This is how Bárbara Rey has changed: from elephant tamer to having the most famous night of love on television

Bárbara Rey has been one of the best-known faces on the national scene for decades.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
10 March 2023 Friday 14:52
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This is how Bárbara Rey has changed: from elephant tamer to having the most famous night of love on television

Bárbara Rey has been one of the best-known faces on the national scene for decades. And it is that the multiple exclusives of her made this vedette and actress one of the most recurring personalities on the small screen. So much so that her life has now become a series that this same Tuesday, March 7, she will promote in El Hormiguero.

It's called A Barbarian Life. Bárbara Rey, portrait of a survivor, a new docuseries that joins Cristo y Rey, which can already be seen on Atresplayer, in which she will delve into the events of her professional and personal life in first person.

But who is Barbara Rey? The truth is that this well-known actress started her professional career with jobs closely linked to the world of beauty, both nationally and internationally. This is how the opportunity to work in both film and television came to him. And she did not miss it.

In 1975 he made the leap to television with Valerio Lazarov in one of his traditional New Year's Eve galas and his fame is settled in a literal way. As? Giving her a variety format called Palmarés in which she establishes herself as one of the most attractive personalities on the national scene.

This is how roles began to arrive in movies and theaters across the country, both from a more interpretive facet and by combining her artistic skills in work as a star. But her relationship with the seventh art was especially close. And it is that her face is directly associated with the time of the uncovering. So much so that between 1969 and 1982 she made no less than 43 films.

However, the life of Bárbara Rey would take an exponential turn in the 80s. At that time, this well-known actress decided to step aside to marry Ángel Cristo, a circus businessman with whom she would have two children and who would change her life. forever. Thus began Rey's journey as an elephant tamer.

However, seven years later, Bárbara Rey returns to television with the program Una noche Bárbara, a prelude to her return to the theater as well after her separation from Ángel Cristo, which led her to delve further into her career on television as a collaborator.

Because there came a time when Bárbara Rey went from presenting to appearing. And that's how she could be seen as a claim to countless programs on all television networks. First as a professional and then as a person. All because her love life never stopped being news. And headlines were not lacking.

To the statements about the ill-treatment of Ángel Rey we must add the night of love with Chelo García Cortés that was revealed in the Deluxe. A series of uncovered secrets to which must be added his relationship with the emeritus king, Juan Carlos I. A host of experiences that can now be seen in his new docuseries.