Carmen Platero

María del Carmen Platero (August 3, 1933 – March 16, 2020), known as Carmen Platero, was an Afro-Argentine playwright and actress who worked to promote Afro-descendant culture in Latin America. In 1987, she co-founded the theater group Comedia Negra de Buenos Aires.

Early life and education Carmen Platero was born in 1933 in La Plata, Argentina. She was one of seven children born to Tomás Nemesio Platero and Ana Francisca Prola, who moved the family to Tandil when Carmen was 3 years old.

Platero attended the normal school in Tandil, and then, starting in 1959, continued her studies at the Escuela de Teatro La Plata, where she found her true passion. Her first major performance, in Roberto Habegger's one-woman show Tango para solo de mujer, came in the early 1970s. The year after Argentina returned to democracy in 1983, she returned to her home country.

Personal life and death Carmen Platero was married to the journalist Tomás Saraví, with whom she had four children.

She died in 2020, in Tandil, at age 86.