Susy Díaz's Biography: from the 13 on her body to Congress

Painting your list number on your body and ending up passing thirty laws is a sequence with only one case in Peruvian politics. Susy Díaz reached Congress in 1995 with 10,280 votes and a campaign that scandalised the country, and she left five years later with a legislative record that very few of her critics reviewed. At 63 she is still one of the most recognisable figures on Peruvian television, and in 2026 she came close to returning to the ballot. Here you will find her story with the verified facts: where she came from, what she really did in Congress and what she is up to now.

Who is Susy Díaz?

Susy Díaz is a Peruvian presenter, singer-songwriter and former congresswoman born on September 28, 1963 in Lima. She was a showgirl and a television figure before being elected congresswoman for Lima in 1995, a post she held until the year 2000. Her campaign with the number 13 painted on her body is one of the most memorable in the country.

Susy Díaz's personal details

Field: Detail

Full name: Susana Ivonne Díaz Díaz

Stage name: Susy Díaz

Date of birth: September 28, 1963

Place of birth: Lima, Peru

Age (2026): 63 years old

Star sign: Libra

Nationality: Peruvian

Occupation: Presenter and former congresswoman

Public office: Congresswoman for Lima (1995-2000)

Votes in 1995: 10,280

Daughter: Flor Polo (1986)

Susy Díaz's childhood and early years

Susana Ivonne Díaz Díaz was born in Lima on September 28, 1963. Before devoting herself to showbusiness she worked as a secretary, a fact she herself has mentioned over the years and that rarely appears in the profiles written about her.

Her entry into the world of showbusiness happened in the eighties, in the circuit of showgirls that then occupied a central place in Peruvian television and popular theatre.

That context matters in order to understand what came afterwards. The showgirl of that era was a very visible but socially underestimated figure, and making the leap from that position to a national representative office was, by the standards of the time, almost unthinkable.

At Famosix it is worth recording the fact as it was: it was not a tolerated exception, but a candidacy that provoked public reactions from religious institutions and from much of the press. The Archbishopric of Lima spoke out about her campaign, and the comparisons with the Italian Cicciolina were constant in the media of the time.

Susy Díaz's professional career

Her career has two clear stages: showbusiness and politics, although in her case they never separated entirely.

In 1995 she ran in the general elections for the Movimiento Independiente Agrario. Her campaign was built around a gesture that became historic: wearing painted on her body the number 13, the one she had been given on the electoral list.

The strategy was, in electoral terms, impeccable. The Peruvian preferential vote forces the voter to remember a number, and hers became impossible to forget. She obtained 10,280 votes and entered Congress as a representative of Lima for the period 1995-2000.

What is usually left out is what she did after entering. During her term she presented 120 bills and got 30 passed, among them initiatives related to computer crime and to tax exemptions for the agricultural sector.

That record deserves context. Thirty laws passed in a single parliamentary term is a figure many congress members with conventional political careers do not reach, and it contrasts completely with the image attributed to her during the campaign.

After leaving Congress she returned on a stable basis to television and showbusiness, where she has kept a continuous presence for more than two decades, as well as developing activity as a singer-songwriter.

That permanence is in itself an uncommon achievement. Peruvian television renews faces quickly and very few figures from the eighties are still appearing on screen forty years later; she is one of the exceptions, and she has managed it by reinventing her character several times.

Main milestones of her career:

• The eighties: she starts her career in Peruvian showbusiness as a showgirl
• 1995: she runs for Congress with the Movimiento Independiente Agrario
• 1995: she is elected congresswoman for Lima with 10,280 votes
• 1995-2000: she presents 120 bills and gets 30 passed
• After the year 2000: she returns permanently to television
• October 2025: she announces a pre-candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies
• October 2025: she declines the candidacy for personal reasons

Her time in Congress in figures

Fact: Detail

Period: 1995-2000

Group: Movimiento Independiente Agrario

Votes obtained: 10,280

Bills presented: 120

Bills passed: 30

Notable topics: Computer crime and exemptions for agriculture

Susy Díaz's personal life

Her relationship with the composer Augusto Polo Campos, one of the major figures of Peruvian criolla music, gave rise to the birth of her daughter Flor Polo in 1986.

Flor Polo later developed a career of her own on Peruvian television, and mother and daughter have been for years one of the pairings most covered by the country's showbusiness press. The relationship between the two, with its public ups and downs, has been a recurring topic on showbusiness programmes for more than a decade.

Susy Díaz has been married twice: to Percy Arévalo, between 1994 and 1998, and to the singer known as Andy V, between 2011 and 2015. Both marriages had wide media coverage.

Her love life has been, for decades, one of the recurring topics of the Peruvian showbusiness press, and she has lived with that exposure without withdrawing from public life at any point.

At Famosix we record only the verifiable facts of her private life. A considerable amount of showbusiness material circulates around her figure, and separating what is documented from what is anecdotal is part of the job.

Fun facts about Susy Díaz

• She worked as a secretary before showbusiness: she did not start on television.
• She painted the number 13 on her body: it was her position on the 1995 electoral list.
• She obtained 10,280 votes: enough to enter Congress for Lima.
• She got 30 laws passed: out of 120 bills presented.
• Her campaign generated reactions from the Archbishopric of Lima: it was a national episode.
• Her daughter Flor Polo is the daughter of Augusto Polo Campos: one of the great criolla composers.
• She came close to returning to politics in 2026: she announced and withdrew her candidacy within days.

Susy Díaz in 2026

Her return to politics came close to happening. In October 2025 she announced that she would be a pre-candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for Somos Perú in the 2026 general elections, and a few days later she announced that she was declining the invitation for personal reasons.

The episode lasted less than a week but it was enough to revive interest in her parliamentary period, and for much of the Peruvian press to review again that record of thirty laws passed.

During 2026 she has kept her usual activity at events and television appearances, as well as having moved house after years sharing a home with her daughter, a matter she herself commented on publicly.

At Famosix we believe her career raises an uncomfortable question about how candidates are judged: the campaign that turned her into an object of mockery was also the most effective of that election, and her legislative output exceeded that of colleagues with much more respectable CVs on paper. You can see more profiles in our ranking of Peruvian celebrities.

Her case also left a practical lesson for later Peruvian campaigns: in a preferential vote system, remembering the number weighs as much as the programme, and many candidates have copied that logic since without acknowledging where it comes from.

Conclusion

Susy Díaz went from showgirl to congresswoman with the most memorable campaign in recent Peruvian politics, and she left Congress with thirty laws passed. At 63 she is still a constant figure on the country's television. At Famosix we follow her activity with the confirmed facts.

Sources consulted

• Infobae: Susy Díaz desmiente su candidatura y explica por qué no volverá a la política
• El Comercio: Augusto Polo Campos designó a Flor Polo como administradora de sus bienes