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Dago García, today Vice President of Production for the Caracol channel, met María Eugenia Parra when he was still studying at university.
“It was long before we both entered television. I was studying with a boyfriend of hers, Memo Olarte, both were theater workers, from the group led by Paco Barrera and Consuelo Moure, ”says García.
Over the years, they found themselves on television and, hand in hand with García’s librettos, Parra acted in Assumption and in The past does not forgive. “The latter had three protagonists: in addition to María Eugenia, Celmira Luzardo and Natalia Ramírez. Then they came The Panther Y A world for Julius”, He adds.
And it is that at the time (80s and 90s), María Eugenia Parra, the actress who died on November 24 in Bogotá, was one of the calls to star in Colombian productions, “because she had a very exotic beauty and an impressive voice” says Garcia, as well as great talent.
However, in the late 90s and early this century it disappeared from the screens. But as the same actress said in an interview in this newspaper in 2005, her ego got the better of her.
“In what she worked she was successful and was not prepared to take it on, she had gaps and seemed arrogant. I was on the defensive. I was conflictive. I had mixed feelings. I was not there and I had a personal crisis in front of my identity and my being. I thought that never in my life would I miss work. There was a time when I rejected three offers that they made me and that season arrived in which for a long time nobody remembered that I existed, “he said.
He added that he moved away from his family and tried to live in the United States, but, he said, “he was able to learn English for me” and decided to return. Around those days, he also started a spiritual path.
Very far from his Chiquinquirá, where he was born in 1962, when he returned to Colombia he went to live in Pereira and began to look for work again on television.
Although not stellar, Parra was able to return to productions such as Deception Y Niche, let’s do what the heart says.
On the street, those who recognized her continued to call her ‘La pantera’, the series she starred in, an adaptation for Colombia that Luis Felipe Salamanca and Dago García made for Caracol, in which she had as a couple with Jairo Camargo.
With this 1992 production, in which she represented Cristina Mendoza, a woman who seeks revenge on all those who hurt her, María Eugenia Parra was the cover of the magazines of the show of the moment, as well as being besieged by the media and the public . He also had a small character in the remembered series Staggered.
The actress said that although she liked acting from a very young age, when she left her native Chiquinquirá to live in Bogotá, she did so to study secretarial work in the Seine, but it was in that same entity that she discovered an acting course and decided to enroll.
His most recent character was in production Niche, let’s do what the heart says. He was also in LP Crazy passion, Lucerito, Only a woman, dove, Taboo (where did the antagonistic character) and Deception.
