Actress and producer Intruders (America TV) Mercedes Portillo It was found Admitted to intensive careis fighting for his life due to bilateral pneumonia which has worsened his delicate health condition.
“Its development within the first 48 hours of treatment is key at this time Its organs are complex. There are also kidney complications, which can cause dialysis treatment. “We are waiting…” Rodrigo Lucic said on Tuesday about the health of his partner and close friend of more than three decades.
He added: “When we returned from Jujuy a few days ago, Mish decomposed. She is suffering from bilateral pneumonia, which puts her in critical condition and in intensive care. She is intubated on a ventilator and is fighting for her life at this moment.”
Portillo currently works as a producer for the popular show series and is also part of the team of Lussich and Adrián Pallares, who this year debuted their own stage show Nude partners. The TV duo is scheduled to perform on November 28 at the First Theater in Buenos Aires, which is now in doubt due to Portillo’s delicate health condition.
“Today we don’t know, we don’t have the ability to make a decision, it will depend on his development,” admitted Lucic, looking pained.
“Mitchie” Portillo began working in the mid-1990s alongside Mariana Briske (1965-2014) as her personal assistant.
She then began performing in various theatrical productions in the Buenos Aires underground, which led her to work under the tutelage of famous directors such as Brisque, Pompeu Audifert, and Ricardo Bartes, among others.
She began her career as an audiovisual media producer at GP Producciones, headed by Gastón Portal.
It was part of Forgive our sins (PNP), an archive program led by Raúl Portal and Mariana Fabiani.
And then in the program RSM (2005-2011), also Fabiani cycle, on America TV.
She also worked as a producer for various courses of Samuel Chiche Gelblung and on the Telebajocero web portal, in collaboration with her friend Lussich, with whom she would later continue View partners (Thirteen) and intruders, The Lussich-Pallares duo will return to América TV in 2025.
As an actress, she recently had a small role in gate 7, Netflix fantasy that premiered in 2020.
And in 2024 Portillo scored Participation in the second season of fantasy In the mud, Which will premiere on Netflix in 2026.
“She played a character with continuity, like one of the prisoners… Initially she cast the character that Juana Molina played in the first season. It wasn’t a good fit, but the people at Underground (the project’s producer) liked her and created a character for her for the second season, something smaller but with continuity called E.T.,” Lucic elaborated on her friend’s latest project.
He wished: “I ask God that I can see it, that it be visible. That it has its moment, the press, the campaign, the image… everything that a series premiere of this size means. And that I can enjoy it.”
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