Aida Pierce

Aida María Zerecero Pierce (born August 15, 1956, Acapulco, Guerrero) is a Mexican actress and comedian, best known internationally for her work on various telenovelas and comedy series that have aired on Televisa over the years. Most of her television series have aired on television networks in other countries, most notably Univision. At 17, Pierce, whose parents were Jose Luis Zerecero and Aida Pierce, left Acapulco for Mexico City, and attended El Instituto Andrés Soler, where she studied acting and to become a secretary. She also attended la Academia de Emma Pulido, where she studied jazz, English, and French. She began her career on stage, appearing in the Mexican productions of Godspell, Peter Pan, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Mame, among other plays. Her experience on stage led to a contract with Televisa. She was first cast as Doña Tecla on Alegrías de Mediodía in 1981. Later that year she joined the cast of La matraca, which lasted one year, and as a recurring cast member of La Carabina de Ambrosio, where she remained until 1984. Her next television series was Salón de belleza, which premiered in 1985, the same year she made her film debut in Los rockeros del barrio.

In 1986, she joined the cast of Cosas de casados. That same year, while videotaping that series at Televisa's Chapultepec studios, she was taping El hospital de la risa, which premiered that same year, at Televisa San Angel. On the former series, she portrayed a newlywed wife, and on the latter she portrayed "Remedios". Her next series, Y sin embargo...se mueve, did not premiere until 1994. She made four additional movies. During the filming of one, El Rey de los Taxistas (1989) with Luis de Alba and Maribel Guardia,