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Florinda Meza, the actress who gave life to Doña Florinda, turns 72

Florinda Meza García de Gómez He was born on February 8, 1949 in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico. She is an actress, screenwriter, writer, director, producer, singer and broadcaster but surely you know her for playing the endearing characters of Doña Florinda and Popis in the series El Chavo del 8.

Was the wife of Roberto Gómez Bolaños, the Mexican producer and actor who played some of the most beloved and remembered characters on Latin American television: the very Chavo del 8, Chespirito and El Chapulín Colorado, among others.

They were always linked, both sentimentally and professionally. They met in 1969 and together they produced the strip Chespirito and the theater play 11 y 12, very popular in Mexico. They were a couple for almost three decades, they made their love official at the altar on November 20, 2004 and were married until in 2014 the actor died at 85 years of age..

Cast of “El Chavo del 8”

Without a doubt, his characters were famous during the 1970s and 1980s and early 1990s to become part of the emotional memory of many generations of Latin America who grew up watching the vicissitudes of children in Chavo’s neighborhood, the adventures of the antihero Chespitiro or the blunders of Doctor Chapatín.

At 72, Florinda Meza is more active than ever. In 2019, he announced that he would return to acting being part of “Dulce familia”, a film that premiered in May in Mexico and was a resounding success in that country.

Florinda Meza in “Dulce Familia”

In addition, she constantly shares memories of her times as an actress, photos of her family and pets and images together on her networks. to the love of his life, Roberto Gómez Bolaños.

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