Thelma Biral

That year, Xirgu recommended her young protégé to Buenos Aires' important San Martín Theatre, at the time mounting a televised production of Federico García Lorca's Yerma.

Among her numerous stage performances after becoming a household name on television was opposite veteran comic Niní Marshall in Roberto Romero's Coqueluche (1972).

She was cast by noted period piece director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson for two thrillers: La maffia (1972) and Los siete locos (Seven Madmen), the following year.

She returned to soaps in 1976 for Alberto Migré's Dos a quererse (Two for Love) and in 1980, accepted perhaps her most memorable role as an alcoholic in Fernando Ayala's Desde el abismo (From the Abyss).

[4] She accepted a role in a 1994 edition of her first soap opera, "Love Has a Woman's Face," and in 1997, portrayed a struggling artist's estranged mother in Fernando Díaz's Plaza de almas.