Olga Adela Zubarriain is a retired Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 film actress. Born in Parque de los Patricios, she is a fan of Huracan, a famous soccer team in Buenos Aires. She made almost 80 appearances in film between 1943 and 1997 spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema.

She began her career at Lumiton studios in 1943 in Safo

Safo

Safo is a huge town and commune in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 6920....

  directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Carlos Hugo Christensen was a major Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer....

. Her rise to fame occurred with the film adaptation (El ángel desnudo) of the novel, Frau Elsie, by Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...

. The film was released in 1946 and was a major success because it was the first time an Argentine actress dared to appear half naked in a film.v In 1962 she appeared in A hierro muere with Alberto de Mendoza

Alberto de Mendoza

Alberto de Mendoza is actor in Argentine cinema, who has appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005 spanning eight decades....

. She won many awards during her career, such as the Martin Fierro (twice) and Condor de Plata.

Family

Zubarry retired in 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

, the year she became a grandmother. She was married for 46 years to Juan Carlos Garate, former president of Argentina Sono Film, a movie company, who died in 2007. She has 2 daughters, Mariana who lives in the United States, and Valeria. She also has 3 grandchildren: Lucia, Facundo and Federico.

Affiliations

During her free time, she works with MAMA (Mis Alumnos Mas Amigos), a charitable organization that works with the children from the streets, located in Villa Ballester

Villa Ballester

Villa Ballester is a city located in the northern Greater Buenos Aires urban area and it is part of the General San Martín Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is served by the Línea Mitre commuter railway with its station also named Villa Ballester...

, in the northern Greater Buenos Aires

Greater Buenos Aires

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