Early years

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Croatto is the daughter of 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 Raquel Montero and Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

-Uruguayan

Uruguayan people

Uruguayan people or Uruguayans are the citizens of Uruguay, or its descendants abroad. Uruguay is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many different ethnical backgrounds...

 folk singer, Tony Croatto

Tony Croatto

Hermes Davide Fastino Croatto Martinis, better known as Tony Croatto was an Italian singer and composer best known for his interpretations of Puerto Rican folk music. He was also a television presenter.-Biography:Born in Attimis, a comune in the province of Udine, Italy...

. Croatto's parents moved and resettled in Puerto Rico shortly after her birth. She was raised and educated in San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

. When Croatto was 11 years old, she attended the D'Rose Modeling School, where she took modeling classes. She is an alumna of the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro in Miramar. Croatto always considers herself a Puerto Rican and publicly identifies herself as such.

Acting career

Croatto started her acting career as a narrator in El Show de Shows (The Show of Shows) which aired locally on Channel 11. She also worked as a dancer on such television shows Juventud 83 and Juventud 84 during her adolescence.

During her early adulthood, she won a small part on the television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 show La Pension de Doña Tere (Mrs. Tere Boardinghouse) starring Norma Candal

Norma Candal

Norma Candal , was an actress and comedian who was best known for her role as "Petunia".-Early years:Candal was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and lived with her family in the Fajardo Sugar Co. sugar plantation where her father was an accountant...

. That year, she also worked in her first mini soap opera in which the members of Menudo

Menudo (band)

Menudo was a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Díaz, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Latin American teen musical group of the era....

 participated. Her character was that of the sister of Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

 who happened to be in love with Robby Rosa.

Her first important role in a soap opera was in Cisne Blanco (White Swan) with Deborah Carthy-Deu

Deborah Carthy-Deu

Deborah Fátima Carthy-Deu in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She became the second Miss Universe from Puerto Rico. The contest was held at James L. Knight Center of Miami, Florida on July 15, 1985.-Early years:...

. Among the other soap operas in which she has participated are :

• Valeria
  Valeria (telenovela)
  Valeria is a Miami, Florida-based Spanish language telenovela produced by Venevisión Productions. Began airing on Univision on March 10, 2009 at the 2pm/1c timeslot. It has 174 episodes and completed filming in September 2008, it was first released in June 2008 in Ecuador and finished in February...
  
  2008, Estrella Granados -Venevision-
• La ley del silencio 2005, Isabel -Venevision-
• Amor descarado 2003, Chantal
• Gata Salvaje
  Gata Salvaje
  Gata Salvaje was a telenovela which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela on May 16, 2002 and some days later was released on the Spanish station Univision from mid-summer of 2002 until May 2003, and later aired in Mexico on El Canal De Las Estrellas from January 2003 to December 2003...
  
  2002-2003, Eduarda Arismendi
• Me muero por ti 1999, Helena
• La Mujer de Mi Vida 1998, Katiuska Cardona - Venevision-Fonovideo
• Aguamarina 1997, Verona Calatrava
• Morelia
  Morelia
  Morelia is a city and municipality in the north central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. The city is in the Guayangareo Valley and is the capital of the state. The main pre-Hispanic cultures here were the P'urhépecha and the Matlatzinca, but no major cities were founded in the...
  
  1995 , Sarah (Special performance)
• Guadalupe 1993-1994, Diana Zambrano
• Marielena
  Marielena
  Marielena was a Spanish-language telenovela written by Delia Fiallo. It premiered on Telemundo in 1992, and starred Lucía Méndez and Eduardo Yáñez. To date, it is the most successful telenovela that Telemundo has ever shown on their programming schedule with very high ratings for that time, and the...
  
  1992 , Graciela (Special performance)
• Pobre diabla
  Pobre Diabla
  Pobre Diabla is a telenovela by TV Azteca in partnership with Venevision Continental, produced by Fides Velasco and starring Alejandra Lazcano, the presentation of Cristobal Lander in Mexico, Hector Arredondo, Leonardo Daniel, Rafael Sanchez Navarro and antagonistic involvement of Claudia Alvarez...
  
  1990
• Maria Maria
  Maria Maria
  "Maria Maria" is a song by Santana featuring The Product G&B. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for ten weeks on April 8, 2000...
  
  1989 , Julia

Personal

She presently resides in Miami with her husband, Mexican

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....

 actor José Ángel Llamas

Jose Angel Llamas

José Ángel Llamas Olmos is a Mexican actor best known for his roles of Rudolfo in Amor descarado. His striking good looks make him quite the heart throb among his many fans....

, who she married in August 2004. They have a son, Rafael, and she has two sons, Juan Alejandro and Michael Gabriel, from her previous marriage to Rey Rosselló, who is the brother of former Menudo bandmember Roy Rosselló

Roy Rosselló

Roy Stephan Rosello Diaz is a former member of Menudo.Rosselló was a member of Menudo from mis 1983 to January 1986. He substituted Miguel Cancel and debuted in the album A Todo Rock. He was replaced by Sergio Blass in 1986. Rosselló did not contribute a lot of lead singing for Menudo. Most of...

, and the nephew of former Puerto Rican governor Pedro Rosselló

Pedro Rosselló

Pedro Juan Rosselló González, M.D., , is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the sixth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001...

.

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans

External links