.
Corrado biography and career
Gabriel Corrado was born in 1960 in the Argentinean Buenos Aires, grew up in an intelligent family. His mother was a teacher by profession, and his father was a civil servant. With such parents, of course, the boy receives a good upbringing and education. He is preparing to become a doctor and enters a medical college, but will exchange the prospect of receiving a respected and prestigious profession for a passion for theater.
It is from the stage that the future star of television series begins to join the acting profession. Over time, he will be noticed and invited already to work in the frame.
The role of Rudolph will give him a tangible boost in his career. After participating in the project "Manuela" (TV series), the actors now still remain in the dim rays of glory. But Corrado ended his acting career 5 years ago.