Anita Martínez


Ana Elisa Martínez popularly known as Anita Martínez is an actress, comedian, dancer, and Argentine television host.
She has won two Martín Fierro Awards for her comedian work in en Noche de Ronda, Showmatch, and Animales Sueltos. She has also received a Vos Award for her work in theater.

Biography

She started studying classical dance. Later, she decided to study musical theater. She got her first job on television after being selected for the famous sports chain TyC Sports.
After going through several jobs, a producer convinced her to study acting:
By the end of 1996, she was on the television youth program Todo bien with Marcelo Mingochea on Channel 13.
The following year she debuted in the theater with the play Pijamas, which continued till 1999. In the 2000 season, she performed in El Show de las Divorciadas.
Between 2004 and 2005 she acted in the comic series Panadería Los Felipe. In 2005, she participated in the comedy program Vale la pena, along with Fabián Gianola. In cinema, she participated in Apasionados and in El cine de Mailte. For several years, she advertised the Harpic toilet bowl cleaner.
Anita Martínez competed in the dance reality show Patinando por un Sueño, broadcast on the reality show Showmatch, led by Marcelo Tinelli, where she won the second place against Ximena Capristo after four months of competition. She was called back after Cecilia Oviedo's resignation, who suffered severe injuries while rehearsing two weeks into the contest.
In 2008, she performed in the theatrical play Planeta Show, along with the renowned humorist Jorge Ginzburg.
In 2013, she starred in her own one-person theatrical, De Vuelta al Barrio.
She was also a part of the reality television Bailando por un Sueño 2014, which was broadcast on Showmatch, along with her fellow comedian Marcos Bicho Gómez, and together they became the leading competitors with 59.42% of the public vote. They won after eight months of competition. In 2016, she competed again with Bicho Gómez in Bailando por un Sueño 2016, where they got the fourteenth place after five months of competition. By the end of the same year, she was called by Flavio Mendoza to participate in his work Mahatma along with Facundo Mazzei, Barbie Franco, and the rock band from Córdoba, Iceberg del Sur.

Theater

Television

Movies

Radio

Awards and Nominations