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).

She continued to work on the airwaves, starring in the public radio series, Las dos carátulas, from 2002.

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