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Mayte Vilán

Cuban actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6798017
Source-derived summary

Mayte Vilán (born October 5, 1970) is a Cuban-born actress, who has starred in both English-language and Spanish-language television and film. She played Yolanda in the 1996 film Azúcar Amarga, and starred in Colombia the television series Sofía dame tiempo and Mesa para tres, she also starred the 2007 series Pecados Ajenos. Mayte went to Hialeah High School in Florida.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mayte Vilán” as cuban actress. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mayte, Vilán and Cuban.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1996, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-11-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mayte, Vilán and Cuban providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mayte Vilán”, the useful work is to connect “cuban actress” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6798017. VIAF identifies the subject as 66081331. The Library of Congress control number is no97079682. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1996 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Mayte Vilán” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.