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Delia Amadora Garca Gerboles better known as Delia Garcs was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema . She made almostappearances in film between 1937 and 1959 and acted on stage from 1936 to 1966. She won the Premios Sur Best Actress award three times from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, as well as the Argentine Film Critics Associations Silver Condor Award for Best Actress, the Premios Leopold Torre Nilsson, Premio Pablo Podest, and the inaugural ACE Platinum Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asociacin de Cronistas del Espectculo.

Delia Amadora Garca Gerboles was bornOctober 1919 to Gabriel Garca and Amadora Gerboles in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a student of the Labardn Childrens Theatre and trained at the Conservatorio Nacional de Msica y Arte Escnico and the Comedia Nacional at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. Claiming she had always been a theater rat, and performed her first role at age 8, she trained with students like Zully Moreno, Nury Monts, Fanny Navarro, and Malisa Zini. Students received a small monthly stipend and participated in plays to hone their skills many taking pseudonyms. Between the performances of Mandinga en la sierra and Cyrano de Bergerac, Mara Luisa Zambrini became Malisa Sambrini and Delia Gerbols became Delia Garcs. One of her teachers, Cunil Cabanillas, gave her her first professional role in a small part of the 1936 production of Locos de verano, a play written by Gregorio de Laferrre.

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