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Has a daughter Patricia (born c.1951). Also has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Bernard was married to the producer, writer and director Jorge Gonçalvez; and to Horacio Zelada, who was president of the Argentina Association of Broadcasters.

In 2010, Hilda was honored by the Municipality at a ceremony held at the Teatro Roma, earning the María Guerrero Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hilda had two siblings: Raquel and Jorge, who went on to play professional rugby.

She was the daughter of an English father and Austrian mother,.

She also made a successful transition to theatre productions, among others appearing in Amanda Viale.

She first starred in Argentine cinema in 1952, in Don Napy's Mala Gent.

In 1942, Bernard entered the world of radio, signing on with the Radio El Mundo network, where she appeared in several serials acting with actors such as Oscar Casco, Eduardo Rudy, and Fernando Siro. Her voice gained further recognition in programs such as No quiero vivir así and Alguien para querer.

In 1941, a young Hilda appeared in her first job as a member of the Cervantes National Theater, first as a pastry saleswoman in the play Martín Fierro, also appearing as a 'young lady' directed by Orestes Caviglia or Enrique de Rosas.

After graduating from high school, a young Hilda attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art; but she soon decided to leave the school, opting to begin to study acting under the tutelage of such now legendary Argentine playwrights/acting coaches such as actor and director Antonio Cunill Cabanellas and actress María Rosa Gallo.

She was nominated for the Martín Fierro Award as Best Actress in a TV Film and/or Miniseries for her work in Dromo, playing the part of the mentally ill mother of actress Chunchuna Villafañe.

In October 2010, after the death of the young actress Romina Yan, who died of a heart attack in September 2010. Bernard, who had worked with Yan, had appeared very saddened, crying while speaking to the media. Appearing inconsolable, she said, "Life is not fair, It should have killed me. I am 90; but not Romina, she was very young and had three children, this is not fair.".

On October 29, 2020, she turned one hundred years old, becoming the longest-lived actress in the Argentine showbusines.

In September 2020, at the age of ninety-nine, she contracted the COVID-19 virus but managed to recover satisfactorily.

Hilda Bernard was an Argentine actress. She had an extensive career on television, film, stage, and radio.

In the early years of Argentine television she appeared in Esos que dicen amarse, a production directed by Alberto Migré that gained great media interest and culminated in a national tour promoting the show.

Bernard participated in a children's series, Cris Morena's Chiquititas, which ran from 1995 to 2001.

In 2011, Bernard, at 90 years old, continued to work and stayed in shape. She cycled three times a week, took regular walks outdoors and regularly read novels, while working on and studying scripts, as she was quoted as a reporter in an interview conducted by the news Telenoche.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Bernard began appearing in acting roles more suited to her age, and was called to appear in several episodes of TV series such as Celeste, in 172 episodes opposite actress Andrea del Boca. Following Celeste, she starred as Elisabetta di Velletra in Cosecharás tu siembra (You Reap What You Sow), (1991); and as Madame Guerrero in Manuela, which was shot in Italy.

She recovered from a stroke in 2014, with no major recurrences, and survived COVID-19 in 2020.