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Chelo Vivares

  • Spanish dubbing actress, voice of Allison Mack (in "Smallville"), Sara Ramirez (in "Grey's Anatomy"), different characters from "The Simpsons" (Ralph Wiggum, Itchy, Todd Flanders) or Amy Wong (Lauren Tom in "Futurama").
  • Best known to a whole generation of Spanish children as the pink porcupine Espinete in Barrio Sésamo (1979), which she played from 1983 to 1987. She has said she enjoyed the experience despite the costume being very uncomfortable and hot.
  • Played Curro, the official mascot of the 1992 Universal Exposition of Seville, during the mascot's first appearances in 1989. An experienced voice actress, she worked on giving the mascot an Andalusian accent, mixing it with foreign languages, but only played it on a handful of appearances that year and was replaced by other people.
  • Starred in a popular TV commercial for Praims cough drops in 1980. The sentence she says at the end of the commercial, "!Qué cosas tiene mi novio!" became a popular catchphrase in Spain at the time.
  • In the mid-1970's, she worked with Pedro Almodóvar at the Spanish phone company Telefónica, and would regularly hang out with him. They drifted apart however, and has never appeared in any of his films, The last time she saw him was when she was already working steadily as a voice actress, and he came to the studio to do some ADR in his film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989).
  • Met her husband, Juan Ramón Sánchez in the late 70's when she substituted one of the girl members of his music group, Red de San Luis, for a few live shows.
  • Her late husband, Juan Ramón Sánchez, was also a cast member of Barrio Sésamo (1979) playing Chema, the baker. The pair had been married for four years when the series started filming.

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