the popular actress Soledad Silveyra, is a symbol of the show in the country. From a very young age, she had to dedicate herself to working due to economic needs and made her TV debut at the age of 12, where she starred in soap operas such as “Rolando Rivas, taxi driver”, “Pobre diabla”, “Vidas robadas” or “Secretos de amor”. In 1998, she did it as a host in the Utilísima cycle that Channel 13 broadcast, then “Big Brother” would come, and later “A Time Later”, the program where events in Argentine history were investigated and in which she had an exclusive interview. with former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In addition, she was a jury member of the “Dancing for a dream”.
During his time in the cinema, he also found success alongside popular figures such as Luis Sandrini, Palito Ortega and Sandro, as well as being the remembered object of desire of a hired killer in “Last Days of the Victim”, along with Federico Luppi. In theater, a medium in which he confesses to feeling like a fish in water, he had praised works in works such as “Taste of honey”, “La malasangre”, “The elephant man”, “Lost in Yonkers”, “The visions of Simone Machard “, among other.
Now, he celebrates 59 years of an extensive and fruitful artistic career with “Star Pasta”, the comedy that premiered at Paseo La Plaza. There she plays a legendary soap opera actress who finds refuge behind the counter of a business in Barracas and to do so she had to learn to knead tortellini.
Warm, sensitive, affectionate and cordial, she receives NOTICIAS in her apartment in Recoleta, decorated with excellent good taste.
News: Did you debut when you were very young?
Silveyra: At the age of 12 in television and at 14 in theater, I did “The boys also sin”, with Darío Vittori and directed by Nino Fortuna Olazábal. I will never forget Dario’s generous gesture. My mother was ill, I had a very complicated childhood. I had no chance to rent anything in Mar del Plata and he took me to live in his house and I shared a room with his daughters. The people who help you in difficult times are not forgotten.
News: How did acting come into your life?
Silveyra: Thanks to the actor Zelmar Gueñol (member of the remembered group the Big Five of Good Humor along with Juan Carlos Cambón, Guillermo Rico, Jorge Luz, Rafael Carret). He would come home because he was a friend of the family and he would see me when I would put on hats and dress myself with things that he found in the closets. Locked in the bathroom, I was like a kind of Pinky, with her capelines, because I always liked to see her enter Talcahuano 638, where I grew up, and I imagined that when I grew up, I wanted to be like her.
News: You played a lot with your little brother.
Silveyra: Without realizing it, I was like a kind of Antigone because I would take my brother out of the bathtub, put him in another position. Poor thing, my life of God. He was nine years younger and was like a doll to me. As a baby I already grabbed it and used it in my dramatizations (laughs).
News: What attracted you to that world?
Silveyra: There wasn’t a mango at home. It was a middle-class family that had sold the vases, the Persian rugs, everything. Mom’s second husband dies suddenly and we are left on the street. Zelmar asked me: “Why don’t you go try out as an actress?” I responded with a very contemporary word: “No, that’s a cache.” Fifty-nine years ago, being an actress was synonymous with prostitution. It was not well seen at all. But he took me to the channel, I gave it a try and started working on a soap opera that was being made at Teleonce on Calle Pavón with Tana Rinaldi, María Aurelia Bisutti and Rodolfo Salerno.
News: Would the burst of popularity come later?
Silveyra: Clear. Imagine that at the age of 15 I was able to buy furniture again and put the house back together. I filmed with Palito Ortega “A boy like me”, with Sandro “I want to fill myself with you” and “Gitano”, which were tremendous successes with the public. There I met Jaramillo (José María, his ex-husband with whom he had his children Baltazar and Facundo) who saw me on set and I was dying of shame.
News: And “Rolando Rivas, taxi driver” arrived with 40 rating points.
Silveyra: At 19 I did “Así en la villa como en el cielo”, by Abel Santa Cruz with Guillermo Bredeston and Gabriela Gili, where Claudio (García Satur) played a character named Sabino. Channel 13 and I suppose Alberto (Migré), decide to put him as the protagonist of a new soap opera. Alberto didn’t want me for the role, he wanted Nora Cárpena. But since the previous one had done so well in ratings, the channel asked me and saved me. I was able to achieve that success that, beyond everything I learned, left me with the fact that humility is the best path. That you never have to believe it, that in this profession you start anew every day. I remember that we arrived in Córdoba and all the tacheros welcomed us with Argentine flags. We were Eva Perón and the General waving. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I told myself: “Solely don’t believe this because it won’t always be like that”. There I realized what the work of humility is for the actor. The ego is a great enemy and you have to have it in its necessary measure.
News: Success is temporary.
Silveyra: All the actors have had a bad time and we even had to borrow money at some point. But, thank God, in so many years in the profession, I didn’t have many malarias.
News: What was it like working with Migré?
Silveyra: Marvelous. He lived in control, he played the music, he corrected the lyrics a lot, he was very picky, demanding, we recorded many hours a day, we left our souls. I remember that a big discussion was because Alberto wanted the character of Mónica Helguera Paz, a “package” girl who lived in Barrio Parque, to have a camellia on her dress; an antique. I was a girl who changed social sectors, I explained to her that the “good” girls also wore jeans and a T-shirt. I think I won it over because the camellia never appeared (laughs).
News: Was he only in the first season?
Silveyra: I was newly married and my first child had already been born. The attraction of that couple was such that everyone was talking about the kisses and I decided to run away. I was very much in love with Jaramillo. Then would come “Pobre diabla”, directed by Alejandro Doria and my great encounter with Zorrilla (China). With her direction, the award would come with “Lost in Yonkers”, by Neil Simon.
News: What memories do you have of China?
Silveyra: For me she was a reference, a mother, an older sister, a great friend. Once we both coincided doing theater in Venezuela and she calls me to tell me: “Sole, there is an exhibition of Berni at the Teresa Carreño. She picked you up and let’s go m’hija” (imitates Zorrilla’s way of speaking). We arrived, she began to take photos of her until a man told her that she couldn’t and she explained that we were actresses from the River Plate, well known to her and that he took her to speak with the director of the museum. On the way I see that there was a documentary about Dior that interested me and China convinced this man to show us the filming, just the two of us, in a huge room. It starts and China fell asleep, she started snoring and I nudged her (laughs). She was magical.
News: Do you look for work when you have it?
Silveyra: Yes, just in case. When the play is over I would like to do something that I can put in a suitcase and travel the country, be a federal actress.
News: Do you enjoy your grandchildren?
Silveyra: Clear! Clarita, one of the five I have, who studies theater with Cris Morena, wants to spend 15 years in Greece and I ask her: “Do you think your grandmother is Susana Giménez?” (laughs).
News: I propose an exercise. Suppose the doorbell rings and you don’t expect anyone. Who would you like to come from the past?
Silveyra: My grandmother Soledad (gets excited). I wish I could hug her. She never got sick until she was 93 years old. Raised me. If it hadn’t been for her I don’t know where I would be. I wish I could ask you so many questions. Above all, from my mother who committed suicide at the age of 50 after many attempts… (she thinks) she would also ask him to pass me the recipe for the meat to the bird that I never ate again (laughs).
