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3 unusual facts about Thelma Biral


Thelma Biral

Biral led a local 1997 production of Michael Christopher's play, The Lady and the Clarinet, and more recently, Werner Schwab's The Presidents and Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, among numerous other plays and television appearances.

She was given a Press Prize for the role; but, for years afterwards, she limited her performances to the theatre, where she earned plaudits for protagonizing James Sparks' Sparks, Bernard Slade's Soufflé and, from 1991 to 1996, Sebastián Moncada's Brujas (Witches).

The institution's director, Margarita Xirgu, allowed the young talent to claim she was 18 - the prerequisite for admission.



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