Romina Yan
Encyclopedia
Romina Yankelevich better known as Romina Yan, was an Argentine
actress, screenwriter
, singer and dancer. She made her television debut in the program Jugate Conmigo
, which followed up with the internationally successful series Chiquititas
, created by her mother Cris Morena
. She died in 2011, aged 36, after suffering a heart attack
.
(née María Cristina de Giaccomi). She was the elder sister of director, producer and screenwriter
Tomás Yankelevich
.
Yan married technical producer Darío Giordano on 27 November 1998. They had three children.
("Come Play With Me"). Two years after that, in 1994, she made her debut as an actress, as "Lorena Picabea" in Mi Cuñado ("My Brother in Law"). Romina Yan continued working as a television actress when she played "Sol Iturbe" in another 1994 show, Quereme ("Love Me").
Towards the end of 1994, her mother was working on a deal with Argentina's largest television company, Telefe
, to create a children's soap opera
. Chiquititas
was the story of a group of orphaned children living in the same house, and Yan played "Belen Fraga", the orphan house's director. Chiquititas catapulted Yan's celebrity status outside Argentina.
She retired from the series in 1998, taking a hiatus before returning to Argentine small screens in 2000, when she played "Jessica" in one chapter of the suspense television program, Tiempo Final ("Final Moment"). She collaborated in 2001 alongside Susana Giménez
in a variety show named after the latter.
She moved to the Argentine Andes
later on that year to participate in her first film, Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz
("Corner of Light"), a movie spin-off of Chiquititas. Yan also participated alongside Araceli Gonzalez
and Puerto Rican
singer Chayanne
in Provocame
("Provoke Me") in 2001. Yan was hired by the Disney Channel
in 2002, to host a children's show, Playhouse Disney
, in Argentina. Playhouse Disney Argentina was produced by RGB, her father's company.
In 2003, she returned to acting, playing "Rocio Mazzini" in a soap opera titled Abre tus Ojos ("Open Your Eyes"). While not her first starring role in a telenovela, "Rocio Mazzini" represented for Yan her first starring role in a telenovela geared towards grown ups. She took a year off before returning to the small screens in Argentina, returning as "Abril Juarez" in 2005's Amor Mio
("My Love"). As of late 2007, she had been working on her mother's latest romantic comedy, Bella & Bestia, along Damián De Santo, whom she already worked with in Amor Mio
.
.
of the day on Twitter. Cris Morena and Chiquititas were also trending topic through the day.
Telefe
, the channel her father was in charge of during the late 1980s and 1990s, canceled its evening schedule. After Casi Angeles, the show produced by her mother, Telefe Noticias, the channel's news program, aired a special 2 hours edition solely dedicated to her. The special achieved 18.3 points, the highest-rated edition of the show in four years.
Canal 13
, Argentina's number 2 net, also had a special 2 hours edition of its news show, Telenoche, which also achieve high ratings. With the exception of the news programs, all live shows in Argentina's biggest networks, Telefe and Canal 13, were not aired in tribute to Yan. The movie The Terminal replaced the live game-show Justo a Tiempo in Telefe. A rerun of Policias en Accion replaced Showmatch in Canal 13.
Argentine people
Argentines are the citizens of Argentina, or their descendants abroad. Argentina is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many different ethnic backgrounds. According to the , Argentina had a population of 36,260,130 inhabitants, of which 1,527,320, or 4.2%, were born...
actress, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, singer and dancer. She made her television debut in the program Jugate Conmigo
Jugate Conmigo
Jugate Conmigo is an hour-long variety show targeted to teenagers aired in Telefe on weekdays at 6 P.M from 1991 to 1993 and at weekdays at 5 P.M. in 1994. It lasted four seasons and was hosted and created by Cris Morena....
, which followed up with the internationally successful series Chiquititas
Chiquititas
Chiquititas was a successful children's musical telenovela from Argentina. Created and produced by Cris Morena and her daughter Romina Yan, it aired on Telefé from 1995 until 2001 .There were two spin-offs: Rincón de Luz, aired in 2003 on Canal 9 and a 2006 season which aired in...
, created by her mother Cris Morena
Cris Morena
María Cristina De Giacomi is an Argentine awarded television producer, actress, television presenter, composer, musician, songwriter, writer, former fashion model and CEO of Cris Morena Group...
. She died in 2011, aged 36, after suffering a heart attack
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
.
Family and personal life
Yan was born to actors, television directors and television producers Gustavo Yankelevich and Cris MorenaCris Morena
María Cristina De Giacomi is an Argentine awarded television producer, actress, television presenter, composer, musician, songwriter, writer, former fashion model and CEO of Cris Morena Group...
(née María Cristina de Giaccomi). She was the elder sister of director, producer and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
Tomás Yankelevich
Tomás Yankelevich
Tomás Yankelevich De Giacomi is an Argentine film director, film producer, screenwriter, television director and television producer. The son of Argentine director, producer and composer Cris Morena and the brother of actress Romina Yan, he debuted as the producer of talents show Popstars, which...
.
Yan married technical producer Darío Giordano on 27 November 1998. They had three children.
Career
Romina Yan's first appearance on Argentine television came during 1991, when the then sixteen year old appeared as a dancer in a show named Jugate ConmigoJugate Conmigo
Jugate Conmigo is an hour-long variety show targeted to teenagers aired in Telefe on weekdays at 6 P.M from 1991 to 1993 and at weekdays at 5 P.M. in 1994. It lasted four seasons and was hosted and created by Cris Morena....
("Come Play With Me"). Two years after that, in 1994, she made her debut as an actress, as "Lorena Picabea" in Mi Cuñado ("My Brother in Law"). Romina Yan continued working as a television actress when she played "Sol Iturbe" in another 1994 show, Quereme ("Love Me").
Towards the end of 1994, her mother was working on a deal with Argentina's largest television company, Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...
, to create a children's soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
. Chiquititas
Chiquititas
Chiquititas was a successful children's musical telenovela from Argentina. Created and produced by Cris Morena and her daughter Romina Yan, it aired on Telefé from 1995 until 2001 .There were two spin-offs: Rincón de Luz, aired in 2003 on Canal 9 and a 2006 season which aired in...
was the story of a group of orphaned children living in the same house, and Yan played "Belen Fraga", the orphan house's director. Chiquititas catapulted Yan's celebrity status outside Argentina.
She retired from the series in 1998, taking a hiatus before returning to Argentine small screens in 2000, when she played "Jessica" in one chapter of the suspense television program, Tiempo Final ("Final Moment"). She collaborated in 2001 alongside Susana Giménez
Susana Giménez
Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....
in a variety show named after the latter.
She moved to the Argentine Andes
Andes
The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...
later on that year to participate in her first film, Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz
Chiquititas: Rincón de luz
Chiquititas: Rincón de luz is a 2001 Argentine adventure film directed by José Luis Massa and written by Alex and Walter Ferrara. The film starred Romina Yan and is a film from the Chiquititas telenovela series which began on Argentine TV in 1995. The film premiered in Argentina on July 12, 2001...
("Corner of Light"), a movie spin-off of Chiquititas. Yan also participated alongside Araceli Gonzalez
Araceli González
Araceli González is an Argentinian fashion model, actress and TV host.She started her performing arts at a young age, after winning a dance tournament at the theater "el Globo Rojo" in the Buenos Aires area, eventually at only 9 years old she was invited by the Cohen Agency to participate in...
and Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
singer Chayanne
Chayanne
Elmer Figueroa Arce , best known under the stage name Chayanne, is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer and actor. As a solo artist, Chayanne has released 21 solo-albums and sold over 20 million albums worldwide.-Early life:...
in Provocame
Provócame
- Chart performance :...
("Provoke Me") in 2001. Yan was hired by the Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
in 2002, to host a children's show, Playhouse Disney
Playhouse Disney
Playhouse Disney was Disney Channel's television block for programs aimed at entertaining preschool aged children, often airing as its own channel outside the United States. It was introduced in 1997 after Disney Channel's move to basic cable from premium cable, with a target audience of children...
, in Argentina. Playhouse Disney Argentina was produced by RGB, her father's company.
In 2003, she returned to acting, playing "Rocio Mazzini" in a soap opera titled Abre tus Ojos ("Open Your Eyes"). While not her first starring role in a telenovela, "Rocio Mazzini" represented for Yan her first starring role in a telenovela geared towards grown ups. She took a year off before returning to the small screens in Argentina, returning as "Abril Juarez" in 2005's Amor Mio
Amor Mío
Amor Mío is a Spanish language comedy telecomedy, produced in Argentina by Telefe and for Mexico by Televisa. This romantic comedy features Abril Juárez and Marcos Sinclair, two singles who are forced to share an apartment in Buenos Aires even though they cannot stand each other...
("My Love"). As of late 2007, she had been working on her mother's latest romantic comedy, Bella & Bestia, along Damián De Santo, whom she already worked with in Amor Mio
Amor Mío
Amor Mío is a Spanish language comedy telecomedy, produced in Argentina by Telefe and for Mexico by Televisa. This romantic comedy features Abril Juárez and Marcos Sinclair, two singles who are forced to share an apartment in Buenos Aires even though they cannot stand each other...
.
Death
Romina Yan died on 28 September 2010, aged 36, after suffering a heart attackMyocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
.
Repercussion
Her death shocked Argentina. The Facebook page I can't believe Romina Yan has died (No puedo creer que murió Romina Yan) reached more than 150,000 members in less than two hours. The death was also the top trending topicTrending topic
A trending topic is a word, phrase or topic that is posted multiple times on the social networking and microblogging service Twitter. Trending topics become popular either through a concerted effort by users or because of an event that prompts people to talk about one specific topic...
of the day on Twitter. Cris Morena and Chiquititas were also trending topic through the day.
Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...
, the channel her father was in charge of during the late 1980s and 1990s, canceled its evening schedule. After Casi Angeles, the show produced by her mother, Telefe Noticias, the channel's news program, aired a special 2 hours edition solely dedicated to her. The special achieved 18.3 points, the highest-rated edition of the show in four years.
Canal 13
Canal 13
Canal 13 is the name of six Central and South American television stations:* Canal 13 , television network from Buenos Aires, Argentina* Canal 13 , television network from Santiago, Chile...
, Argentina's number 2 net, also had a special 2 hours edition of its news show, Telenoche, which also achieve high ratings. With the exception of the news programs, all live shows in Argentina's biggest networks, Telefe and Canal 13, were not aired in tribute to Yan. The movie The Terminal replaced the live game-show Justo a Tiempo in Telefe. A rerun of Policias en Accion replaced Showmatch in Canal 13.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Jugate Conmigo Jugate Conmigo Jugate Conmigo is an hour-long variety show targeted to teenagers aired in Telefe on weekdays at 6 P.M from 1991 to 1993 and at weekdays at 5 P.M. in 1994. It lasted four seasons and was hosted and created by Cris Morena.... |
Herself | (TV Show) (1991–93) |
| 1994 | Quereme | Sol Iturbe | (TV Series) |
| Mi Cuñado | Lorena Picabea | (TV Series) | |
| 1995 | Chiquititas Chiquititas Chiquititas was a successful children's musical telenovela from Argentina. Created and produced by Cris Morena and her daughter Romina Yan, it aired on Telefé from 1995 until 2001 .There were two spin-offs: Rincón de Luz, aired in 2003 on Canal 9 and a 2006 season which aired in... |
Belén Fraga | (TV Series) (1995–98) |
| 1998 | Susana Giménez Susana Giménez Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host.... |
Herself | (TV Programme) |
| 2000 | Tiempo Final | Jéssica | (TV Series) |
| 2001 | Provócame Provócame - Chart performance :... |
Marisol Anzoátegui | (TV Series) |
| Chiquititas: Rincón de Luz Chiquititas: Rincón de luz Chiquititas: Rincón de luz is a 2001 Argentine adventure film directed by José Luis Massa and written by Alex and Walter Ferrara. The film starred Romina Yan and is a film from the Chiquititas telenovela series which began on Argentine TV in 1995. The film premiered in Argentina on July 12, 2001... |
Belén Fraga | ||
| 2002 | ¿Quién es Alejandro Chomski? | Herself | (TV Special) |
| Playhouse Disney Playhouse Disney Playhouse Disney was Disney Channel's television block for programs aimed at entertaining preschool aged children, often airing as its own channel outside the United States. It was introduced in 1997 after Disney Channel's move to basic cable from premium cable, with a target audience of children... |
Herself | (TV Show) | |
| 2003 | Abre Tus Ojos | Rocío Mazzini | (TV Series) |
| 2005 | Amor Mío Amor Mío Amor Mío is a Spanish language comedy telecomedy, produced in Argentina by Telefe and for Mexico by Televisa. This romantic comedy features Abril Juárez and Marcos Sinclair, two singles who are forced to share an apartment in Buenos Aires even though they cannot stand each other... |
Abril Juárez | (TV Series) (Also writer) |
| 2008 | B&B: Bella y Bestia B&B: Bella y Bestia B&B: Bella y Bestia is a 2008 Argentine sitcom, created by Cris Morena. It was released on January 7, 2008, on Canal 11... |
Bella | (TV Series) |
| 2009 | Casi Ángeles Casi Ángeles Casi Ángeles is an Argentinian series targeted at teenagers, which became the most popular teenage TV series in the country, as well as in many others. It started airing on 21 March 2007 to 29 November 2010 on Telefe. Casi Ángeles was created by Cris Morena, and produced by Cris Morena Group and... |
Ariel | (TV Series) |
| Horizontal/Vertical | Ana | (Movie) |
Discography
- 1995 — Chiquititas Vol. 1
- 1996 — Chiquititas Vol. 2
- 1997 — Chiquititas Vol. 3
- 1998 — Chiquititas Vol. 4
- 2001 — Chiqutitias: Rincón de Luz