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Maria Conchita Alonso: Biography

Maria Conchita Alonso

Birth Name: Maria Concepcion Alonso Bustillo
Birth Place: Cienfuegos, Cuba
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/29/1957, Cancer
Profession: Actor; singer

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Maria Conchita Alonso Fast Facts:

Her family moved to Caracas, Venezuela, shortly after Fidel Castro's communist takeover of Cuba.
Won the Miss Teen World title in 1971 and represented Venezuela in the Miss World pageant in 1975.
Has more than 10 albums to her credit, several of which went gold; her first international effort, Maria Conchita (1984), went platinum.
Breakthrough Hollywood role was opposite Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson (1984).
Became the first Latin American-born woman to star on Broadway in a 1995 production of Kiss of the Spider Woman.
In 2010, wrote an open letter to Sean Penn, her costar in the 1988 film Colors, in which she criticized his stance on politics in Venezuela.

Maria Conchita Alonso Relationships:
Conchita Bustillo - Mother
Ricardo Alonso - Brother
Adnan Taletovich - Ex-significant Other
Marcos Moreno - Ex-significant Other
Ricardo Alonso - Father
Roberto Alonso - Brother

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2011 Academy Awards Parties, Maria Conchita Alonso Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com

Maneater, Maria Conchita Alonso Richard Foreman/Lifetime Networks

Maneater, Maria Conchita Alonso, Gregory Harrison Richard Foreman/Lifetime Networks

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