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Johanna Rosaly (born January 13, 1948) is a Puerto
Rican actress and singer. She was born in the San
Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan area known as Santurce,
which was also the birthplace to such other famous
Puerto Rican entertainers as Andy Montañez and
Cano Estremera.

At the age of eight, she began to take acting
class with Luis A. Negro, and dancing class with
Beatriz Trujillo.

In 1957, she made her acting debut at Teatro
Tapia, in a play named Mientras los Ninos Juegan
(While the Children Play). That same year, she
debuted on television, with Telemundo Puerto
Rico|channel 2's production of Los Amigos de
Pinocho (Pinocho's Friends).

Rosaly began to take singing class when she became
a young teenager. Then, she participated in such
plays as My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music, the
latter of which allowed her to share the stage
with another Puerto Rican acting legend, Camille
Carrion (who is the sister of Richard Carrion).

Rosaly went to college and then participated in
the Telenovela named El Retrato de Angela (Angelas
Photo). In this soap opera, she played a mute
girl.

Soon she married Jose Gilberto Molinary, with whom
she had 2 sons and a daughter. Her daughter,
Alfonsina Molinary, went on to become a famous
actress herself in 1989; when she was the star of
television comedy Maripili, a show that resembled
Clarissa Explains it All in format, and a famous
opera singer in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania|Philadelphia.

Rosaly made a number of soap operas in the 1970s.
However, the one she is remembered most for, and
the one that helped her internationalize as a
singer and actress was 1978's Cristina Bazan,
alongside José Luis Rodríguez El Puma|José Luis
Rodríguez and Adamari Lopez among others. 

She signed with Velvet Records soon after, and
began touring all over Latin America, to promote
her two albums under that label. She also attained
considerable fame in Spain. Later, she would sign
with CBS International and record two more albums
for them.

Rosaly would soon move from Telemundo Puerto Rico
to WAPA-TV. There, she participated in three other
soap operas. By 1980, rumors of a romance with
world boxing champion Wilfredo Gomez ran across
Puerto Rico.

As the 1980s went along, Rosaly began to retire
from acting in soap operas and became a television
interviewer and show host, back at her original
channel of Telemundo Puerto Rico, then known only
as Telemundo Canal 2. In 1989, she acted alongside
Tommy Muniz in Jacobo Morales' Lo que le Paso a
Santiago, which was nominated for an Academy
Award|Oscar as best foreign film..

During the 1990s, she dedicated much of her career
to acting in various critically acclaimed theater
plays. But she also made two more movies: 1993's
Shortcut to Paradise, and 1994's Linda Sara,
alongside Chayanne and Dayanara Torres.

She has received multiple honors, among them, the
Puerto Rican Culture Institute (ICP), dedicated
their 1997 film festival to her, honoring her 40
years as an actress.