Itatí Cantoral
Encyclopedia
Itatí Cantoral, is a Mexican
actress.
and songwriter
, Roberto Cantoral
, and Argentine
actress of Italian descent, Itatí Zucchi.
A child actress, at 13, Cantoral was accepted into the Televisa
actors' academy, Centro de Educación Artística
, and made her television
debut in the show La telaraña. Later, acting in Mexico's telenovela
Muchachitas
, led to work in theatre.
with Puerto Rican Erik Estrada
, Laura León
, Bibi Gaytán
, Lorena Herrera
, Selena Quintanilla, Jorge Salinas
, and members of Grupo Bronco
. This production exposed her to wider audiences in Mexico and Latin America.
She took the role of the villainous Soraya Montenegro de la Vega in "Maria la del Barrio
" in 1995/6, acting with Thalia Sodi
and Fernando Colunga
; although 20 at the time of shooting, she portrayed the part of Soraya Montenegro de la Vega from the age of 18 to 38. TV appearances in 1996/97 were for Tú y yo, acting with Maribel Guardia
and Joan Sebastian
, and Salud, dinero y amor, the sequel to another Mexican telenovela, El premio mayor.
In 2001, Cantoral played the female villain "Raquel Villavicencio" in Televisa
's Sin Pecado Concebido, a production that included Angelica Rivera
, and Carlos Ponce
. She played in the Brazilian production Vale todo in 2002, and in 2003, Telemundo
's El alma herida, as a teenage girl who crosses the Mexican-US
border to find her long-lost mother. In 2004, she was Sally Bowles
in Mexico City's Teatro Insurgentes production of Cabaret
, and in 2006, starred with Francisco Gattorno
in the Telemundo production of Julio Jimenez
's La Viuda de Blanco
, (Blanco's Widow,) the story of a beautiful woman unjustly imprisoned, returning to Trinidad in search of, and to reclaim, her past.
, her future husband, during the filming of De Frente al Sol, a telenovela produced by Carla Estrada
.
They married in 2000, and she gave birth to twin boys in 2001. In early 2004 they announced their separation; a divorce was finalized six months later.
While working on "La Viuda de Blanco" she began a personal association with producer Carlos Alberto Cruz; they legalized their relationship in a private ceremony.
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Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
actress.
Early life and education
Cantoral is the daughter of Mexican composerComposer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, Roberto Cantoral
Roberto Cantoral
Roberto Cantoral Garcia was a Mexican composer, singer and songwriter. He was known for composing a string of hit Mexican songs, including El Triste, Al Final, La Barca and El Reloj...
, and Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
actress of Italian descent, Itatí Zucchi.
A child actress, at 13, Cantoral was accepted into the Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
actors' academy, Centro de Educación Artística
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa is an entertainment educational institution in Latin America. It was founded on September 26, 1978 and it is located in the facilities of Televisa San Ángel in Mexico City....
, and made her television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
debut in the show La telaraña. Later, acting in Mexico's telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Muchachitas
Muchachitas
Muchachitas is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced for Televisa by Emilio Larrosa, who also wrote the script during 1991 and 1992. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s, and featured young up-and-coming actors who later became stars.-Full cast:* Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica...
, led to work in theatre.
Career
In 1993, Cantoral appeared in Dos mujeres, un caminoDos mujeres, un camino
Dos mujeres, un camino is a Mexican telenovela, produced by Televisa, which originally aired from August 2, 1993, to July 1, 1994, on Canal de las Estrellas...
with Puerto Rican Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American police officer and actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...
, Laura León
Laura León
Rebeca Valderrama , better known by her stage name Laura León, is a Mexican actress and singer. She is often referred to as "La Tesorito" since that is a term of endearment she uses for people. León resided for many years in Mexico City where she starred in several telenovelas for Televisa...
, Bibi Gaytán
Bibi Gaytán
Bibí Gaytán was born January 27, 1972 in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Three of her four brothers are in show business: musician Chacho Gaytán, actor Alejandro Gaytan, and singer Mano Gaytan...
, Lorena Herrera
Lorena Herrera
Lorena Herrera is a Mexican actress.- Biography :Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became highly successful in Mexico, and gained an international reputation, posing for advertiments in Mexico and South America...
, Selena Quintanilla, Jorge Salinas
Jorge Salinas
Jorge Salinas Pérez is a Mexican television and film actor, best known for his leading roles in telenovelas.-Career:His first participation on screen was in the movie Viva El Chubasco, next to Antonio Aguilar and Eulalio Gonzalez...
, and members of Grupo Bronco
Grupo Bronco
Grupo Bronco is a Mexican Grupero group from Apodaca, N.L.. Bronco's modern take on the Norteño style in the '80s and '90s helped earn them a number of international hits...
. This production exposed her to wider audiences in Mexico and Latin America.
She took the role of the villainous Soraya Montenegro de la Vega in "Maria la del Barrio
María la del Barrio
María la del barrio is the 3rd telenovela of Thalía from the trilogy of 'Maria'. Is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Iran Eory and the youngest actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides...
" in 1995/6, acting with Thalia Sodi
Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda , known simply by the mononym Thalía , is a Mexican singer and actress. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide...
and Fernando Colunga
Fernando Colunga
Fernando Colunga is a Mexican actor known for his work in Mexican telenovelas....
; although 20 at the time of shooting, she portrayed the part of Soraya Montenegro de la Vega from the age of 18 to 38. TV appearances in 1996/97 were for Tú y yo, acting with Maribel Guardia
Maribel Guardia
Maribel del Rocío Fernández García is a Costa Rican actress, who works in Mexico, and currently lives and resides in Miami, Florida.-Miss Universe and Miss World:...
and Joan Sebastian
Joan Sebastian
Joan Sebastian is a popular Mexican singer and songwriter. He has composed hundreds of songs and been a regular staple on the top-40 charts in Mexico since his career began in 1977. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music...
, and Salud, dinero y amor, the sequel to another Mexican telenovela, El premio mayor.
In 2001, Cantoral played the female villain "Raquel Villavicencio" in Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
's Sin Pecado Concebido, a production that included Angelica Rivera
Angélica Rivera
Angélica Rivera Hurtado is a Mexican telenovela actress, wife of Enrique Peña Nieto.-Early life:Rivera was born to a family of six brothers. One day she found out that actress Verónica Castro was filming a video in the street and she decided to snoop around...
, and Carlos Ponce
Carlos Ponce
Carlos Armando Ponce, Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce continued to expand his acting career by participating in various American television...
. She played in the Brazilian production Vale todo in 2002, and in 2003, Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
's El alma herida, as a teenage girl who crosses the Mexican-US
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
border to find her long-lost mother. In 2004, she was Sally Bowles
Sally Bowles
Sally Bowles is a fictional character created by Christopher Isherwood. She originally appeared in Isherwood's 1937 novella Sally Bowles published by Hogarth Press. The story was later republished in the novel Goodbye to Berlin...
in Mexico City's Teatro Insurgentes production of Cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
, and in 2006, starred with Francisco Gattorno
Francisco Gattorno
Francisco Alejandro Gattorno Sánchez , better known in the show business world plainly as Francisco Gattorno, is a Cuban actor. He owns property in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida.-Biography:...
in the Telemundo production of Julio Jimenez
Julio Jimenez (writer)
Julio Jiménez is a Colombian writer of telenovelas for RTI Colombia.-His telenovelas:Julio Jiménez has written numerous telenovelas including:...
's La Viuda de Blanco
La Viuda de Blanco
La Viuda de Blanco is a 1996 Colombian telenovela hit which starred Osvaldo Ríos, María Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello, and Yolandita Monge. Its remake, titled the same, premiered on July 24, 2006 on Telemundo. Both versions were produced by Telemundo Studios Miami...
, (Blanco's Widow,) the story of a beautiful woman unjustly imprisoned, returning to Trinidad in search of, and to reclaim, her past.
Personal life
Cantoral met Eduardo SantamarinaEduardo Santamarina
Eduardo Santamarina is a Mexican film, theater, and television actor.- Acting career :Santamarina took acting classes at the Centro de Educación Artística in Mexico City from 1989–1991. He made his acting debut in 1992 on the set of the telenovela De Frente al Sol, produced by Carla Estrada...
, her future husband, during the filming of De Frente al Sol, a telenovela produced by Carla Estrada
Carla Estrada
Carla Estrada is one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.On 2005 the Mexican government decided to place a statue of the producer in one of Mexico City's most important parks and on January, 2007 she appeared on People En Españols list of The 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the...
.
They married in 2000, and she gave birth to twin boys in 2001. In early 2004 they announced their separation; a divorce was finalized six months later.
While working on "La Viuda de Blanco" she began a personal association with producer Carlos Alberto Cruz; they legalized their relationship in a private ceremony.
Productions
- 1986: La telaraña
- 1991: MuchachitasMuchachitasMuchachitas is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced for Televisa by Emilio Larrosa, who also wrote the script during 1991 and 1992. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s, and featured young up-and-coming actors who later became stars.-Full cast:* Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica...
Lucía - 1991: La pícara soñadoraLa Pícara soñadoraLa Pícara soñadora is a 1956 Argentine film....
- 1992: De frente al sol Lupita
- 1993: Dos mujeres, un caminoDos mujeres, un caminoDos mujeres, un camino is a Mexican telenovela, produced by Televisa, which originally aired from August 2, 1993, to July 1, 1994, on Canal de las Estrellas...
Graciela - 1994: Mujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida realMujer, casos de la vida real is a television show produced by Hispanic television Televisa for Canal de las Estrellas. The show first aired after the Mexican earthquake of 1985 as a method to assist victims of the natural disaster...
(3 episodes, 1994–1996) - 1995: María la del BarrioMaría la del BarrioMaría la del barrio is the 3rd telenovela of Thalía from the trilogy of 'Maria'. Is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Iran Eory and the youngest actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides...
Soraya Montenegro de la Vega MontalbanSoraya Montenegro de la Vega MontalbanSoraya Montenegro de la Vega Montalban is a fictional character in the television series María la del Barrio. She is widely known as the most memorable antagonist of the series. She appeared during most of the program and was portrayed by Itatí Cantoral... - 1996: Tu y yoTú y Yo"Tú Y Yo" is the first single from Thalía's 2002 selftitled album Thalía. The song was written by Estéfano and Julio Reyes, and produced by Estéfano. The English version can be heard in the EA Sports game, NASCAR 07...
Casandra - 1996: BonitaBonitaBonita is a feminine given name as well as a word meaning "pretty, nice" in Spanish and Portuguese.Bonita may refer to:People* Bonita Granville, American actress and producer* Bonnie Langford, English actress...
- 1997: Salud, dinero y amor
- 1998: ¿Qué nos pasa?
- 1999: Cuento de Navidad Guest at Jaime's party
- 1999: Infierno en el Paraíso Francesca Paoli Prado
- 2001: Amigas y rivalesAmigas y rivalesAmigas y rivales is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001.- Plot :Amigas y Rivales tells the story of four women from different social backgrounds...
- 2001: Sin pecado concebido Raquel Villavicencio Rojas [de Martorel]
- 2002: Vale todo Raquel
- 2002: De cuando el pescado murio de placer Conductora de television
- 2003: El alma herida Eugenia Granados
- 2003: La hija del caníbal Airline saleswoman #1 Lucía, Lucía
- 2003: Ya no los hacen como antes Perla
- 2004: Man on FireMan on FireMan on Fire is a 1981 thriller novel by the English novelist Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell. The plot features his popular character Creasy, an American-born former member of the French Foreign Legion, in his first appearance.-Plot:...
Evelyn - 2005: Una segunda oportunidad
- 2005: DecisionesDecisionesDecisiones is a Telemundo-produced Spanish-language television anthology of steamy melodramas about passion and sex in the modern world. The hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points...
- 2006: Cansada de besar sapos Cecilia
- 2006: Los pajarracos Fina
- 2006: No hay derecho joven Abogada
- 2007: La Viuda de BlancoLa Viuda de BlancoLa Viuda de Blanco is a 1996 Colombian telenovela hit which starred Osvaldo Ríos, María Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello, and Yolandita Monge. Its remake, titled the same, premiered on July 24, 2006 on Telemundo. Both versions were produced by Telemundo Studios Miami...
Alicia Guardiola - 2007: One Long Night Patty
- 2008: Tiempo final Silvia
- 2008: Mujeres Asesinas (Mexico) Sandra Luisa Arvide
- 2009: AmarAmarAmar may refer to:* Amar , a 1954 Hindi-language Indian film* Ludu Daw Amar , Burmese writer* "Amar" , a song by 2B, which represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005* Amar, India, a village in Gujarat...
Lisa - 2009: Hasta Que El Dinero Nos SepareHasta Que El Dinero Nos SepareHasta Que el Dinero Nos Separe is a telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa. It is a remake of the Colombian soap opera Hasta Que la Plata Nos Separe. Hasta Que el Dinero Nos Separe stars Itatí Cantoral, Pedro Fernández, Victor Noriega, Luz Elena González and Joana Benedek...
Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo - 2011: El Sexo DébilEl Sexo DébilEl Sexo Débil is a Mexican Spanish language telenovela produced by Argos Television for Cadena Tres and Sony Pictures Television for Cadena Tres. It stars Itatí Cantoral, Mauricio Ochmann, Khotan Fernández, Raul Mendez, Pablo Cruz and Arturo Rios...
Helena Román
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