Marjorie de Sousa

At age 12, de Sousa began her career doing television commercials and working as a model.^[3][1] In 1999, she entered the beauty pageant Miss Venezuela in the hands of the famous Venezuelan designer Giovanni Scutaro.^[1][3] A year later, she worked on her first telenovela, Amantes de luna llena,^[1] which was produced and broadcast by the television channel Venevisión.^[1] In 2001, she co-starred in the hit telenovela Guerra de mujeres, with the character Carolina, one of the most popular in the plot.^[3]

In 2002, de Sousa left Venezuela to work on the telenovela Gata salvaje, a co-production of Venevisión and the Spanish-American channel Univision.^[4] In this internationally acclaimed novel, she plays Camelia Valente, an antagonist in which she has perhaps been one of her best characters, achieving her international projection.^[4][5] Next, she worked on another successful Univision telenovela called Rebeca, where she had the character of Gisela,^[6] another role where she acted as an antagonist. At the end of that production, de Sousa went to work on the Mexican telenovela Mariana de la noche, produced by Televisa; there her character had the name of Carol, also as an antagonist.^[5]

In 2005, she starred in the telenovela Ser bonita no basta of the TV network RCTV.^[7] A year later she returned to star in another telenovela of RCTV,^[7] Y los declaro marido y mujer, a beach production set in Venezuela's Margarita Island.^[7] In 2008, de Sousa began to work in the cast of the telenovela Amor comprado,^[1] produced by Venevisión; with a character as villain of the plot called Margot.^[1] She also participated in the films Soltera y sin compromiso (2006) and Duelos de pasarelas (2008).^[1]

In 2010, de Sousa becomes the antagonist of the telenovela Pecadora next to Eduardo Capetillo and Litzy where she began to have skills as a singer interpreting the theme of her character and the protagonist.^[6] In 2011, she appeared in the telenovela Sacrificio de mujer, alongside Luis José Santander and its directed by Adriana Barraza.^[8] That same year she starred in the video for the song "Poquito a Poquito" by Henry Santos, former member of American bachata group Aventura.^[9]

In 2012, she played an antagonist in a special participation in Corazón apasionado alongside Guy Ecker and Marlene Favela.^[10] de Sousa made her theatrical debut at Toc Toc, a world-renowned work, and received the best critics of the industry after her unique and original interpretation of Lili.^[11] That year she also received the Miami Life Award in Best Female Protagonist category for her extraordinary performance as Clemencia in Sacrificio de mujer.^[12] In the same year, de Sousa returned to Televisa as an antagonist in the telenovela Amores verdaderos produced by Nicandro Díaz González.^[13] Due to the success of her character in the telenovela, she won the prize as Best Antagonist in a telenovela at the Premios TVyNovelas.^[14] In 2013, she joined the cast of the play Perfume de Gardenia, produced by Omar Suárez.^[15] She also appeared in the fourth season of reality show ¡Mira quién baila!, being in third place.^[16]

In 2014, de Sousa got her first lead on Televisa, in the telenovela Hasta el fin del mundo,^[17] first paired with Pedro Fernández,^[18] who left the project due to supposed problems with de Sousa,^[18] and David Zepeda took the place of Fernández.^[19] After Hasta el fin del mundo, she participated in 2016 in Juan Osorio's telenovela, Sueño de amor, in which only as a guest star appeared.^[20] In 2017, she signed an exclusive contract with the Spanish-language television network Telemundo.^[21] The network began filming the telenovela Al otro lado del muro, alongside Litzy that debut on 21 February 2018.^[22] In October 2020, de Sousa Participated on the Reality Show of the Spanish Version of Masked Singer, ¿Quién es la máscara? in the 2nd Season as a Banana, and was eliminated on the 2nd Episode.^[23]

de Sousa married Venezuelan actor Ricardo Álamo in 2004 and divorced him in 2006.^[24] In 2016, she had a romantic relationship with Argentine-born Puerto Rican actor Julián Gil, with whom she had her first son Matías Gregorio Gil de Sousa.^[25][26] The relationship between de Sousa and Gil ended unamicably in 2017 ^[27]