Luisa Vehil

Luisa Vehil (November 12, 1912, Montevideo, Uruguay – October 24, 1991, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan theater and movie actress who had a notable career in Argentina. She was an iconic figure in the Argentinean theater scene.

Luisa Vehil was born in 1912 in Montevideo, Uruguay, she belongs to an eight generation dynasty of actors originally from Catalonia; daughter and granddaughter of theatre players. Her brothers were Paquita and Juan. She was also the aunt of actors Miguel Ángel Solá and Mónica Vehil.

Luisa moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina at an early age, and starred in her first movie in 1933, Los tres berretines, directed by Enrique Telémaco Susini. It was the second Argentine talk movie. She went on to appear in other minor 'talkies' throughout the '30s, working in tango-oriented films by famed tango writer Manuel Romero and Eduardo Morera.

Opposite to Juan Perón regime she suffered an attack when playing the leading role in the play Fascination.

Vehil's next big role was in Pampa bárbara, an epic western directed by Lucas Demare and Hugo Fregonese. It was her second and last screen appearance throughout the '40s; likewise, she acted in film once per decade – once in the '50s (En la ardiente oscuridad, by Daniel Tinayre, 1958) and once in the '60s (El bote, el río y la gente, 1960).

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