Johanna Rosaly

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Johanna Rosaly
Born January 13, 1948 (1948-01-13) (age 60)
Santurce, Puerto Rico
Years active 1956-present

Johanna Rosaly (born January 13, 1948 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an actress, singer, and television host.

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[edit] Early years

Johanna was born in an area known as Santurce, a district of San Juan. In 1956 at the age of eight, she started taking acting lessons with Argentinians Luis A. Negro and Elba Mania, and dancing lessons with Beatriz Trujillo. In 1957, she made her acting debut as a child, on stage, at Teatro Tapia, in Old San Juan, in Mientras los Niños Juegan (While the Children Play). That same year, she made her debut on television, with channel 2's children's production of Los Amigos de Pinocho (Pinocho's Friends).

[edit] Teenage years

Rosaly started taking singing lessons when she became a teenager. Then, she participated on stage in zarzuelas, (Spaniard musicals} such as "El Caserí­o" (The Country House), and "Black el Payaso" (Black the Clown); operettas, such as, "La duquesa del Bal Tabarin" (The duchess of the Bal Tavern), and musicals performed in English, such as My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music. The latter, allowed her to perform on stage with another Puerto Rican acting legend, "Camille Carrión". In 1966, already in her early years in college, simultaneously made her debut, in the Telenovela El Retrato de Angela (Angela's Portrait), broadcasted by Telemundo. In this soap opera, she played a mute girl. Later, she married her first husband, Puerto Rican film director Jose Gilberto Molinari. They procreated 2 sons and a daughter. Alfonsina Molinari, is Johanna's daughter and she's an actress and an opera singer.

[edit] Singing career

During the 1970s, Johanna had a short but notable career as a singer, and she signed with the Velvet Record Label, and began touring all over Latin America, to promote her two albums under that label. She also attained considerable fame in Spain. Later, she would sign with CBS International Label, now Sony Discos, and recorded two more albums for them.

[edit] Television acting career

Rosaly performed in 15 soap operas altogether from 1966 - 1980. However, the leading roles she is mostly remembered for were, 1973's "El Hijo de Angela Marí­a" (The Son of Angela Marie), alongside "Rolando Barral", "Mona Marti", Angela Meyer, and Lucy Boscana, among others. This performance led her to carry out the same leading role, Marisela Perdomo, in the motion picture film based on the telenovela, in Mexico, opposite Iranian-Mexican actress, Iran Eory, and her cross-over as a singer and actress was, 1978's Cristina Bazan, opposite José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma", and alongside Alba Nydia Díaz, Esther Sandoval, and Adamari Lopez, at the early age of 6, among others.

Rosaly would soon move from Telemundo Puerto Rico to WAPA-TV. There, she performed the leading role in the 1980 soap opera: "El Amor Nuestro de Cada Día" (Our Love of every Single Day), in which she also sang the title song of the same name, composed by Lou Briel. Then, she starred in two other soap operas: "Vida", (Life), & "Amame", (Love Me), opposite Andres Garcia. In the latter telenovelas, she also sang the title songs: "Yo Soy un Barco" (I'm a Ship), and "Amándote" (Loving You), respectively.

[edit] Anchor woman & TV host

As the 1980s came about, Rosaly made a short parenthesis in her acting career, working as an executive in WAPA-TV, and shortly, moved to Telemundo again, and became an entertainment anchor woman and host in the talk-show, "En Vivo a las Cinco", (Live at Five), and in the game show, "Super Sábados", (Super Saturdays) for several years.

[edit] Films

In 1989, she performed alongside Tommy Muniz in the motion picture film, Lo que le Paso a Santiago, (What really happened to Santiago) produced and directed by Jacobo Morales, which was nominated for an Oscar as the best foreign film. In 1993 she performed in, Shortcut to Paradise, and in 1994's Linda Sara, (Pretty Sarah) alongside Chayanne and Dayanara Torres.

[edit] Recent years

During the 1990s, she was dedicated mostly to act on stage in several theater productions acclaimed by the critics, such as her impersonation of Maria Callas in Master Class, among many others, and since 1993, Johanna's been working for WIPR-TV channel 6, Puerto Rico's Government TV Channel, (Tu Universo Televisión), hosting several talk shows, among others, "Mucho Gusto" (It's a Pleasure).

Presently, she hosts "¿Y cómo fue?" (And How Is It?), and "Cultura Viva", (Alive Culture), alongside Puerto Rican actress, "Cordelia Gonzalez".

On Friday, January 11, 2008, Rosaly married José Manuel Saldaña, the former president of the University of Puerto Rico.

[edit] Honors

She has received multiple honors, among them, the Puerto Rican Culture Institute (ICP), dedicated their 1997 film festival to her, honoring her more than 40 years as an actress. ...

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