Despite the fact that more than 17 years have passed since the first airing of “Passion of Hawks”, those who saw the Colombian telenovela still remember with fondness and nostalgia the story of impossible love between the Elizondo sisters and Reyes brothersAlthough it played the lead role Danna Garcia Mario Cimarro Paola Rey Juan Alfonso Baptista Natasha Klauss and Michel Brown, there are other actors who also won the audience’s admiration. One of them is Kristina Lilley
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In the plot, the actress gave life to Gabriela Acevedo Vda. by Elizondo, one of the villains in the series. She was a conservative, strict and strong-willed woman who sought the best for her daughters Norma, Sarita and Jimena. She was the wife of Bernardo Elizondo and hated the Reyes brothers for what they had done to avenge the death of their sister Libia.
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Although Lilley had a long history in the acting world, her career took off internationally when she played one of the antagonists., managed to remain in the public’s memory. And it was no less, because the novel became a television phenomenon.
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Because of the fame he gained, she couldn’t think of a better idea than uploading a black and white photo of her to her Instagram account when she was a kid, provoking the reaction of all his followers. “Yes, when I was 3 or 4 years old”he wrote next to the picture.
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HIS LIFE AFTER “PASSION OF GAVILANES”
After her participation in “Pasión de gavilanes”, Kristina was part of the cast of nearly 30 productions such as “The woman in the mirror”, “The storm”, “Who killed Patricia Soler?”, “The commander”, ” The General Naranjo ”,“ Analía’s Revenge ”,“ Enfermeras ”, among others, which won her the TV and Novelas Award in 2011 as the best antagonistic telenovela actress for“ Chepe Fortuna ”.
However, her professional life, which gave her satisfaction, was different from her personal life, because the actress went through very difficult and complicated moments because had cancer twice, something that she hid for years because – according to her – she didn’t want to feel sorry for anyone, so she continued recording other projects as if nothing happened.
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But when the doctors told me I needed treatment, she was shocked. “I cried a lot and then I started to face what I had to do to get out of this (…). Knowing that you are vulnerable is very scary. Today I think we shouldn’t get angry about what doesn’t matter, because what has a solution is done and what isn’t, there’s nothing to do. You really don’t have to worry, but you have to deal with life “, it counted in RCN.
In this regard, he admitted that he now sees life differently, though he sometimes fears the possibility that the disease will return.
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