Johanna Rosaly

She has received multiple honors, among them, the Puerto Rican Culture Institute (ICP), dedicated their 1997 film festival to her, honoring her 40 years as an actress. (jeansimmons.net - a fan website) (http://www.jeansimmons.net). But she also made two more movies: 1993's Shortcut to Paradise, and 1994's Linda Sara, alongside Chayanne. In 1989, she again starred in a miniseries version of Great Expectations, where she performed the role of Miss Havisham, Estella's adopted mother. During the 1990s, she dedicated much of her career to acting in various critically acclaimed theater plays. For her appearance in the mini-series, The Thorn Birds, she won an Emmy award. In 1989, she acted alongside Tommy Muniz in Jacobo Morales' Lo que le Paso a Santiago, which was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film.. in "A little night music," then took the show to London.

As the 1980s went along, Rosaly began to retire from acting in soap operas and became a television interviewer and show host, back at her original channel of Telemundo Puerto Rico, then known only as Telemundo Canal 2. Fortunately, the screen's loss was the stage and television's gain: to glowing reviews, Simmons toured the U.S. By 1980, rumors of a romance with world boxing champion Wilfredo Gomez ran across Puerto Rico. By the 70s, her screen career had tapered off. There, she participated in three other soap operas. Among her best-known leading roles are Guys and Dolls (1955), Elmer Gantry (directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks) and Spartacus, and The Happy Ending, again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination. Rosaly would soon move from Telemundo Puerto Rico to WAPA-TV. In 1950, she married the British actor, Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transition to Hollywood.

She also attained considerable fame in Spain. Later, she would sign with CBS International and record two more albums for them. In 1948, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Laurence Olivier. She signed with Velvet Records soon after, and began touring all over Latin America, to promote her two albums under that label. Her first major film was Great Expectations, in which she played the young Estella. However, the one she is remembered most for, and the one that helped her internationalize as a singer and actress was 1978's Cristina Bazan, alongside José Luis Rodríguez and Adamari Lopez among others. She was born in Crouch End, London and began acting while still in her teens. Rosaly made a number of soap operas in the 1970s. Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929) is a British actress.

Her daughter, Alfonsina Molinary, went on to become a famous actress herself in 1989; when she was the star of television comedy Maripili, a show that resembled Clarissa Explains it All in format, and a famous opera singer in Philadelphia. Soon she married Jose Gilberto Molinary, with whom she had 2 sons and a daughter. In this soap opera, she played a mute girl. Rosaly went to college and then participated in the Telenovela named El Retrato de Angela (Angelas Photo).

Then, she participated in such plays as My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music, the latter of which allowed her to share the stage with another Puerto Rican acting legend, Camille Carrion (who is the sister of Richard Carrion). Rosaly began to take singing class when she became a young teenager. That same year, she debuted on television, with channel 2's production of Los Amigos de Pinocho (Pinocho's Friends). In 1957, she made her acting debut at Teatro Tapia, in a play named Mientras los Ninos Juegan (While the Children Play).

Negro, and dancing class with Beatriz Trujillo. At the age of eight, she began to take acting class with Luis A. She was born in the San Juan area known as Santurce, which was also the birthplace to such other famous Puerto Rican entertainers as Andy Montañez and Cano Estremera. Johanna Rosaly (born January 13, 1948) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer.