Silvia Legrand

María Aurelia Paula Martínez Suárez, known professionally as Silvia Legrand (born 23 February 1927), is a retired Argentine film actress.

She is the twin sister of actress Mirtha Legrand, with whom she debuted and co-starred in a number of films and sister of director José A. Martínez Suárez. She starred in some 20 films between 1940 and 1972.

Biography

Legrand was born in Villa Cañás, a town in the province of Santa Fe located some 200 km from Rosario. Her parents were both Spanish immigrants, her father the owner of a bookstore and her mother a schoolteacher. In 1934 her parents separated. Her mother relocated to Rosario to ensure a better education for her three children, while her father remained in Villa Cañás.

In Rosario, with her twin sister Mirtha Legrand she took basic courses at the Municipal Theater. After the death of their father in 1936, the family relocated permanently to Buenos Aires, to the barrio of La Paternal. There they lived in poverty, mitigated by sporadic employment, until in 1939 the sisters were offered small roles in a film starring Niní Marshall which would be released in 1940 under the title Hay que educar a Niní.