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Sabine Moussier as Frida in Entre el amor y el odio |
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| Born | Diana Sabine Moussier 12 July 1966 Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Partner | Jorge Peralta (2002–08) |
| Children | Camila Peralta Moussier (born 15 July 2003) Paulo Peralta Moussier (born 3 July 2006) |
Diana Sabine Moussier (Spanish pronunciation: [saˈβine musiˈe];[1] born 12 July 1966) is a German-Mexican actress who is best known for her work, frequently as a villainess, in numerous Mexican telenovelas such as El privilegio de amar, Entre el amor y el odio, and La madrastra.
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Moussier was born on 12 July 1966 in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. While still a very small child, Moussier and her mother left Europe and immigrated to Mexico. Moussier had a quiet childhood in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, but as a teenager she took an interest in acting and eventually moved to Mexico City, where she attended Televisa's Centro de Educación Artística.[2]
Soon after graduating from CEA, Moussier found work as the co-host of Al ritmo de la noche with Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo. Shortly thereafter, in 1996, she was cast in minor roles in the telenovelas Morir dos veces and Luz Clarita. The following year, Moussier portrayed the pianist Mireya Serrano in María Isabel.[2]
Moussier's star recognition increased in 1998 when she was cast in the successful novela El privilegio de amar as the sympathetic model Lorenza Torres, which some have referred to as Moussier's best role as of yet.[3] Moussier later won the award for Best New Actress at the 1999 Premios TVyNovelas ceremony for her portrayal of Lorenza. That same year, Moussier took on two new roles. First, she portrayed the minor character of Cristina in popular teen novela Rosalinda; later, she took on the role of the adulterous Diana de Lizárraga in Mujeres engañadas alongside Arturo Peniche.
In 2001, Moussier joined the cast of El derecho de nacer, a remake of the 1981 original, as Graciela, a seemingly demure secretary who, disguised as a nun, frequents Yucatec brothels in order to satisfy not only her clients' base desires, but her own as well.[3] In her portrayal of the unbalanced Graciela, according to Televisa, producers and viewers were first introduced to the full range of Moussier's acting talent. The following year, she starred alongside César Évora and Susana González in Entre el amor y el odio, in which she portrayed the scheming Frida, the series' primary villainess, who plots alongside the odious Marcial (Alberto Estrella) to marry Évora's Octavio and gain control of his family's lands.
Following the August 2002 finale of Entre el amor y el odio, Moussier took a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from her career in order to give birth to and care for her newborn daughter, returning in 2005 with two new novelas. In February, Moussier once again appeared as Évora's ex-fiancée in the popular La madrastra as the vain and haughty murder suspect Fabiola de Mendizábal, a character with hints of mental instability who nonetheless redeems herself by the novela's end and winds up happy with her equally suspicious husband, Bruno (René Casados). Three months later, she debuted in Piel de otoño as ambitious businesswoman Rebeca Franco, who carries on an affair with the heroine's villainous husband Ramón (Sergio Goyri).
After finishing Piel de otoño, Moussier took part in the theatrical play Hombres.[4] After giving birth to her second child, she returned to telenovelas late in 2006 as mafia boss Eva Santoro in Amar sin límites. The role marked a change for Moussier, as Eva Santoro, while a villain, was neither an unfaithful wife, nor a husband-stealer, nor a terrible mother, categories into which the majority of her previous characters could be sorted. Despite her evil deeds, Eva became a popular character with the viewing audience, who came to view her more favorably than series heroine Azul (Karyme Lozano) and lamented her death.[3] For her work as Eva, Moussier was nominated at the 2007 Premios TVyNovelas for Best Actress in the Role of an Antagonist. That same year, she briefly reunited with the cast of La madrastra and again took up the role of Fabiola in order to re-film the final ten episodes of the telenovela, which was being re-aired at the time, and provide a new resolution to the murder mystery. Soon thereafter, she joined the star-studded cast of the mini-novela Amor sin maquillaje, which honored the fiftieth anniversary of Televisa and telenovelas in Mexico, as Beatriz, and was again paired with Piel de otoño co-star Sergio Goyri.
In 2008, Moussier took on the role of Marissa in Las tontas no van al cielo, a character with which the actress professed to be enamored.[5] Marissa, too, was at first unlike many of Moussier's previous characters; although selfish and self-absorbed, Marissa becomes a more sympathetic character after it is revealed that she was forced to have an unwanted abortion at the age of 15 and after her fiancé Santiago (Jaime Camil) leaves her, pregnant, at the altar for her friend, Candy (Jacqueline Bracamontes). However, much to Moussier's dismay,[5] Marissa was changed dramatically so that the character seemingly went crazy; while some sources claimed that it was necessary to change Marissa because the public wanted a traditional villainess, others claimed that the radical alterations were made because writers feared that the public liked Marissa more than the heroine, Candy.[3] After wrapping up the filming of Las tontas, Moussier replaced Edith González as the protagonist, Elena Tejero, in the musical play Aventurera, but she eventually had to withdraw from the cast a few months later following a leg injury.[2]
The final year of the decade saw Moussier tackle the role of the seductive, social-climbing Justina Almada de Huerta, her first role as the mother of adult characters, in Mi pecado. During the filming of Mi pecado, Moussier was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, and although she and producer Juan Osorio Ortiz initially altered her filming schedule in order to accommodate her recovery, she was eventually forced to withdraw from the cast shortly before the finale; her character, Justina, was not recast, as Osorio had planned in advance for the possibility of Moussier's departure.[6]
In 1999, Moussier began dating Rodrigo Santos, and they moved in together shortly thereafter. The couple eventually split in 2002 after two-and-a-half years together.[7] Later that year, Moussier started a relationship with Chilean businessman Jorge Peralta,[8] and the couple's daughter, Camila Peralta Moussier, was born on 15 July 2003 in Mexico City.[9] They later welcomed their son, Paulo Peralta Moussier, on 3 July 2006.[10] Moussier and Peralta subsequently split in January 2008, publicly announcing their separation a month later on 19 February.[8] Although Moussier often referred to Peralta as her husband,[11] Peralta himself told gossip magazine TVnotas that the couple was never officially married; however, because Moussier and Peralta had cohabitted for more than five years and had had children together, they were required, under the Mexican Constitution, to formally divorce nonetheless.[12] Shortly after breaking up with Peralta, Moussier began dating a young man named Juan,[12] but they ended their relationship in 2009.[13]
In April 2009, Moussier became involved in a very public and lengthy war of words with fellow actress Sherlyn, who brought a lawsuit against Moussier's former partner Peralta in which she accused him of defrauding her of MXN$2 million while they were dating.[14] Moussier paid Peralta's debt herself and then publicly denounced Sherlyn when the younger actress did not immediately drop the charges against Peralta.[15] Peralta was eventually released from prison on 14 May,[16] but Moussier later accused Sherlyn of violating the non-aggression pact that was included in the settlement of the lawsuit and threatened to reveal information that would ruin Sherlyn's career.[17] The two actresses eventually came to an understanding following a telephone call and subsequently called a truce.[18]
In late 2009, Moussier developed Guillain-Barré syndrome and was forced to alter her shooting schedule on Mi pecado in order to promote her recovery.[19] According to Juan Osorio, the producer of Mi pecado, Moussier's illness traveled from her spinal cord to her brain, affecting her ability to remember her lines and causing her such pain that doctors were forced to put her under sedation; additionally, he claimed that Moussier might be left paralyzed as a result of the illness.[6][20] As a result of her worsening health, Moussier was forced to leave the cast of Mi pecado shortly before the completion of filming.[21] Moussier announced in late November 2009 that her health was improving and that she would not be left paralyzed, although she stressed that Guillain-Barré "is an illness that takes months [from which to recover]".[22] Although she had recovered from Guillain-Barré by March 2010, her health has been further complicated by a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome.[23]
| Television | |||
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Morir dos veces | Paullette | |
| Luz Clarita | Unknown | ||
| 1997 | María Isabel | Mireya Serrano | |
| 1998 | El privilegio de amar | Lorenza Torres | |
| 1999 | Rosalinda | Cristina | |
| Mujeres engañadas | Diana de Lizárraga | ||
| 2001 | El derecho de nacer | Graciela | |
| 2002 | Entre el amor y el odio | Frida de Villarreal | Antagonist |
| 2005 | La madrastra | Fabiola de Mendizábal | Antagonist |
| Piel de otoño | Rebeca Franco | Antagonist | |
| 2006 | Amar sin límites | Eva Santoro | Antagonist |
| 2007 | La madrastra (new scenes) | Fabiola de Mendizábal | Antagonist |
| Amor sin maquillaje | Beatriz | Antagonist | |
| 2008 | Las tontas no van al cielo | Marissa | Main Antagonist |
| 2009 | Mi pecado | Justina Almada de Huerta | Antagonist |
| 2011 | Ni contigo ni sin ti | Eleonor Cortazar | Protagonist |
| 2012 | Abismo de pasion | Carmina Berger | Antagonist |
| Theatre | |||
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2005 | Hombres | ||
| 2008 | Aventurera | Elena Tejero | Lead role |
| Year | Category | Program | Role | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Best New Actress | El privilegio de amar | Lorenza Torres | Won |
| 2007 | Best Actress in the Role of an Antagonist | Amar sin límites | Eva Santoro | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Program | Role | Result |
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| 2006 | Outstanding Character Actress | La madrastra | Fabiola de Mendizábal | Won |