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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1949-08-05

Place of Birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rita Cortese

Biography

Adela Rita Cortese (born August 5, 1949, in Buenos Aires) is a renowned Argentine actress and singer. Her career spans across films, series, and telenovelas, earning her three Martín Fierro Awards as well as a Silver Condor Award. In 1967, she began studying Philosophy and Letters but dropped out a year later. In 1974, she entered the theater school directed by Néstor Raimondi, although, according to her own statements, she started her professional career in 1972 at the Teatro Latino in San Telmo. As a film actress, she worked in La nube, and in 2003, she received the Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for Herencia. As a television actress, she received a Martín Fierro Award in 2002 for her performance in the telenovela El sodero de mi vida and another in 2008 for her special appearance in the sitcom Lalola. That same year, she released her first album titled El amor, ese loco berretín, in which she performs various tango ballads; the album won her the Carlos Gardel Award for Best New Tango Artist in 2009. In 2014, she was one of the stars of the hit film Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales), which was nominated for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival and for an Oscar.

Known for

Endless Summer

Endless Summer

Verano del '98 is an Argentine telenovela, produced by Cris Morena. It was broadcast on Telefe television in the period January 12, 1998-November 17, 2000. The telenovela had three seasons, and changed its cast many times. Cris Morena also composed songs for Verano del '98 soundtrack.

Costumbres argentinas

Costumbres argentinas

The story of the rivalry between two families, the Rosettis and the Pagliaros. Vicente Rosetti and Ernesto Pagliaro have known each other since they were children; they were schoolmates and close friends until life, ideas, and love separated them.

Los secretos de Papá

Los secretos de Papá

Montecristo

Montecristo

Montecristo was an Argentine telenovela produced by Grupo Telefe, premiered on April 24, 2006, on Telefe, which achieved great national and international success.

Captive

Captive

An Argentine dramatic television miniseries co-produced by TNT and FLOW. It follows the life of a nun who, after fifteen years, manages to escape from a cloistered convent where she was a victim of psychological abuse and held against her will. Starring Carolina Kopelioff, Lorena Vega, Rita Cortese, and Julieta Zylberberg.

Killer Women

Killer Women

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

In the Mud

In the Mud

Five female prisoners forge a unique bond after a deadly accident... until corruption and turf wars within a ruthless prison threaten to destroy them.

Esperanza mía

Esperanza mía

Lalola

Lalola

Lalo Padilla, a chauvinistic man and the director of a popular men's magazine, fell victim to a revenge spell cast by one of his mistresses after he stood her up. Upon waking, Lalo discovered that his body had transformed into that of a woman. Now known as Lola, he must live this way while searching for a way to become Lalo again.

Wild Tales

Wild Tales

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

Maradona, Blessed Dream

Maradona, Blessed Dream

The controversial life and history of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. From his beginnings in Villa Fiorito, one of the poorest barrios of Buenos Aires, to achieving glory on the international football league. Earning himself a well-deserved place in history. Living a life strewn with drugs, sex and public scrutiny, he played by his own rules regardless of the consequences. Watch the man who took the world by storm and made his way into the hearts of millions.

The Best Heart Attack of My Life

The Best Heart Attack of My Life

Ariel, a ghostwriter with a scandalous life, falls into crisis when his wife leaves him. A compulsive smoker, overweight, and with a sense of humor as dark as his underwear, he suffers a heart attack while staying in a rented house in another country, alongside a girl he has just met. This emotional event begins to bring new meaning to his life and the lives of many people around him.

1000 millones

1000 millones

The Man of Your Dreams

The Man of Your Dreams

The Mind Behind Power

The Mind Behind Power

The president-elect's psychologist is blackmailed by a mysterious organization to force the chief executive to resign.