Cheddy García

She regularly appeared on the Telesistema program Más Roberto hosted by Roberto Salcedo Jr. until 2017. She co-hosted Bien de Bien with Luis Manuel Aguiló [es] and Liondy Ozoria from 2014 to 2019.

She went on to co-host the Soberano Awards with Irving Alberti in 2016.

In 2012, García surprised critics and audiences with her performance in the title role of the feature film drama La lucha de Ana [es]. In it, she plays a humble single mother who seeks justice for the death of her son. Critic José D'Laura wrote, "The pleasant surprise is greater because Cheddy García has made a career in the world of television humor, and her formidable Ana is a totally different acting register than what we are accustomed to."

This role earned her Best Actress honors at the 2012 Soberano Awards, the first La Silla Awards presentation, and the Providence Latin American Film Festival in Rhode Island.

An exponent of Afro-Caribbean poetry, in 2004 she published a book of décimas, La Negrita Carida, with a foreword by writer Mariano Lebrón Saviñón and comedian Freddy Beras-Goico.

Mercedes José García (born 19 February 1970), known as Cheddy García, is a Dominican comedian, actress, writer, and teacher. She has starred in several films, including the title role of La lucha de Ana [es] (2012) – which earned her multiple Best Actress awards – and Los Súper (2013).

Cheddy García was born in Santo Domingo on 19 February 1970. From a poor neighborhood, she was educated in a convent from an early age. She studied pedagogy, initially on a scholarship to the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), but she suffered an emotional crisis due to the breakup of her marriage, which caused her grades to slip. She transferred to the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), keeping many of her existing credits. There, she joined the university's cultural movement and began appearing in theatrical productions.