Mariella Trejos: from “Simply María” to “Al fondo hay sito”, she left her mark on TV

He left Colombia in search of opportunities and found them in Peru. Mariella Trejos He has been present in various periods of Peruvian television, to the point that even centennials have necessarily been exposed to his work. He passed away last Sunday at the age of 75 without a job, without a family, without a pension. Without the ability to fend for herself, she was taken to a municipal asylum, her last resting place.

Even in the highly replicated interview that D-Day did in 2016, you can see what kind of person he was. Gestures at all times, a voice that seemed to be projected onto a stage that did not exist. She had a “very special” character, says actor Carlos Rubin, who welcomed her for three years of sheer generosity. “There are a lot of people who love her and there are people who hate her,” he tells us over the phone.

He was in “Simply Maria” (1969-1971), the most successful Peruvian telenovela in history, seen throughout the continent, where he had one of the leading roles alongside Saby Kamalich, Braulio Castillo, Ricardo Blume and Elvira Travesí, all of them already deceased. “(I) was Teresa, another employee, María’s best friend. She was called for another soap opera, when they gave me the script. (…) In the newspapers they said that when I went out [la novela] It was ‘Simply Teresa’”, the actress said in 2014, in an interview with El Comercio.

Later, the actress appeared in “Carmín” (1985-1987), a telenovela produced by Lucho Llosa in which Patricia Pereyra, Lourdes Berninzon and Roberto Moll also participated. Around those times she also followed another of her passions, the theater, with “The prostitutes will precede you in the kingdom of heaven” at the now non-existent Royal Theater (and which years later returned to the Alliance Francaise theater). This is how she described her performance in this Diary of hers: “La Trejos composes the character of the prostitute in the play, admirably. A character who puts her to the test everything she knows about her theatrical profession. Helped by the direction of Carlos Tolentino, she does not carry out her work just trying to interpret the text, but to live it in all its nuances. Like a concert pianist, she goes through all the possible variants of her professional keyboard in such a way that what could be bored by her monotony becomes a symphonic piece”.

In the 90s he was in another telenovela, the youthful “Torbellino” (2017), and in the following decade, in the comedies “Así es la vida” (2004) and “Al fondo hay sitio” (2009-present). , the latter being where she played Mary Jane Smith, Tito’s mother. Her passage through the series was immortalized with her entering the Gonzáles’ house, with a curly blonde wig, and dark glasses. The look that Doña Nelly (Irma Maury) gives her, accompanied by a horizontal grimace, almost a straight line formed by her lips, says everything there is to know about the effect that her character caused.

Possibly one of her last artistic works has been “Lorca en el corazón” (2014), a theater and music proposal where she connected with the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, whose work played a role in influencing her to follow a life in the world of the arts. Emilio Montero, who directed her in her production, described her as a woman with a “strong character” who, until the end of her days, kept her dreams of continuing to do something else, without considering the physical limitations imposed by her age. she. He told her.

“But I am a 20-year-old girl,” she responded candidly. And so she left.