Chihuahua, Chih.- With arid but fertile soil to make the talents of natives and adoptees flourish, Ciudad Juárez was the home of Parralense actress Mariana Estrada, who emigrated to the country’s capital eight years ago to make her dreams come true.
Being an actress in the full sense of the word is the motivation that drives the 32-year-old artist and for this she has prepared herself both in the chair and in practice, in television forums and various scenarios.
After graduating from Televisa’s Centro de Educación Artística (CEA), Mariana became involved in various television productions, including ‘La Doña’, where she shared credits with Aracely Arámbula, David Chocarro and Danna Paola.
He also had a role in the bioseries ‘Blue Demon’, starring Tenoch Huerta and Ana Brenda Contreras.
TALENT ON SCENE
Mariana was born in the historic Parral, Chihuahua, lived in Mérida and later arrived in Ciudad Juárez, where she studied at El Chamizal High School and a degree in Nutrition at the UACJ.
However, artistic restlessness was already planted and had to be let out. So it was that she traveled to Mexico City to audition at CEA, where she obtained a scholarship.
“Nine years ago I went to do a casting to enter the CEA, I left in January 2014 and started an intensive one-year course. When I graduated I started working on all of Televisa’s 2015 productions. The first was ‘Love from the neighborhood’ and then ‘Don’t you leave me’ and ‘Before dead than Lichita’. On Telemundo I was on ‘El señor de los cielos’, recounts Mariana Estrada.
He clarifies that in those soap operas he had sporadic participation, but that in 2016 he managed to embody one of the characters in ‘Tres veces Ana’, a new version of ‘Lazos de amor’.
“From then on I dedicated myself professionally to television, until 2018 when I did my first play, which was ‘La última llamada’ with Alejandro de Marino and deaf actors from the company Seña y Verbo. There I had the opportunity to learn not so much the language, but some things to communicate. It was a very enriching experience.”
Her work on television continued with appearances in the series ‘Preso No. 1’, ‘Señora Acero’ and ‘Blue Demon’, but the desire to continue preparing made her look for other ways to polish her interpretation.
“In 2020 I joined Casazul because I wanted to have a full three-year career. The teachers there are totally active people who, in addition to teaching classes, have their theater projects. In that period I could not work because I had to dedicate myself to school. I set it as a goal, I knew I was going to take a break from work but I knew it would be growth for me, professionally and personally”.
This summer Mariana did a theater season with an original piece from her collective entitled ‘La obra negra’ and she just finished a series of performances of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, an adaptation that Aldo Martínez made to the comedy by William Shakespeare, under the joint direction of Ricardo Rodríguez and Patricia Soto.
Once the scene has been delivered, Mariana plans to continue doing theater and participate with the collective, self-managing her own projects.
I’m going to continue doing castings for whatever, series, movies, television and I want to continue doing theater, it gives you a lot of experience and it’s something I want to do” ME
