{
  "id": 2215975,
  "title": "Who is Moria Casán, the vedette who became a local gay icon and now a Netflix star",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/who-is-moria-casan-the-vedette-who-became-a-local-gay-icon-and-now-a",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T19:56:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Buenos Aires Herald",
    "slug": "buenos-aires-herald",
    "url": "https://buenosairesherald.com/culture-ideas/film-series/who-is-moria-casan-the-vedette-who-became-a-local-gay-icon-and-now-a-netflix-star"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Moria Casán, a vedette who has become a local gay icon in Argentina, is also now a star on Netflix. Her extraordinary career, spanning over five decades, has made her one of the most recognizable and difficult-to-categorize pop-culture figures in the country. Born Ana María Casanova in Buenos Aires in 1946, Casán began her career in Argentine show business during the early 1970s. She became a vedette of the country's golden age of revue theater, or teatro de revista, known for her glamour, sexual confidence, and comedy.\n\nCasán's career continued to evolve throughout the years, with appearances in films and television alongside popular comedians like Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, and Susana Giménez. She established herself as one of Argentina's top TV personalities in the mid-1980s, hosting various sketch comedy programs and talk shows such as \"Monumental Moria\", \"A la cama con Moria\", and \"Entre Moria y vos\". She also starred in the successful all-female play \"Brujas\" from 1991 to 1996.\n\nCasán's flamboyant persona, characterized by outrageous outfits, theatrical insults, and catchphrases, became almost as important as her professional work. Her intentionally provocative image turned her into a gay icon in Argentina, representing an unapologetic form of self-invention. Her appeal was not just that she was a glamorous woman with big curves, but that she treated identity itself as performance, exaggerating, reinventing, and controlling her image.\n\nNow, to coincide with her 80th birthday, Netflix has released a biopic called \"Moria\" that takes on her mythology as its starting point. The eight-episode series fictionalizes Casán's life and features her daughter, actress Sofía Gala Castiglione, and actors Griselda Siciliani and Cecilia Roth portraying her at different stages of her life, with Moria herself also appearing in the production.",
  "summary": "Her extraordinary career began in the 1970s and she soon became much more than just another TV, film and theater actress, reaching pop-culture status La entrada Who is Moria Casán, the vedette who became a local gay icon and now a Netflix star se publicó primero en Buenos Aires Herald .",
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}