Adelaida Pérez Hung is a

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

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, and radio writer. She was born in

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(

) on December 16, 1959. Pérez Hung studied

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in the former

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and graduated in 1984. She was a professor at the

University of Matanzas The University of Matanzas "Camilo Cienfuegos" (Spanish: ''Universidad de Matanzas "Camilo Cienfuegos"'', UM) is a public university in Matanzas, Cuba. It was founded in 1972 and is organized in seven faculties. Organization The seven faculties ...

and head of Dramatic Programming of the CMKC radio station in Santiago de Cuba. In 1998, she was appraised as an actress and in 2002, she won the Best Female Actress Award in the María Elena Calzado Memorial Festival in Santiago de Cuba. Since 1995, she has acted in many first-place winning programs and has been well received in national radio festivals. She has also won awards for her historical programming scripts in seven national festivals and Mención Especial del Fórum Nacional de Ciencia y Técnica 2001 from the

Cuban Institute of Radio and Television The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (; ICRT) was the government agency responsible for the control of radio and television broadcasters in Cuba. On August 24, 2021, the institute ceased to operate and was replaced by the Institute of In ...

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*This article was translated from the equivalent article in the Spanish Wikipedia on April 7, 2017. Cuban radio actors 1959 births Living people 20th-century Cuban actresses 21st-century Cuban actresses People from Santiago de Cuba {{Cuba-actor-stub