▷ Biography of Luces Velásquez ◁ Bertha de Betty la fea, age, daughter, husband

Who is Luces Velasquez?

Luces Velásquez Toro better known only as  Luces Velásquez is a famous Colombian actress who became world famous after playing Bertha in the novel “Ugly Betty”. The actress Luces Velásquez was born on October 3, 1955 in Medellín Colombia and currently continues to have a successful acting career participating in soap operas and series such as “Café con aroma de mujer, Pa’ quererte, Loquito por ti, Sin senos sí hay paraíso” , among others. 

Biography of Luces Velasquez

Beginnings in the life of Luces Velásquez

Luces Velásquez is undoubtedly one of the most important actresses on Colombian television and with the greatest international projection thanks to her participation in “Ugly Betty”, an actress who, with her talent, charisma, and professionalism, has played an endless number of characters with whom that he has managed to conquer the hearts of all the people who have ever seen any of the soap operas and series in which he has participated.

From a very young age, the now famous actress Luces Velásquez knew that she wanted to dedicate herself to acting because when she watched television she imagined herself playing characters and impersonating people other than her, so when the time came to decide What was she going to do Luces Velásquez did not hesitate and chose to be an actress.

The first job and what is considered the acting debut of Luces Velásquez was in the melodrama “Los dueños del poder” in 1986 and from that moment the actress began to have relevance in the acting world as she was demonstrating that she had everything to be considered one of the best actresses in all of Colombia.

Trajectory and history of Luces Velásquez

Throughout her great acting career, the now famous Luces Velásquez has participated in a large number of soap operas and movies in which she has shown that she really has great quality to give all her characters great realism, some of the projects in which that he has sponsored have been “Gallito Ramírez, The sins of Inés de Hinojosa, The house of the two palms, In someone else’s body, The curse of paradise, Victorio, The spring, The widow in white, Francisco the mathematician “, among many more .

Bertha the great professional success of Luces Velásquez in Betty la Fea

Although Luces Velásquez had already tasted the honey of success with several melodramas in which the soap opera that would catapult her and the entire cast would undoubtedly have appeared would be “Ugly Betty” in which Luces Velásquez played Bertha Muñoz de González , a one of the secretaries of the “Ugly Barracks” and that she was one of the most beloved because of her great story in which, although she was a gossip, she was very loved by everyone, also at first her character used to eat a lot but later and because of her salud begins a diet although she cannot stop eating because she realizes that she is pregnant.

At this time, the actress was filming the novel “I am Betty, the Ugly”  and although she was absent from the novel to give birth, the producer Fernando Gaitán asked the actress that her daughter be part of the plot and that was how the real daughter of Luces Velásquez would be the supposed daughter of Bertha in the novel.

Ugly Betty, in which the actress Luces Velásquez participated in the role of Bertha , became an impressive success in her native Colombia and only a few months later the soap opera began to be broadcast in different parts of the world, becoming the most successful telenovela worldwide and that even in the current years it continues to be broadcast, being Netflix the streaming service company that decided to put it in its catalog and managing to be at the top of the most viewed for months and months in a row, in China, its chapter premiere was seen by 73 million people, among many more.

Luces Velásquez participated in Ugly Betty playing Bertha , this melodrama over the years has achieved unthinkable great successes, such as; the soap opera won the Guinness Record in 2010 after being broadcast in more than 180 countries, dubbed into 25 languages ​​and having at least 28 adaptations around the world. Although they later made the second part of “Ugly Betty” called Accommodates , it was a resounding failure and a few months later it was cancelled.

Without a doubt , Luces Velásquez managed to establish himself as one of the best actors on Colombian television, not only because of his great passion for his work, but also because of his dedication and great acting ability, which is why he also began to try his luck in series, some of the most notable. They were “Without boobs there is no paradise, The daughter of the mariachi, The crowned goddess, The graduates, Search block, Loquito por ti, Más allá del tiempo, El man es Germán, Pa quererte” , among many more.

After being away from the soap operas Luces Velásquez in 2021, she was the protagonist of the soap opera Café con aroma de mujer, where she will be in charge of the interpretation of the character of Julia Cortéz de Vallejo and shared credits with other stars such as; Carmen Villalobos ,  Laura Londoño , Lincoln Palomeque , Laura Archbold , Diego Cadavid , among others.

Curiously , “Café con aroma de mujer” was a resounding failure for Telemundo as it achieved extremely low audience levels compared to other melodramas and programs that were on the air at that time on the same channel, however in 2022 the story premiered on “Netflix ” Something completely opposite is happening, because in just a matter of days it became the most watched series on the entire platform, achieving great success and reaching No. 1 of the most watched series in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States. This undoubtedly showed that the new streaming platforms were much more viewed than conventional television.

Children and husband of Luces Velásquez 

The life of the actress Luces Velásquez has been full of great professional successes, however, at the same time, the actress has also suffered great misfortunes in her life, such as the loss of her children who died.

Luces Velásquez lost her first child when she suffered a heart problem and died a month after she was born. At that time, she lived in Brazil with her husband and together they faced that great moment full of sadness.

Life gave her a second chance and Luces Velásquez became pregnant again while she was still in Brazil, but during her pregnancy she had other complications, which meant that her son could not be born and she would also end up losing him in the eighth month of pregnancy.

Only a few months later Luces Velásquez would become pregnant again now for the third time but again she had problems and with only two months of pregnancy she aborted her little baby ; but her life would give her one more chance and that’s how her daughter Oriana was born. Although she was the fourth daughter she had, only she was able to complete her months of gestation and be born.

In the middle of 2022, the actress said she was tremendously happy for the family she had made with her daughter Oriana and her husband Jaime Lozada and although they had already been together for many years, their love was still stronger than ever before.

Velasquez Lights Pack

Although on social networks and the internet people search a lot for the Luces Velásquez pack or photos in which they can be seen scantily clad or in sensual poses, the truth is that currently there is no Luces Velásquez pack other than those photos. that the artist has published on his own networks and that could be considered sexy.

How much is the fortune of Luces Velásquez?

This is one of the questions that people ask the most about Luces Velásquez and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Luces Velásquez within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent they have and what they have done that he is among the great figures of the international show business.

Without a doubt, the career of this great star Luces Velásquez will continue to rise and we will be attentive to everything that happens around him, so we invite you to stay on our page for the next updates that we will have in life, career, history and biography of Luces Velásquez.