Mariasela Álvarez

Mariasela Álvarez

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Mariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón January 31, 1960 (1960-01-31) (age 51) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Title(s)	Señorita República Dominicana Mundo 1992 Miss World 1982
Major competition(s)	Señorita República Dominicana 1982 (Miss República Dominicana Mundo) Miss World 1982 (Winner) (Miss World Americas)

Mariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón (born January 31, 1960) was Miss World 1982 and is currently a television show host and architect from the Dominican Republic. She became the first Dominican woman to win an international beauty title. Álvarez achieved much popularity in her native country, due to her long career on television, which included a successful eight-year run with her award-winning show Esta Noche Mariasela. She is also an accomplished architect who has designed important buildings in the Dominican Republic.

Career

The native of Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital, was crowned the 32nd Miss World, on November 18, 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

At the end of her term as Miss World, she returned to her country and finished her studies of architecture at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Álvarez has designed many buildings in her home country, including one of Santo Domingo's landmarks, the Torre Cristal, where the telephone company Codetel has one of its commercial branches.^[1]

In 1991, she engaged in the television business and hosted her own weekly talk show Con los Ojos Abiertos (lit. "With Open Eyes"), which she co-hosted at the beginning with Milagros German Olalla, Miss Dominican Republic 1980.

In 1996 she opened her own television production company, Maralva, S. A., which produced four miniseries for eight years in Esta Noche Mariasela, a variety weekly show of two hours, winner of the Casandra Award four times for the Best Special Television Show.

In 2004 Álvarez relocated to Madrid with her Spanish husband, well known hotelier Alberto del Pino,^[2] and since 2005 she has been producing the shows Esta Noche Mariasela (lit. "Mariasela Tonight") and Esta Tarde Mariasela (lit. "Mariasela This Afternoon") for Popular TV, an UHF channel property of COPE, the second largest radio broadcast station in Spain.^[3]

Family

Álvarez is married to Sergio Alberto Fernández del Pino Fernández and is the mother of four children: Andrés Alberto Fernández del Pino Álvarez, Chantal Fernández del Pino Álvarez, Rebeca Fernández del Pino Álvarez, Emmanuel Fernández del Pino Álvarez.^[4] She is the niece of Mariano Lebrón Saviñón.

Community work

Álvarez founded Hogar Mariololy in 1993, through the Eva Lebrón de Álvarez Foundation, created in honor of her mother.^[5] She also founded the Casa Rosada of Santo Domingo, a home run by the Congregation of Las Hijas de la Caridad, for orphans and HIV children.^[6]

References

1. ^ Diario Digital (in Spanish)
2. ^ Revista Ahora (in Spanish)
3. ^ Academia TV Spain Channel (in Spanish)
4. ^ Rootsweb
5. ^ La Casa Rosada
6. ^ La Casa Rosada

External links

• El Mundo (in Spanish)
• Newspaper Hoy (in Spanish)

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Pilín León	Miss World Americas 1982	Succeeded by Rocío Isabel Luna
Preceded by Josefina Maria Cuello Perez	Señorita República Dominicana Mundo 1982	Succeeded by Yonoris Maribel Estrella Florentino

Persondata
Name	Alvarez, Mariasela
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Date of birth	January 31, 1960
Place of birth	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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