Marjorie de Sousa

Marjorie Lissette de Sousa Rivas (born 23 April 1980) is a Venezuelan actress, model and singer. She is known worldwide for her villainous roles in telenovelas. Career 1999–2009: Beginnings and notable roles At age 12, de Sousa began her career doing television commercials and working as a model. In 1999, she entered the beauty pageant Miss Venezuela in the hands of the famous Venezuelan designer Giovanni Scutaro. A year later, she worked on her first telenovela, Amantes de luna llena, which was produced and broadcast by the television channel Venevisión. In 2001, she co-starred in the hit telenovela Guerra de mujeres, with the character Carolina, one of the most popular in the plot. In 2002, de Sousa left Venezuela to work on the telenovela Gata salvaje, a co-production of Venevisión and the Spanish-American channel Univision. In this internationally acclaimed novel, she plays Camelia Valente, an antagonist in which she has perhaps been one of her best characters, achieving her international projection. Next, she worked on another successful Univision telenovela called Rebeca, where she had the character of Gisela, another role where she acted as an antagonist. At the end of that production, de Sousa went to work on the Mexican telenovela Mariana de la noche, produced by Televisa; there her character had the name of Carol, also as an antagonist.