Ruënna Mercelina - The Beauty Queen with Talent

Ruënna Mercelina

Ruënna Mercelina better known as “Sugar” is an energetic, charismatic, determined and very talented young lady from the Dutch Caribbean country Curaçao. Up until this date she’s the youngest person in national pageantry history of her country to achieve more titles as a teenage girl, and the most accumulated distinctions in the international scene. She’s the titleholder of the Miss Teenager Curaçao, and the Miss Teenager Congeniality of the largest and biggest teenage pageant of the world MISS TEENAGER.

She is a student at the College of the Dutch Caribbean in her last college year pursuing her studies in Marketing and Public Relations.

Her break-through as actress was in a political satire “Fe Lusafe” as main-actress with the aspects of the revolution of the 30th of May 1969 in Curaçao, written, directed and acted by the legendary comedian Eligio Melfor.

She just finished a tour in Aruba with the humoristic play “Gainan Fini” with the main role of a female writer transforming into a homosexual man to write a book of the “gay community” life. She’s starring as one of the main actresses for the international production company Endemol’s new soap-series for Caribbean titled “Ki bo Ke Men?” (What do you mean?).

This weekend she will be the main-hostess of the First Inaugural Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam. The first film festival of such magnitude and scope that ever took place on Curaçao. More than 25 films and 11 ‘shorts’ will be screened in the new six-screen multiplex theater The Cinemas, located in the Otrobanda district of Willemstad, over a four-day period (will be held from March 29 to April 1, 2012.)

Currently she has been chosen to be the main actress of the biggest theatrical play of the year, which will be shown to all youngsters of the Dutch Caribbean nation and will tour through the Dutch Kingdom. Her new challenge is to portray TISHA. 'Tisha' is about a fifteen year old girl who through the play is placed in the most complex choices that will be placed in the area of relationships, pregnancy and the traditions in which she grew up with. The underlying question is whether we can determine our own destiny. Or is our fate already determined?

It is a performance in which tradition, sexual morality and the personal choice is brought at the lighter image. The producer Teatro KadaKen has no ready-made answers, but looks critically and with humor and poetry to the world around us. The play was written by Mr. Albert Schoobaar who also did the successful play “Deconstruction of Edsel K.”, which got nominated for Dutch Royal condecoration of “Appeltjes van Oranje” together with the direction of international Dutch director Sylvia Andringa.

TISHA’s season started in March 2012 and will end in September 2012, the presentations take place in the youth theatre statation “La Tentashon” in Willemstad, Curaçao.

Sugar serves as the teenage female symbol that represents the identity of the Caribbean culture, its grace, sweetness, fierceness, its elegance and its accessible communication. As a beauty ambassador she wants to serve as a role model to inspire other youngsters around the globe to pursue their dreams with passion, focus and respect. She wants to work on the mission to develop the role of youth as new leaders and nation builders through engagement in their community through projects, and as an ambassador of the WE LEAD Foundation she’s currently working on that serving now as the Secretary in the Board of Directors. (www.facebook.com/weleadcuracao)

Her role models are her grandmothers, her mom who she thanks for her talent, perseverance and beauty, Tyra Banks, and Annemarie Braafheid (the former Miss Curaçao 1968/ Miss Universe 1969 First Runner-Up and the first dark skinned woman to attain a high position in the Miss Universe contest).

She hopes one day to represent her country for the Miss Universe crown and make everyone proud by being the first Curaçaolean to win after Verna Vasquez’s victory in the pageant, and to keep on working on her international career as an artist (model & actress).

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