Susana Giménez (mostly referred to as
Susana), née
María Susana Giménez Aubert (born January 29, 1945 in
Buenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital, and largest city, of Argentina, currently the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the eastern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
) is an
ArgentineArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
actress and television host. Giménez started her career as a scantily-clad model in a soap commercial (where she sat on a rock, and uttered the word
shock!) and went on to achieve fame as a
vedetteThe French military term vedette , migrated into English and other languages to refer to a mounted sentry or outpost, who has the function of bringing information, giving signals or warnings of danger, etc, to a main body of troops...
with
Nelida RocaNelida Roca , was one of the first divas of Argentina.Her friends and colleagues fondly called her La Roca , the journalists and the public also called her the venus goddess of Corrientes Avenue .Since childhood, she always sought to become a famous artist, but...
, also as a film actress, and TV hostess and producer.
Most of her filming career was in adult-oriented comedies, acting opposite
Alberto OlmedoAlberto Olmedo was an Argentine comedian and actor.Olmedo was born in Barrio Pichincha, Rosario, Santa Fe Province. In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success.Olmedo moved to Buenos Aires in...
,
Jorge PorcelJorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta was a comedy actor and television host from Argentina. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América...
, and fellow
vedette Moria CasánMoria Casán is an Argentine actress, dancer and singer.- Career :Following in the footsteps of Argentine revue diva Nelida Roca, Moria Casán became a stage sex symbol and chorus girl. She started as a dancer but immediately acquired major roles due to her versatility, powerful voice and on-screen...
.
In the 1970s, she dated
middleweightMiddleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867...
boxingBoxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...
champion
Carlos MonzónCarlos Monzón was an Argentine boxer who held the world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he made a then-division record of 14 defenses...
, in a widely publicized romance.
Susana Giménez (mostly referred to as
Susana), née
María Susana Giménez Aubert (born January 29, 1945 in
Buenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital, and largest city, of Argentina, currently the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the eastern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
) is an
ArgentineArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
actress and television host. Giménez started her career as a scantily-clad model in a soap commercial (where she sat on a rock, and uttered the word
shock!) and went on to achieve fame as a
vedetteThe French military term vedette , migrated into English and other languages to refer to a mounted sentry or outpost, who has the function of bringing information, giving signals or warnings of danger, etc, to a main body of troops...
with
Nelida RocaNelida Roca , was one of the first divas of Argentina.Her friends and colleagues fondly called her La Roca , the journalists and the public also called her the venus goddess of Corrientes Avenue .Since childhood, she always sought to become a famous artist, but...
, also as a film actress, and TV hostess and producer.
Most of her filming career was in adult-oriented comedies, acting opposite
Alberto OlmedoAlberto Olmedo was an Argentine comedian and actor.Olmedo was born in Barrio Pichincha, Rosario, Santa Fe Province. In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success.Olmedo moved to Buenos Aires in...
,
Jorge PorcelJorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta was a comedy actor and television host from Argentina. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América...
, and fellow
vedette Moria CasánMoria Casán is an Argentine actress, dancer and singer.- Career :Following in the footsteps of Argentine revue diva Nelida Roca, Moria Casán became a stage sex symbol and chorus girl. She started as a dancer but immediately acquired major roles due to her versatility, powerful voice and on-screen...
.
In the 1970s, she dated
middleweightMiddleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867...
boxingBoxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...
champion
Carlos MonzónCarlos Monzón was an Argentine boxer who held the world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he made a then-division record of 14 defenses...
, in a widely publicized romance. Their liaison ended in 1978.
Giménez is the host of a highly-rated
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
variety showA variety show or variety entertainment is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and comedy skits, and normally introduced by a compère or host. The variety format made its way from Victorian era stage to radio to television...
in Argentina, similar in format to those of
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(in
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),
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(in
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), Gisela Varcárcel (in
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), and
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(in
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and
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[The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...]
). Giménez entered into the Guinness Book of Records because all the letters and phone calls she received in her show. In 1997 she was awarded with the Golden
Martín Fierro AwardMartín Fierro is the name of the most prominent awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. The awards were first given in 1959, limited to television. It was embodied on a statuette of a gaucho, by sculptor Luis...
for her show.
In November 30, 2005 she finished the 18th season of the show.
Some of Susana's guests included
ShakiraShakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a musical prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the early 1990s...
,
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,
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,
Valeria MazzaValeria Raquel Mazza is an Argentine fashion model.She was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, and discovered when she was only 16 years old by hairstylist Roberto Giordano. She rose to fame in 1996 when she appeared on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover with Tyra Banks, Guess and presented the...
,
Verónica CastroVerónica Castro is a Mexican actress, singer and television host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michelle Sáinz Castro and the sister of telenovela producer José Alberto Castro....
,
Paulina RubioPaulina Rubio Dosamantes is a nominated Grammy and Latin Grammy and 6 time winner of Billboard Latin Music Awards Mexican singer and actress. Known as "The Golden Girl" and "Queen of Latin Pop"...
,
ChayanneElmer Figueroa Arce , best known under the stage name Chayanne, is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer.-Early life:Elmer Figueroa Arce was born in Rio Piedras, a suburb of San Juan, to Quintino Figueroa, a sales manager, and Irma Luz Arce, a teacher. When he was still a baby, his family moved to San...
,
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,
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,
Ricky MartinEnrique Martín Morales , better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Grammy Award- and Latin Grammy Award- winning, Puerto Rican pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.His career has spanned over three decades and has sold...
, Luis Miguel,
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,
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Fran DrescherFrancine Joy "Fran" Drescher is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, tv director, producer, author, activist and political lobbyist best known for playing Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny.-Early life:Drescher was born...
,
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,
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,
Marcelo TinelliMarcelo Hugo Tinelli is an Argentine TV host, media producer and businessman, best known as the host of the TV show Showmatch broadcast on Argentina's Canal 13...
,
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,
ThalíaAriadna Thalía Sodi Miranda, known simply as Thalía, is a Mexican pop singer and former actress. Her name is linked to popular soap operas which made her famous. Thalia began her musical career at the age of 9. Her soap operas have been watched by over one billion people...
,
Robbie WilliamsRobert Peter Williams, better known as Robbie Williams is a BRIT Award-winning English British singer-songwriter. His career started in 1989, at the age of 15, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. He left the band in 1995 to launch his solo career...
,
Julio IglesiasJulio Iglesias is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million copies in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists ever...
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Alejandro SanzAlejandro Sanz, born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18 1968 in Madrid, is an award winning, Spanish pop/ballad musician and singer-songwriter. Sanz is the recipient of 15 Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards...
, Suzana Vieira,
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,
Viggo MortensenViggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer, and painter.His film roles include Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Frank T...
,
XuxaXuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian Grammy Award Winner, television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, Spanish, and English...
, The Bee Gees, among many other national and international superstars.
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