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Carmen Yazalde

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Carmen Yazalde
Born
María do Carmo Ressurreição de Deus

(1950-05-29) 29 May 1950 (age 74)
Guarda, Portugal
Other names
  • Britt Nichols
  • Britt Nickols
  • Carmizè
Citizenship
  • Portuguese
  • Argentine
Occupations
  • Model
  • actress
Spouse
(m. 1973; died 1997)
Children1

Carmen Yazalde (born 29 May 1950) whose birth name is Maria do Carmo Ressurreição de Deus,[1] is a Portuguese Argentine model and actress, who had a career both in her native country and in Argentina.

Biography

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Yazalde grew up in a poor family of eight children, many of whom died in infancy. She took her first steps into show business as a folk dancer. At the age of 17, she was discovered by Vasco Morgado, owner of five theaters, making her debut at the Teatro Monumental.[1]

Yazalde was Miss Fotogenia Portugal.1 She also had a brief career as an actress in exploitation films directed by Jess Franco, using the name Britt Nichols.[1][2] She married Héctor Yazalde,[1] an Argentine footballer who played for Independiente and Sporting Clube de Portugal. When he left European football, Yazalde settled permanently in Argentina in 1977, where she embarked on a career as a model, adopting the name Carmen Yazalde.[3] She worked with other companions of the time such as Teté Coustarot, Patricia Miccio, Anamá Ferreyra, Teresa Calandra, Adriana Costantini and Mora Furtado.[4]

In the 1980s, Yazalde made advertisements, such as the Mendinet edible products together with the journalist Juan Carlos Pérez Loizeau. In 1984, she participated in a cameo in the comedy Los reyes del sablazo, starring Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, Luisa Albinoni and Susana Traverso.[5] In 1999, she participated in Todo por dos pesos, in a sketch playing Cigarette Jenga. In 2004 she hosted her beauty show Salud y belleza. In 2009 and 2012, she participated in the program Caiga Quien Caiga (CQC).[6]

Personal life

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Carmen and Héctor Yazalde had one son, Gonzalo.[7] After Héctor's death, Carmen has remained an occasional fixture in Argentine television and tabloid news.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Carmen. "Nunca me separei e ainda hoje sou Yazalde"". Observador.pt (in Portuguese). 25 August 2017.
  2. ^ Imágenes en carmize[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Debíamos ser discretas". La Voz.com.ar (in Spanish). 22 November 2009.
  4. ^ "Con 53 años, Carmen Yazalde sigue desfilando como a los 20".
  5. ^ "Carmen Yazalde - Filmografía, Biografía, Fotos | cinenacional.com". cinenacional.com. 4 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Carmen Yazalde". IMDb.
  7. ^ ""Yazalde amava o Sporting"" [Yazalde loved Sporting]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 18 June 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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