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Andrea del Boca (born 18 October 1965, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress and subsequently became popular in the 1980s and 1990s for her roles in telenovelas, such as Estrellita mía, Celeste, Antonella and Perla negra. She has also appeared in numerous films and several theatre productions. Del Boca has won three Martín Fierro Awards. Career Del Boca made her debut as a four-year-old in the TV series Nuestra galleguita where she played a deaf-mute girl. In 1970, she started to play in the series Alta comedia and won the prestigious Martín Fierro Award for 1971 in the Revelación category, an equivalent of the Best New Artist. In 1972, she appeared in her first film, Había una vez un circo, alongside a trio of popular clowns called Los Payasos de la Tele. She achieved a wide popularity in Argentina at the age of seven when she played the part of a little orphan Pinina in Papá corazón on Canal 13 in 1973. In the same year she appeared in the film Andrea, followed by a film adaptation of Papá corazón in 1974, Papá Corazón se quiere casar, and Un mundo de amor (A World of Love) in 1975. From 1979 to 1980 she played the leading role in the telenovela Andrea Celeste with Alberto Argibay, Ana María Picchio and Raúl Taibo, and subsequently in Señorita Andrea, both broadcast on Argentine public television ATC. In the same year, she released her first music album. She then appeared in a number of TV miniseries on ATC throughout 1981. In 1982, she played the lead in Cien días de Ana alongside actor and singer Silvestre, and relocated to New York to study acting. In the following years, she took part in several theatrical productions. In 1987, she returned in the telenovela Estrellita mía on the Telefe network, with Ricardo Darín as her partner. She recorded two music albums for Warner Music Group, Con amor and Te amo, released in 1988 and 1989, respectively. In 1991, Del Boca played the title role in Celeste on Canal 13, alongside Gustavo Bermúdez. The telenovela was one of the precursors in the genre addressing such topics as HIV/AIDS and homosexuality, and was popular with the TV audience. In 1992, she starred in Antonella, again accompanied by Bermúdez. In this series, she contributed the theme song "Para este amor" and portrayed a charismatic heroine, very different from the ones she had played in previous telenovelas.