Mimí Lazo

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title: "Mimí Lazo" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1958-births", "living-people", "venezuelan-stage-actresses", "venezuelan-people-of-italian-descent", "actresses-from-caracas", "venezuelan-film-actresses", "venezuelan-telenovela-actresses"] description: "Venezuelan actress and producer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimí_Lazo" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Venezuelan actress and producer ::

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Field	Value
image	Mimí Lazo en 2018.png
name	Mimí Lazo
birth_date
birth_place	Caracas, Venezuela
birthname	Ana María Lazo
occupation	Actress, Producer
spouse	Juan Martínez
Orlando Aoun
Jean Carlo Simancas
Luis Fernández
children	1
parents	Henrique Lazo
Sara Domínguez
family	Lasso (nephew)
homepage	http://www.mimilazo.com
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| image = Mimí Lazo en 2018.png | name = Mimí Lazo | birth_date = | birth_place = Caracas, Venezuela | birthname = Ana María Lazo | occupation = Actress, Producer | spouse = Juan Martínez Orlando Aoun Jean Carlo Simancas Luis Fernández | children = 1 | parents = Henrique Lazo Sara Domínguez | family = Lasso (nephew) | homepage = http://www.mimilazo.com

Ana María Lazo, commonly known as Mimí Lazo, (born November 23, 1958, in Caracas) is a Venezuelan film, television and theatrical actress and producer. Her most notable role was in the 1996 monologue El Aplauso Va Por Dentro in which she toured all throughout South America and Europe.

Biography

Early life

She is the second of the three children of Henrique De La Santísima Trinidad Lazo (1921-1995) and Sara Beatríz Domínguez (1930-2011). His brothers are Henrique Alberto and Andrés Eugenio De Jesús. Mimí, began her acting in the workshops of well known stage directors of Caracas in the mid-1970s. Later she received scholarships to study Scenic Arts in Italy and attended acting classes in the Actors Studio of New York.

Career

She began her acting career in the Venezuelan theatre performing adaptations of plays by William Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night and Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, among others.

In 1979 she made her debut in the Venezuelan cinema with the film El Pez que Fuma, produced by the long time filmmaker Roman Chalbaud, and her first appearance on national television with the popular telenovela Carolina. It wasn't until the year 2000 where she made her debut in the international cinema with the independent film Just for the Time Being alongside Eva Herzigová and Patrick O'Neil.

She has received numerous awards in film festival and theater awards both in her native country and abroad. In 1995 she was among the successful Latin American actresses by Variety magazine, and Style magazine considers her one of the best actresses in Latin America alongside Salma Hayek and María Conchita Alonso.

Personal life

She married Juan Gerardo Martínez and went to live in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Two years later they divorced, she went to live in Italy and there, in 1981, she married Orlando José Aoun. On September 8, 1982, their daughter was born; Sindy Carolina. A little over a year later, they divorced. At the end of the 80's, he married Jean Carlo Simancas in Mérida, Mérida and they ended up divorcing. On December 28, 1995, she married Luis Fernández (actor). Her daughter, is also an actress and her brother, Henrique is a Film Director; Actor and Musician, father of Lasso (singer)

Filmography

Films

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	El pez que fuma
1986	Una noche oriental	Leonor Montes
1991	Terra Nova	Noemi
1992	Máscaro: el cazador americano
1992	Los platos del diablo	Sindia Santos
1998	Milagro en la Sabana	Patricia
1998	Golpe de estadio	Samara
2000	Just for the Time Being	Carmen
2000	Borrón y cuenta nueva	Sindia Santos
2002	Asesinato en lunes de carnaval	Florencia
2004	Perder es cuestión de método	Susan Caviedes
2005	El caracazo
2006	Mi vida por Sharon, ¿o qué te pasa a ti?
2007	Tómalo suave	María	Television film
2007	El café de Lupe	Marilyn	Short film
2014	Liz en Septiembre	Dolores
2016	Tamara	Elena
2026	The Smoking Fish (2026, film)	La Garza
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Carolina	Nurbia	Television debut
1984	La salvaje
1986	Amor prohibido	Elvira
1987	Mi nombre es amor	Alejandra
1989	Los Ultimos Heroes	Manuela	Mini-series with Menudo
1990	De mujeres	Antonieta
1995	El desafío	Ana Luisa
1997	Contra viento y marea	Ana Luisa
1998-1997	El país de las mujeres	Herself	Uncredited
1999	Toda mujer	Celia Martínez
2000	Angélica pecado	Herself
2001	Guerra de mujeres	Brigitte Castro de Boni
2002	Géminis, venganza de amor	Emperatriz	7 episodes
2002	Las González	Azucena
2002	Mi gorda bella	Eva Lanz de Villanueva
2003	La invasora	Inés Guerra
2006-2007	Voltea pa' que te enamores	Gladis López	Co-lead role
2008	¿Vieja yo?	Margot Batalla	Lead role
2013	Los secretos de Lucía	Ayra Mesutti
2014	Corazón esmeralda	Federica del Rosario Pérez	Lead antagonist; 138 episodes
2016	Para verte mejor
2017	Rica, Famosa, Latina	Herself	Main Role
2023	Dramáticas	Catalina Montenegro
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References

References

1. "MIMI LAZO Novelas, películas y, sobre todo, obras de teatro.".
2. "MIMI LAZO En 1978 se marchó "obligada" a Roma".
3. "MIMI LAZO Se ha casado cinco veces.".
4. "Finalizó el rodaje de la nueva "El pez que fuma", con Fran Berenguer y Mimi Lazo".

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