Biography

Adriana Beatriz Aguirre (born 16 December 1951) is an Argentine actress and vedette. She performed in several Argentine films and in more than 80 plays. Adriana Beatriz Aguirre was born in Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, on 16 December 1951. She studied theatre in the late 1960s.

Aguirre began working as a theatre actress in the early 1970s. In 1972, she made her cinema debut at the age of 21, in the film La sonrisa de mamá, where she had a supporting role. It was not until the 1976 film, Don Carmelo Il Capo, that she played a leading role, Lulu. During that decade, she made most of her films, which were generally in the comic genre. She had great success in El picnic de los Campanelli (1972), Siempre fuimos compañeros (1973), Rolando Rivas, taxista (1974), and Encuentros cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo (1978). The last film she performed in was Gran Valor en la Facultad de Medicina (1981), with Juan Carlos Calabró. In the following years, she returned to the theatre and it was then that she became a star, along with Graciela Alfano and Alejandra Pradón, among others. In 1995, she appeared on the television series, Como pan caliente. Between 2001 and 2003, there was a resurgence of her fame, when Aguirre was a recurring guest on television programs such as Rumores, Intrusos en el espectáculo, and ZapTV, where she starred in fights with other media personalities such as Guido Süller, Silvia Süller, and her own husband, Ricardo García. In 2007, Aguirre reappeared on television, being a guest on several programs such as Los Profesionales de Siempre and that of Susana Giménez. Aguirre also participated in the second edition of Cantando por un Sueño, starting in October of that year. On 15 April 2008, she was cast in Showmatch, a program hosted by Marcelo Tinelli, for part of the segment Bailando por un Sueño 2008; in the third week, she was eliminated by public vote. In June 2010, she guest starred in a skit in Susana Giménez's show, La empleada pública.

In 1998, Aguirre married Héctor Ricardo García, in a Greek-style ceremony, after three years of dating. In May 2005, Aguirre was assaulted and beaten in her apartment in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.