Gisela Ponce de León

Gisela Ponce de León
Born	April 12, 1985 Peru
Occupation	Actress, dancer, singer
Years active	1996–present

Gisela Ponce de León Franco, (born 12 April 1985) is a Peruvian film, television and stage actress and singer.^[1] Gisela began working professionally as a child actor on the musical Annie and in other productions. She appeared in several more musicals before being selected for the lead role in the hit TV show Esta Sociedad.^[2]

In her country has starred in the musicals Cabaret, La Cage aux Folles, Next to normal and Our Town. She played Mary Warren in Las Brujas de Salem, Rachel Corrie in My Name Is Rachel Corrie and Penny Pingleton in Hairspray.^[3]

Ponce de León in 2010.

Early life

Gisela used to live in Cercado de Lima and study at Colegio de Jesús. When she was a child, she took ballet, singing and dancing classes. As an adolescent, she participated in Nubeluz.

Career

After being part of several TV shows, Gisela decided to apply to the ETUC (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú's Theare School).

She made her debut as a film actress in the short film "Besando a tu papá" (Kissing your dad) at 2007 and lent her voice to the role of Tiffany in the Peruvian animated film "Valentino y el clan del can" (Valentino and the dongs' clan) the next year.

At 2010, Ponce de Leon participated in "El Gran Show", a reality show whose hostess was Gisela Varcárcel. She took the first place. Parallel, she starred two musicals: "El Musical 2010" and "La Cage aux Folles".

She served as the opening act for the Paramore's South America Tour at 2011. She started her career as a radio hostess in the radio station Studio92 at 2012 and as a TV hostess in the Frecuencia Latina's programme "Ponte Play" the next year.

Theatre

List of credits in theatre as an actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Annie	Peeper
2004	El Principito	Rose garden
2005	La Corporacion	Various roles
	El Mercader de Venecia	Porcia
2006	Broadway nights	Christine Daaé
2006–2007	Escuela de payasos	Pimpola	Lead role
2007	Sueño de una noche de verano	Hermia
	My Name Is Rachel Corrie	Rachel Corrie	Lead role
	Peru Ja Ja	Performer	Voice
	Canta la cloaca	Griselda	Lead role
	Tartufo	Mariana
2008	El teniente de Inishmore	Mairead
	Noche de tontos	Olivia
	Cuatro amigos en busca de la chompa perdida	La osa florentina
	Feisbuk	Stefani	Lead role
2009	Cabaret	Sally Bowles	Lead role Teatro Segura
	Una Pulga en la Oreja	Antuanette
	Incierto Concierto	Franccesca	Lead role
2009–2010	Las Brujas de Salem	Mary Warren	Teatro La Plaza
2010	El Enfermo imaginario	Antoñita
	El musical 2010	Various roles
	The Vagina Monologues	Performer
	La Cage aux Folles	Anne Dindon
	Escuela de Payasos	Pimpola	Revival
2011	Next to Normal	Natalie Goodman	Lead role
	La chica del Maxim	Coco	Lead role
	Escuela de Payasos	Pimpola	Revival
2011–2012	La fiesta de cumpleaños	Lulu
2012	Hairspray	Penny Pingleton	Teatro Peruano Japonés
	Nuestro pueblo (Our Town)[4]	Emily Webb	Teatro La Plaza
2013	Black Comedy	Carol Melkett
2014	Where are the Clowns?	Pimpola

Filmography

List of film credits as an actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Besando a tu Papá	Liuva	Short film
2008	Valentino y el clan del can	Tifanny	Voice
2009	Cu4tro	Gabriela
2013	Quizás mañana[5]	Natalia	Lead role
	Asu Mare[6]	Isabel "Chabela" Vilar
	Rocanrol 68	Bea

List of television credits as an actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Esta Sociedad	Mirkala	Lead role
2008	Esta Sociedad 2	Mirkala	Lead role
2009	Rita y yo y mi otra yo	Anís
2011	Ana Cristina	María Julia Benavides Aragón
2015	Al Fondo Hay Sitio	Ariana Romero Benavides

List of television credits as herself

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Karina y sus amigos	Karinchiquitina	Dance cast
2010	El gran show	Contestant	Winner
	El gran show: reyes del show	Contestant	3° place
2012	Yo soy	Guest judge	Casting week
2013	Ponte Play	Host
2014	La voz kids (Perú)	Guest mentor

References

1. Cabaret en Lima
2. Los Personajes del año 2008: Gisela Ponce de León
3. Del Águila, Sonia (03-30-12). "Gisela Ponce de León y sus planes de llegar a Broadway". El Comercio Perú. Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. Silva, José Miguel (04-11-12). "Gisela Ponce de León: "Entre cine, teatro y televisión, siempre preferiré el teatro"". La República. Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. "Gisela Ponce de León y Bruno Ascenzo iniciaron grabaciones de filme "Quizás mañana"". El Comercio Perú. 05-08-12. Check date values in: |date= (help)
6. ""Asu Mare": Gisela Ponce de León es el personaje favorito de nuestros lectores". El Comercio Perú. 2013-04-20.

External links

• Gisela Ponce de León at the Internet Movie Database
• Gisela Ponce de León on Twitter
• Gisela Ponce de León on Facebook