Marjorie de Sousa

At age 12, De Sousa began her career doing television commercials and working as a model.[5][1] In 1999, she entered the beauty pageant Miss Venezuela in the hands of the famous Venezuelan designer Giovanni Scutaro.[1][5] A year later, she worked on her first telenovela, Amantes de luna llena,[1] which was produced and broadcast by the television channel Venevisión.[1] In 2001, she co-starred in the hit telenovela Guerra de mujeres, with the character Carolina, one of the most popular in the plot.[5] In 2002, De Sousa left Venezuela to work on the telenovela Gata Salvaje, a co-production of Venevisión and the Spanish-American channel Univision.[6] In this internationally acclaimed novel, she plays Camelia Valente, an antagonist in which she has perhaps been one of her best characters, achieving her international projection.[6][7] At the end of that production, De Sousa went to work on the Mexican telenovela Mariana de la Noche, produced by Televisa; there her character had the name of Carol, also as an antagonist.[7] Next, she worked on another successful Univision telenovela called Rebeca, where she had the character of Gisela,[8] another role where she acted as an antagonist. In 2005, she starred in the telenovela Ser bonita no basta of the TV channel Radio Caracas Televisión.[9] A year later she returned to star in another telenovela of RCTV,[9] Y los declaro marido y mujer, a beach production set in Venezuela's Margarita Island.[9] In 2007, De Sousa began to work in the cast of the telenovela Amor comprado,[1] produced by Venevisión; with a character as villain of the plot called Margot.[1] Two years later, she becomes the antagonist of the telenovela Pecadora next to Eduardo Capetillo and Litzy where she began to have skills as a singer interpreting the theme of her character and the protagonist.[8]

In 2010, De Sousa appeared in Sacrificio de mujer, alongside Luis José Santander and its directed by Adriana Barraza.[10] In 2011, she played an antagonist in a special participation in Corazón apasionado alongside Guy Ecker and Marlene Favela.[11] That same year she starred in the new video of the song "Poquito a Poquito" by Henry Santos, former member of the band Aventura.[12] In films, she participated in the films Duelos de pasarela y soltera and Sin compromiso.[1] In 2012, she made her theatrical debut at Toc Toc, a world-renowned work, and received the best critics of the industry after her unique and original interpretation of Lili.[13] That year she also received the Prize for Best Female Protagonist in the United States for her extraordinary performance of Clemencia Sacrificio de mujer.[14] It was that year, when De Sousa returned to Televisa under the hand of producer Nicandro Díaz González in the telenovela of Amores verdaderos as an antagonist of the story,[15] due to the success of her character in the telenovela, she won the prize as Best Antagonist in a telenovela at the TVyNovelas Awards.[16] In 2013, she joined the cast of the play Perfume de Gardenia, produced by Omar Suárez.[17] She also appeared in the fourth season of reality show ¡Mira quién baila!, being in third place.[18]

In 2014, De Sousa got her first lead on Televisa, in the telenovela Hasta el fin del mundo,[19] which where was first paired with Pedro Fernández,[20] but this one left the project due to supposed problems with De Sousa,[20] and David Zepeda took the place of Fernández.[21] After Hasta el fin del mundo, she participated in 2016 in Juan Osorio's telenovela, Sueño de amor, in which only as a guest star appeared.[22] After being absent from television for one year, in 2017 she signed an exclusive contract with the Spanish-language television network Telemundo.[23] The network began filming the telenovela Al otro lado del muro, alongside Litzy that debut on 21 February 2018.[24]