title: Amparo Guillén
text: # Amparo Guillén
  
  Amparo Guillén is an Ecuadorian actress. Her best-known role was as Lupita, the mother of the Vera household in the Ecuadorian sitcom Mis adorables entenados [es].
  
  ## Biography
  
  Guillén took an interest in singing and acting from a young age and at 23 began her career in the field by joining a theater group. She debuted as a television actress in the Ecuavisa telenovela Por amor propio.
  
  ### Mis adorables entenados
  
  As a member of the theater group La Mueca, Guillén met and befriended the actors Oswaldo Segura [es], Sandra Pareja, Héctor [es] and Andrés Garzón [es], and Richard Barker [es]. Together, they performed in the stage productions Maestra Vida and Mis adorables entenados [es] in 1988. The next year, Ecuavisa brought the production to television and Guillén played the mother of the eponymous Vera family, who struggled to raise her step-children. Guillén participated in the series's entire run, 1989 to 1991. In 2016, she had reunions with the rest of the cast in Ecuador and the United States.
  
  ### Personal life
  
  Amparo Guillén was sexually assaulted at ages six and fourteen, causing her to fall into substance abuse for the next 21 years of her life. Guillén kept her addiction secret, but reached a crisis when she sent her daughter, then nine years old, to study in the United States. She sought help and, at age 41, defeated her addiction and now speaks publicly to young people about the dangers of substance abuse.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * 1 2 "AMPARO GUILLÉN: "Se llega al alcohol y las drogas por la familia"". Revista Vive (in Spanish). August 13, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  * ↑ "Mis adorables entenados vuelve al teatro después de 28 años". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). March 31, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  