Chari Gómez Miranda

Chari Gómez Miranda
Born
Rosario Gómez Miranda

1930 (1930)
Spain
Died (aged 80)
Madrid, Spain
Other namesDoña Adelaida
Occupation(s)Journalist, television presenter
SpousePedro Rodríguez García
Children
AwardsAndalucía Journalism Award

Rosario Gómez Miranda (1930 – 22 February 2011), known as Chari Gómez Miranda, was a Spanish journalist and television presenter famous for her character "Doña Adelaida".

Biography

Chari Gómez Miranda's career began in radio. In 1978, she participated in the program A ciento veinte that was presented every Saturday morning by Eduardo Sotillos on Radio Nacional de España.

Her popularity came with television, in 1990, when she was signed by Jesús Hermida to make a brief summary and commentary about the Venezuelan telenovela Cristal, which was broadcast daily on the show A mi manera [es]. Under the pseudonym of "Doña Adelaida" and with ease and self-confidence before the cameras, Gómez Miranda won the sympathies of the public by embodying a character who professed to make an endearing semblance of the archetype of maruja, or housewife.[1]

After the end of Cristal and the Hermida program, "Doña Adelaida" continued presenting other telenovelas on Televisión Española.

Except for a brief interval, in which Gómez Miranda presented the youth show Vaya fauna (1992) on Antena 3,[2] her later career was closely linked to María Teresa Campos, with whom she worked on the Telecinco show Día a día [es], until its cancellation in 2004.[3] She also made a venture into theater and in 1998 took part in the play Dos mujeres a las nueve by Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena.[4]

Widowed in 1984 by journalist Pedro Rodríguez (1935–1984),[5] she was the mother of television presenter Belén Rodríguez and Pedro Rodríguez Gómez [es], general director of Cuarzo Producciones [es].[1][6]

From 1996 to 1999, she appeared in the series El súper. Historias de todos los días [es] on Telecinco, playing the role of "Doña Úrsula", the kleptomaniac customer and gossip of the supermarket.

In 2001, she received the Andalucía Journalism Award for her television work.[1]

Chari Gómez Miranda died in Madrid on 22 February 2011 after a long illness.[1][3][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Doña Adelaida, la primera 'maruja' de televisión" [Doña Adelaida, the first 'maruja' of Television]. ABC (in Spanish). 24 February 2011. p. 65. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ Albert, Antonio (1 February 1993). "Vaya fauna". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Ha fallecido Chari Gómez, la 'Doña Adelaida' de los culebrones de los 90" [Chari Gómez, the 'Doña Adelaida' of the Telenovelas, Has Died]. El Mundo (in Spanish). EFE. 22 February 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. ^ "'Dos mujeres a las nueve' cumble con éxito cien representaciones" ['Dos mujeres a las nueve' Successfully Completes 100 Showings]. ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. 26 March 1998. p. 127. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  5. ^ "El periodista Pedro Rodríguez, muerto de un infarto a los 49 años" [The Journalist Pedro Rodríguez, Dead of a Heart Attack at Age 49]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. 16 December 1984. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Pedro Rodríguez, productor televisivo" [Pedro Rodríguez, Television Producer]. El País (in Spanish). 7 July 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Muere Chari Gómez Miranda 'Doña Adelaida'" ['Doña Adelaida' Chari Gómez Miranda Dies]. La Razón (in Spanish). 23 February 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2017.