María Aurelia Bisutti

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, she received her first film roles in 1948 through a radio audition hosted by a popular variety show of the time, Diario del cine, and first worked with directors Benito Perojo and Carlos Schlieper. Bisutti earned her first television role in a 1960 documentary on the lives of Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas. She was given the lead role in Pedro Escudero's A puerta cerrada (1962), and starred in period piece filmmaker Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Martín Fierro (1968). Bisutti also became well-known on the radio, starring in a number of soap operas.

She received a Martín Fierro Award for lifetime achievement in 1999. She continued to work on the airwaves, starring in the public radio series, Las dos carátulas, from 2002.