What has happened to the talented actress Thais Valdés?

MEXICO CITY, Mexico.- Thais Valdés Maceira is one of the figures of Cuban cinema to whom you always have to return, especially if the nostalgia of the émigré asks you to recreate scenes of Carla in the film Anything.

Thais Valdés was born in Havana on September 25, 1963, but perhaps a different person was born in 2001 with the film Anything.

Now that he lives in Mexico, it is inevitable to think about “I want to go irrrrr!” that Carla vociferated in a film about the need to emigrate and that perhaps, from fiction, she advocated the actress’s own departure from Cuba.

The acting career of Valdés, who graduated from the National School of Art Instructors in Havana in 1985, began with the transcendental film A girlfriend for Daviddirected by Orlando Rojas that same year.

From that moment he has jumped into other films that marked his career, with important leading roles in some of the most relevant films of Cuban cinema.

Plaff or too much fear of lifeby Juan Carlos Tabío; Black Quarterby Pierre Kovalnik; adorable liesby Gerardo Chijona; Alice in Wonderlandby Daniel Díaz; A paradise under the starsby Gerardo Chijona, are some of the films where he showed his versatility for diverse roles.

On television, he has also acted in On the side of the heart, Today is always still, Psychologist, The Innocents, Dossier of Heartbreak, The Honored Ones, The Witching Hour, Pink Cameljust to name a few spaces.

Anythingthe film by Juan Carlos Cremata that immortalizes the character of Carla, the young woman who debates between leaving and staying on the Island, “fixing” the lives of others through the letters she manipulates, was a crowning moment in her career. by Thais Valdes.

The actress, already noted for Alice in Wonderlanda film that only three days after its national premiere was removed from all Cuban cinemas, gave voice, now in Anythingto a new generation that lived with the latent desire of wanting to emigrate.

In 2003, Valdés moved to Mexico, where she has reinvented herself as an actress and where she has found another passion: teaching.

“I left Cuba for the right that we all have to leave, to travel the world and live new experiences,” he expressed in La Casa de Maka.

In that space he revealed that his desire to emigrate was mainly due to the desire to make his life in Mexico with his life partner, Pablo.

Furthermore, she was moved by the need to rediscover and recognize herself, after many years of assuming characters that marked her identity.

With humility, she said that in Mexico, where she claims to have arrived while unknown as an actress, she returned to theater but also began to teach acting classes to young people and later to be a children’s teacher.

In the Aztec nation in 2006 he faced the challenge of interpreting The madhouse outsidea work that addressed the topic of the presidential elections.

Regarding this, Valdés said: “Both in Cuba, where the elections are always directed in the same direction, and in Mexico, where democracy is young, we have to commit.”

In Mexico it also became Virgilio Piñera’s Electra, under the direction of Ramón Díaz.

In a bid to reactivate Cuban theater in that country, Valdés immersed himself in the Electra Garrigó as part of the MEXI-SON Theater Group.

Later, he was part of the cast of the Mexican version of the play Chamacowhich starred Valdés alongside Iran Castillo, Adán Aguilar and Pedro Sicard.

Under the direction of Alejandro Ramírez, the actors recreated the story written by Abel González Melo about male prostitution at night in Central Havana, and the double standards of some Cuban families, but with a plot set in Mexico.

As an actress and as a teacher, Thais Valdés’ career will continue to be an unavoidable reference for many Cubans.

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