Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez, popularly known as Mirtha Legrand He is celebrating today, one more year of life. The queen mother of television will hold a super celebration for more than 25 guests, who must be swabbed to attend the event, and celebrate her birthday with her.
From a very young age he joined the so-called “golden age” of Argentine cinema and became an emblem of white comedies, in films such as “Tuesdays, orchids”, “The Portrait”, “Need to educate Niní” and La Pequeña Señora Pérez, for which she won the AACCA Best Actress award.
In 1968, he began his television program Almorzando con las estrellas, broadcast on Channel 9 and uninterruptedly, except for brief periods, remained on the air and went through all the stations.
In 2012, he starred in La dueña, which marked his return to television acting after 46 years. And throughout her life she starred in 36 films between 1940 and 1965.
In 1945 she married the film director Daniel Tinayre with whom she had two children, Daniel Andrés who died of pancreatic cancer and Marcela, mother of her two three grandchildren, Ignacio, Juana and Rocco.
He had two brothers, the eldest was the film director José A. Martínez Suárez who died in 2019 and his twin sister, the retired actress Silvia Legrand (Goldi), his great confidant, who died in 2020.
To learn more about Chiqui, a nickname she earned for being smaller than her twin sister, we tell you that her favorite series is El Zorro, who usually wakes up in the morning with the theme “El Bombón Asesino”, she is a lover reading and often spends many hours of the night reading various books.
Throughout her career she had to face her greatest pains in front of the camera, such as when her eldest son Daniel Andrés died and that of her husband and partner Daniel Tinayre Sr. in 1994.
He has an Instagram account where he interacts with his followers and shares moments from his life as well as funny excerpts from his show.
