María de los Ángeles Vera Montecoral (born 19 August 1940), known professionally as Pelusa Vera, is a Uruguayan actress, considered "one of the most prominent figures of theater and television in Uruguay." She began her career as a model, but then went to the theater and from there to television. She also ventured into radio. She was part of the cast of both Uruguayan and Argentine humor shows, such as , Teatro como en el teatro, Decalegrón, , , and Zapping. She has received several awards and acted in several countries in Latin America and Europe. In 2010 she received an ex gratia pension "in virtue of services rendered to the national culture." Career His father, Dionisio Alejandro Vera, was a journalist for the newspaper El País, editor of a feature called "Filosofía de los lagartos". When Vera was about 15 years old, she started working at the Club de Teatro with Antonio Larreta, and began modeling. She acted at the and at the University Theater, in plays by Peter Shaffer and Charles Dyer, among others. She was one of the first to appear on television in Uruguay, working for the three private channels (4, 10, and 12) in programs, commercials, and parades between 1957 and 1964. She made her radio debut in the series Radioteatro de las Estrellas, in radio plays of the Radio Nacional studio at Palacio Salvo. In 1962 she made her debut in , a Uruguayan humor program that was also broadcast in Argentina. In 1964 Vera traveled to Europe as a correspondent for the newspaper El País in Germany. At the same time she continued to work as a model for international magazines such as Für Sie and advertising agencies. Later she traveled to France, still as a correspondent for El País, while doing various jobs. She entered the University of the Theater of Nations, touring the university together with the Spanish director Víctor García, with whom she founded El Retablo, the first Spanish-speaking theater in Paris. The first play shown in the former Grand Guignol Theater was Historias para ser contadas by Osvaldo Dragún. The cabaret "La Fontaine de quatre saisons" also reopened, showing La Rosa de papel by Ramón del Valle-Inclán. In 1966 she returned to South America, working in theater and television in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. From then until 1992 she was a fixture on the programs that followed Telecataplúm in