María Aurelia Bisutti


María Aurelia Bisutti was an Argentine film and TV actress, with over 50 Argentine cinema and television credits between 1948 and 1993, as well as numerous roles in the theatre.

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, she received her first film roles in 1948 through a radio audition hosted by a popular variety show of the time, Diario del cine, and first worked with directors Benito Perojo and Carlos Schlieper. Bisutti earned her first television role in a 1960 documentary on the lives of Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas. She was given the lead role in Pedro Escudero's A puerta cerrada, and starred in period piece filmmaker Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Martín Fierro. Bisutti also became well known on the radio, starring in a number of soap operas.
She received a Martín Fierro Award for lifetime achievement in 1999. She continued to work on the airwaves, starring in the public radio series, , from 2002.

Filmography