Pelusa Vera

María de los Ángeles Vera Montecoral (born 19 August 1940), known professionally as Pelusa Vera, is a Uruguayan actress, considered "one of the most prominent figures of theater and television in Uruguay." She began her career as a model, but then went to the theater and from there to television. She also ventured into radio. She was part of the cast of both Uruguayan and Argentine humor shows, such as , Teatro como en el teatro, Decalegrón, , , and Zapping.

She has received several awards and acted in several countries in Latin America and Europe. In 2010 she received an ex gratia pension "in virtue of services rendered to the national culture."

Career His father, Dionisio Alejandro Vera, was a journalist for the newspaper El País, editor of a feature called "Filosofía de los lagartos". When Vera was about 15 years old, she started working at the Club de Teatro with Antonio Larreta, and began modeling. She acted at the and at the University Theater, in plays by Peter Shaffer and Charles Dyer, among others. She was one of the first to appear on television in Uruguay, working for the three private channels (4, 10, and 12) in programs, commercials, and parades between 1957 and 1964.

She made her radio debut in the series Radioteatro de las Estrellas, in radio plays of the Radio Nacional studio at Palacio Salvo. In 1962 she made her debut in , a Uruguayan humor program that was also broadcast in Argentina. Jaujarana, Teatro como en el teatro, Alta comedia, Hiperhumor, Zapping, and Shopping Center. In the 1980s she hosted two radio programs: La Revista de Pelusa on Radio Maldonado and Veraneando en Punta, broadcast to several cities in Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil on Radio Sarandí. She also hosted her first television program, Pelusa TV los sábados, broadcast on Channel 9 from Punta del Este. She followed this up from 1993 to 1995 with a program on which she was also a producer, Todo bien, which would be broadcast by cable and nationwide TV on 25 channels, as well as in Argentina and Brazil. Cosas mías would remain running until 2004. In September 2009, the executive branch was asked to grant her an ex gratia pension "by virtue of services provided to the national culture,"

In 2011 she participated in a video produced by members of the Movement for a Sustainable Uruguay and the Commission of Neighbors and Friends of Punta del Diablo, to warn about the risks of surface mining. Other Uruguayan personalities appeared alongside her, such as Osvaldo Laport, Pitufo Lombardo, Miguel Nogueira, Cristina Morán, Eunice Castro, Silvia Kliche, and Dani Umpi.

Filmography (1985)

Awards In the 1970s, Vera won a poetry contest of the together with other actors, and as a result, in 1973 10 of her poems were published in the book Los actores poetas.