Magdyel Ugaz
Magdyel Olibama Ugaz del Castillo es una actriz y presentadora de televisión peruana. Among her several works, she is best known for her starring role as Teresa Collazos in the "Al Fondo Hay Sitio" television series. Career. At age thirteen, she entered a theater workshop at the National University of Engineering, presented by actor Reinaldo Arenas. Years later, after passing a casting, she joined the cast of "Mil Oficios". In 2004 she played the folk singer Dina Páucar in the bio-miniseries "Dina Páucar, the fight for a dream". That same year she joined the sitcom "Asi Es  La Vida" playing the role Milagros. In 2006 she starred in "Black Butterfly", directed by Francisco José Lombardi. For her participation in this film she won the Best Actress award at the International Iberoamerican Festival of Ceará. This film won the Glauber Rocha Award for the best Latin American film at the Montreal World Film Festival, and Best Peruvian Film at the Lima Film Festival. In addition, she was nominated as Best Foreign Film at the 22nd Goya Awards. Since 2009 she has made appearances appears in the television series "Al Fondo Hay Sitio" as "Teresita". In 2010 she participated  in the musical La Cage aux Folles, as Jacqueline, under the direction of Juan Carlos Fisher. At the beginning of 2012 she filmed in Buenos Aires the Peruvian-Italian-Argentinean film "Diamond Santoro and the Rope of the Dead". She debuted as a presenter in the third season of "Minute to Win it" in 2012 for América Televisión. Ugaz joined the jury of the Peruvian version of "Pequeños Gigantes". In theater, she participated in the comedy work "The Blackout". She acted in the movie The Vanished Elephant in 2014. Ugaz was a guest judge in 2016 for the dancing reality  show El Gran Show. On December 8, 2016, the "Guerrero" movie premiered, in which she played the role of Doña Peta, the mother of Paolo Guerrero, the top scorer of the Peru national football team with 28 goal. For this role she won Best Supporting Actress at the Premios Luces in 2016. She is currently working on the sitcom De Vuelta Al Barrio for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the Premios Luces 2020. Personal life. In 2011, Ugaz admitted that in her desire to lose weight, she suffered from anorexia and bulimia, also caused by the comments  of the press about her weight. In 2020 she had some of her eggs cryogenically frozen stating that she is not ready to be a mom since she hasn't found the right man yet, but wants to make sure when she does find the right partner it's not too late.