Sonia Viveros

Chilean actress (1949–2003)

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Sonia Viveros (2 September 1949 – 22 September 2003) was one of the most important actresses on Chilean television. She was born in Santiago, Chile and died in La Serena. She distinguished herself with roles in the telenovelas La Madrastra, La Torre 10 and Marta a las Ocho.

## Education and career

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Viveros debuted in soap opera at age 17, becoming the youngest, most popular and talented actress of the time. At 9 she began working in radio and three years later on television.

Although she received no formal education in drama school, her innate talent and professionalism led her to acting on television. Her first TV series was El Litre 4916 (1967), in which she played the role of Carmencha.

She played a variety of roles in which her beauty, versatility and interpretive strength were her most noted highlights on Chilean screens, becoming well known and loved by the audience. Fame and recognition came in 1981 with the TV series La Madrastra (telenovela, 1981). She also participated in other television series like La represa and the comedy Juani en Sociedad.

Her role as villain in the TV series La Torre 10 as Telma Bernard is one of her most memorable performances.

Her role as the beautiful and proud Leonor Encina in the series Martín Rivas with Alejandro Cohen is perhaps one of her best performances for the cameras. Sonia Viveros along with this actor formed a highly ranked television couple.

## Personal life and death

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Sonia married three times and they were of a short duration. One of her spouses was the producer Óscar Rodríguez. None of her marriages produced children (she was pregnant fourteen times) as she suffered from spontaneous abortion. She decided to adopt two children: Camilo José Tomás and Javiera Esperanza on whom she poured all the attention she could give.

Her last marriage was to Professor Leopoldo Segovia, from La Serena whom she met while filming the TV series called Borrón y Cuenta Nueva (Clean Slate) and she settled in La Serena.

In 1985 she was diagnosed with lupus, a degenerative disease of the immune system which in her case seriously affected her cerebral vessels. Her older sister had died of a brain tumor, so it was not as a result of family history.

## Filmography

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TV Series

Year  | TV Series  | Role  | Channel
1967  | El litre 4916 | Carmencha  | Canal 13
Juani en sociedad | Juani Möller McKay  | Canal 13
1972  | O'Higgins | Rosario Puga  | Canal 13
1975  | J.J. Juez | Javiera  | Canal 13
1978  | The Voyage of Charles Darwin |  | BBC
1979  | Martín Rivas | Leonor Encina  | TVN
1981  | La Madrastra | Claudia Molina  | Canal 13
1982  | La Señora | Nélida  | Canal 13
Alguien por quien vivir | Ana Filippi  | Canal 13
1983  | La noche del cobarde | Sol  | Canal 13
1984  | La Represa | Silvia Espinoza  | TVN
La Torre 10 | Thelma Bernard  | TVN
1985  | Marta a las Ocho | Marta Mendez  | TVN
1986  | La Villa | Julia Alcantara  | TVN
1987  | Mi nombre es Lara | Alicia Padilla  | TVN
1988  | Las dos caras del amor | Paulina  | TVN
Bellas y Audaces | Milena Cabral Blanche  | TVN
1991  | Villa Nápoli | Matilde  | Canal 13
1992  | Trampas y caretas | Sofía Ortiz  | TVN
1993  | Ámame | Loreto Castellot  | TVN
1994  | Top Secret | Olga Mena  | Canal 13
1995  | El amor está de moda | Ruth  | Canal 13
Amor a domicilio | Adriana Acevedo  | Canal 13
1996  | Loca piel | Trinidad Yávar  | TVN
1997  | Santiago City | Beatriz Aldana  | Mega
1998  | Borrón y cuenta nueva | Rosa De Goyeneche  | TVN

### Series

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* Más que amigos (Canal 13 - 2002) as Gabriela.

### Television appearances

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* De Pe a Pa (2003)
* Sonia Viveros with Alejandro Cohen in La Represa (1984).

## External links

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* Sonia Viveros on TVN
* Terminó la agonía de Sonia Viveros (Sonia Viveros agony has ended)
* Sonia Viveros con muerte cerebral (Sonia Viveros with brain death)
* Galería El Recuerdo a Sonia Viveros (El Recuerdo Gallery in memory of Sonia Viveros)
* Sonia Viveros quiere vivir (Sonia Viveros wants to live)[permanent dead link]
* Sonia Viveros: Su lucha por la vida (Sonia Viveros: Her fight for life)
* Hechos 2003: Grandes Pérdidas (Great losses)