Susana Zabaleta
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Susana Zabaleta Ramos is a Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 singer and actress.

Early life

Born in Monclova, Coahuila, she moved to Mexico City in 1985. In 1986 she performed in the Sala Ollín Yoliztli and interpreted opera performances, such as La Traviata
La traviata
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...

, Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. The first known performance was at Josias Priest's girls' school in London no later than the summer of 1688. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid...

and Eneas . She also performed with the group Quien es quien.

Career

In 1987 Zabaleta debuted on the stage with the musicals El violinista en el tejado and Don Quijote de la mancha. In 1991 she participated in the Mexican version of Cats
Cats (musical)
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...

along with María del Sol
María del Sol
María del Sol is a Mexican singer. She is the daughter of the late lawyer Alonso Echánove and the actress/journalist Josefina Echánove and the younger sister of Peggy Echánove and actor Alonso Echánove.In the 1970s, she auditioned with music producer Luis de Llano and got married at the age of 16...

 .

In 1995, she recorded her first album titled ¿O fué un sueño? and in 1996, recorded the Spanish version of the Disney's film Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the head of a network of tributary tribal nations in Tidewater Virginia...

: Los Colores en el viento .

Her acting career started in the telenovelas in 1993. In 1996 she filmed her first film Sobrenatural, a film horror directed by her husband, the film director Daniel Gruener.

In 1998, she participated in the Mexican movie Sexo, pudor y lagrimas
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....

(directed by Antonio Serrano
Antonio Serrano
José Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter.He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England and the Odin Teatre of Denmark...

) for which she won the Silver Ariel Award as Best Actress.

In recent years Zabaleta has collaborated with the Mexican composer Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America....

 with whom she has recorded two albums: de la A a la Z (2006) and Amarrados (2009).

She was also in the Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

's reality shows Cantando por un sueño
Cantando por un sueño
Cantando por un Sueño is a television contest produced by the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas which also aired on Univision in the United States. As with its twin show Bailando por un sueño , celebrities are paired with common, everyday people...

(2006) and Me quiero enamorar (2009).

Filmography

  • Sobrenatural (1996)
  • Elisa antes del fin del mundo (1997)
  • Sexo, pudor y lagrimas
    Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
    Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....

    (1998)
  • Crónica de un desayuno (1999)
  • Vivir Mata (2001)

Television

  • Cadenas de Amargura (1991)
  • Milagro y Magia (1991)
  • Al filo de la muerte (1991)
  • La sombra del otro (1996)
  • Pueblo chico, infierno grande
    Pueblo chico, infierno grande
    Pueblo chico, infierno grande is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 1997. Pueblo chico, infierno grande is a historical telenovela set in the Pre-Mexican Revolution period. It also aired on Univision in the United States...

    (1997)
  • Una luz en el camino (1998)
  • Mi destino eres tu
    Mi Destino Eres Tú
    Mi destino eres tú is a 2000 Mexican telenovela. It is a production of Carla Estrada and the protagonists were Lucero and Jorge Salinas.-Main cast:*Lucero as Andrea San Vicente*Jorge Salinas as Eduardo Rivadeneira...

    (2000)
  • Salomé
    Salomé (telenovela)
    Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired in 2001-2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.-Plot:The first part of the story takes part in the 1980s. Salomé, who was abandoned as a child by her mother, is a cabaret dancer who works at the cabaret Salón D'Rubí. Her best friend, Karicia,...

    (2002)
  • Bajo la misma piel (2003)
  • Cantando por un sueño
    Cantando por un sueño
    Cantando por un Sueño is a television contest produced by the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas which also aired on Univision in the United States. As with its twin show Bailando por un sueño , celebrities are paired with common, everyday people...

    (2006)
  • S.O.S:Sexo y otros secretos (2008)
  • Fuego en la sangre
    Fuego en la sangre
    Fuego en la sangre is a 1966 Argentine film....

    (2008)
  • Los simuladores
    Los Simuladores
    Los Simuladores is an Argentinian television series about a small team of con artists for hire, who use their skills to solve common people's life problems. The show ran for two seasons, from 2002 to 2003. It was very popular and highly acclaimed, winning a Golden Martín Fierro Award. A number of...

    (2009)
  • Me quiero enamorar (2009)
  • Entre El Amor y el deseo (Tv Azteca) (2010)

Stage credits

  • Barnum (1986)
  • El Violinista en el tejado (1986)
  • Magnolias de Acero (1988)
  • Mi vida es mi vida (1988)
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha (1988)
  • Sor-Presas (1989)
  • Que planton! (1989)
  • Cats
    Cats (musical)
    Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...

    (1991)
  • Pocahontas
    Pocahontas
    Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the head of a network of tributary tribal nations in Tidewater Virginia...

     con La Malinche
    La Malinche
    La Malinche , known also as Malintzin, Malinalli or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover and intermediary for Hernán Cortés...

    (1995)
  • El hombre de la mancha (2000)
  • Los Moólogos de la vagina (2002)

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