María Adelaida Puerta

María Adelaida Puerta Restrepo (born 11 November 1982, Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian actress known for her role as Catalina in the Colombian television series Sin tetas no hay paraíso by Caracol Televisión network and in El Capo by Canal RCN. Both of these roles earned her India Catalina Awards.^[1]

María Adelaida Puerta was born on 11 November 1982 in Medellín, Colombia.

At 19 years old, she left her home city of Medellín to live in Bogotá. There, she studied at the Teatro Libre de Bogotá and La Casa del Teatro Nacional. During this time, she also traveled to multiple countries, where she acquired more skills for her work as an actress.

She worked at Mapa Teatro, under directors Heidi Abderhalden and Rolf Abderhalden. In film, she worked with Felipe Aljure, Ricardo Gabrielli, Klych Lópezn, and Jaime Escallón.

Currently, she is based in México City,^[2] where she continues her career as an actress.

She has spoken about her interest in and practicing of yoga and meditation, which she has said helps her physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Before leaving Colombia, she spent a year and a half teaching classes in yoga at women's prisons in Bogotá.

Among her works in Colombian television, she has acted in Todos quieren con Marilyn by RCN Televisiónas Lina, El vuelo de la cometa as Victoria, and La mujer en el espejo.

In 2006, Caracol acquired the rights to produce the novel Sin tetas no hay paraíso by Colombian screenwriter and novelist Gustavo Bolívar as a television series of the same name. María Adelaida Puerta tried out for the main character of the novel, Catalina. Initially, she was denied the role, with the reasoning that she lacked the necessary qualities. But, when she was going to sign onto another project with RCN, they contacted her via Caracol and gave her the role.^[3]

Puerta's role in Sin tetas no hay paraíso earned her a India Catalina Awards ‘New Actress of the Year’ award at the 2007 Cartagena de Indias Festival, one of Colombia's most prestigious awards for film and television.

In 2007, she participated in Las profesionales, a su servicio by Caracol, in which she played Cassandra, an ambitious, calculating, and latter-climbing professional very different from her role as Catalina.^[4]

By the end of 2007, Caracol launched the telenovela Montecristo, in which Puerta played Victoria Sáenz.

In 2008, she starred in the sixth episode of the second season of Fox Latin America's Tiempo final as Viviana. In which she worked alongside David Carradine.

In 2009, she was in El Capo by RCN Televisión, where she played La Perrys, a faithful lieutenant in the service of 'El Capo' Pedro Pablo León Jaramillo (Marlon Moreno). For this performance, she won Best Antagonistic Actress at the 2010 India Catalina Awards and a Favorite Villain award at the 2010 TVyNovelas awards.

In 2012, she starred in La Mariposa, a Fox Telecolombia production for the MundoFox channel in the United States that is broadcast in Colombia by the RCN Channel.

In film, she worked for Felipe Aljure in El colombian dream and Klych López in the short film Collar de perlas, winner of 'Proyecto 48' Award of the TNT cable channel, and shot in her native Medellín. There, she played Laura, a young woman who earns money working with her voice, leaving phone messages. At one point, she tries to leave this bizarre trade, but it is extremely difficult for her. With Klych López, she played the character Mónica Yamhure in the docufilm Correr o Morir. She was also in the film Cuando Rompen Las Olas by director Riccardo Gabrielli, and starred in the film El Caso Watson by Jaime Escallón.

• María Adelaida Puerta on Biografías
• María Adelaida Puerta on 123 Mujer
• María Adelaida Puerta on Colarte
• María Adelaida Puerta at IMDb