Mara Escalante
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• 1968) is a Mexican actress, comedian and singer, best known as the star of the Televisa sitcom Maria de todos los angeles, in which she portrays three roles, including the title role
• Escalante's career dates to the mid-1990s
• A native of Mexico City and an UNAM and Instituto Andres Soler alumna, Escalante first received international fame as a stand-up comedian, developing such characters as "Nancy Aerobics", "Chu-Ly (La Princesa Dragon)", "Dona Lucha" and "Liboria", a female police officer
• Her international appeal took her from several Televisa series such as Humor es
• los comediantes, Al ritmo de la noche, Al fin de semana and Otro rollo to television programs in other Spanish-speaking countries, including the Venezuelan talk show Viviana a la medianoche as well as a TV special in Spain
• Most of her Televisa appearances, as well as her appearance on Viviana a la medianoche, have been broadcast on the Univision network in the United States
• In 2008, she joined the Televisa team at the Beijing Olympics, performing comedy during network coverage, thus making her the first Mexican comic to visit China
• She has also performed in the United States and other Latin American countries