Luisa Vehil

Luisa Vehil was born in 1912 in Montevideo, Uruguay, she belongs to an eight generation dynasty of actors originally from Catalonia; daughter and granddaughter of theatre players.

Luisa moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina at an early age, and starred in her first movie in 1933, Los tres berretines, directed by Enrique Telémaco Susini.

She played Mary Stuart, Juana La Loca, Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Madame Desmortes in Jean Anouilh's L'Invitation au Château and L'Alouette (The Lark), Alejandro Casona's Los árboles mueren de pie, etc.

Turning to TV, Vehil starred in the hour-long program Navidad en el año 2000 in 1981 and hosted the show Las 24 horas from 1982 to 1985.

Her last acting performance was in Kindergarten (1989), a controversial film by Jorge Polaco, censored one day short from its release (the first case of censorship in the country following the end of the Dirty War six years prior).