Gilda Haddock Acevedo was born on 23 February, 1956 and is a Puerto Rican actress, gospel singer and dancer.
19 Facts About Gilda Haddock
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Haddock was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, to Korean War veteran Jorge Haddock and Francisca Acevedo, who was a teacher.
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When Gilda Haddock was four, her parents divorced, and she and her siblings were largely raised by their mother.
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Gilda Haddock's father instilled in her a love for the arts, teaching her how to draw.
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Gilda Haddock was interested in dancing; she studied ballet with famed dancer Tony D'Astro in D'Astro's Caguas academy, being taught there by D'Astro's dance partner, Nydia Rivera.
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Gilda Haddock then participated in a show named Tres Muchachas de Hoy, where she shared hosting activities with Sonia Noemi and with Alba Nydia Diaz.
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Gilda Haddock decided to move for a period to Los Angeles, California, to try her luck there and to study at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute acting school.
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In 1976, Gilda Haddock was lured back to Puerto Rico by an offer to act in the telenovela Pueblo Chico, which was written by Jacobo Morales and televised on the Canal 11 television channel.
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The next year, seeing how Gilda Haddock's celebrity was growing in her country of Puerto Rico, Canal 2's producer Paquito Cordero made her an offer to move to that channel and host a show named Senoras y Senores alongside singer and show host Chucho Avellanet.
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Gilda Haddock accepted the offer and moved to Canal 2, beginning what would turn to be the most prolific era in her professional show business career.
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Gilda Haddock then made her film debut, acting as Vanessa del Valle in the 1977 Puerto Rico-Mexico co-production film, La Noche de San Juan: Santo en Oro Negro, alongside Mexican wrestler El Santo and Luis Daniel Rivera.
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Gilda Haddock then moved to Canal 4 during 1984, to star in a telenovela named Mili, where she played the main female character, Maria Milagros "Mili" Ruiz.
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Gilda Haddock decided, from the period comprising between 1986 and 1992, to concentrate on her family life.
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Gilda Haddock broke her hiatus from television and returned to the Puerto Rican television screens in 1991, co-hosting, alongside Eddie Miro, a Canal 2 show named Noche de Gala.
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In 2000, Gilda Haddock acted in the children's play La Bella Durmiente, a play that included Gladys Rodriguez, former Menudo member Robert Avellanet, Suzette Baco and Lou Briel, among others.
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Gilda Haddock participated in other plays, such as Don Quixote, Las Mariposas son Libres, La Casa de Bernarda Alba and Ocho Mujeres.
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Jorge Gilda Haddock Acevedo is Gilda Haddock's brother; he is the president of the University of Puerto Rico.
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Gilda Haddock has four children, including a daughter named Kiara.
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Gilda Haddock is friends with another well-known Puerto Rican actress, Giselle Blondet, who, in 2017, convinced Gilda Haddock to relocate near Blondet, to Miami, Florida.