Nelly Beatriz Bonnet (born Nelly Beatris Auchter Bonnet; 11 December 1930 – 19 February 2020) was an Argentine film and television actress and comedian.
Biography
Beatriz Bonnet was born in
Gualeguay, Entre Ríos
Gualeguay is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, on the Gualeguay River, about 226 km from the provincial capital Paraná and 234 km north-west from Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Auto ...
on 11 December 1930 to Mariana Amelia Bonnet, a single mother. Mariana's father was Ernest Bonnet, an
English immigrant man.
[Lamazares, Silvina]
«Beatriz Bonnet: “Nunca pierdo el humor”»
en el diario ''Clarín'', del 26 de noviembre de 2011.
At 15, Bonnet married a man named López Verde, but the couple split a year later. She moved to
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
, where she studied dance, singing, and acting. While working at a candy shop, Bonnet was recruited by
Pedro R. Bravo to act in ''Mansedumbre'', the first film to be shot in
Tucumán Province
Tucumán () is the most densely populated, and the second-smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina.
Located in the northwest of the country, the province has the capital of San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighb ...
.
In mid-1951, she joined the staff of the Cinematographic Institute of the
National University of Tucumán
The National University of Tucumán (; UNT) is an Education in Argentina, Argentine national university located in Tucumán Province and the largest in Argentina's northwest region. Founded on 25 May 1914 in San Miguel de Tucumán, access to the ...
, at that time being funded by the Argentine government.
Bonnet entered the Institute of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and was hired by theatre director to perform in comedies in the Astral Theater. She took classes with .
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On television, Bonnet made her debut performing in ]operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...
s on Televisión Pública Argentina's Channel 7. She was the replacement actress for Rosita Quintana
Rosita Quintana (16 July 1925 – 23 August 2021) was an Argentine-Mexican actress, singer and songwriter. She was one of the top leading ladies of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She starred in Luis Buñuel's '' Susana'' (1951) and musical fi ...
in a production ''My Fair Lady
''My Fair Lady'' is a musical theatre, musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' and on the Pygmalion (1938 film), 1938 film ...
'', performing so well in one day that the audience cheered for her and indefinitely replaced Quintana. Bonnet would also play in TV musical comedies such as ''La dama del Maxim's'', ''Descalzos en el parque'', and ''Mame''.
Filmography
References
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1930 births
2020 deaths
Argentine film actresses
Argentine stage actresses
Argentine television actresses
Argentine vedettes
Argentine people of English descent
Argentine people of German descent
People from Gualeguay Department