Nevertheless, Mayra only needed two films to create a perennial image of femme fatale inside Venezuelan cinema. She also appeared in sympathetic parts in Bienvenida Esperanza (1983), Marta y Javier (1983) and La Mujer Prohibida (1991). Mayra next appeared in another hit, Luisana Mia (1981), but she is best remembered for her strong performance in Leonela (1983), where she played the role of a rape victim falling in love with her rapist.
Later, the young actress excelled in La hija de Juana Crespo (1977), an effective drama from Salvador Garmendia and José Ignacio Cabrujas. Then, her first starring role was in Angélica (1976), where she played a character created especially designed for her by her mother Ligia Lezama.
Her technique was spontaneous and effective, but her acting genius and rhetoric relied on her expressive eyes and the graceful stylings of her hands.Īfter attending high school, Mayra made her debut in the Radio Caracas Television telenovela Valentina (1975). Her fits of tears or temperament were short and sweet, and it underscored the projected inner strength of her characters that proved a pictorial sense of feminism. Career įor most of her career, a Mayra character coped with the unfortunate turn of events that were inevitable in TV melodramas and movies by conveying a tense or worried expression. She was raised in a home of artists and was for sure bound to have some of the same passions. She was the daughter of Charles Barry (born Carlos Alberto Rodríguez González), was a humourist and founding member of the long-standing Radio Rochela comedy show, while her mother, Ligia Lezama, was a teleplay writer and also an able actress. Mayra Alejandra Rodríguez Lezama was born on in Caracas, Venezuela.
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