2011-08-07

Susana González a Mexican actress

Susana Alejandra González (born October 2, 1973 in Calera de Víctor Rosales, Zacatecas) is a Mexican actress. This particular Mexican actress is known for her talent, beauty and docile character.

She wanted to be an actress from a very young age. She was offered a chance to study acting in Mexico City after winning a beauty contest in her home town. When she was 18 years old, she won a scholarship to Televisa's acting academy, the Centro de Educación Artística. She was so determined to be an actress that she decided to move from Calera to Mexico City. She was encouraged by the enormous support she received from her family.

Her roles have ranged from a ruthless woman in Amigas y rivales to a sweet and naive girl in Entre el Amor y el Odio. In 2004 she starred in Al Otro Lado, a movie co-produced by Spain, Morocco and Mexico. This was an excellent chance for her to be known worldwide. In 2005 she was offered to work in Miami, Florida nearly for a year and a half to shoot the telenovela El Amor No Tiene Precio. This was a difficult time for her due to the time she had to spent far from home. In 2006 she took part in Bailando por la Boda de Mis Sueños, a reality dancing show. She did not win the first place but won the hearts of the people and judges because of her charisma, sweetness, will to succeed and tenacity. In 2007 she played the main role of Camila Darien in the telenovela Pasión, produced by Carla Estrada. In S.O.S.: Sexo y otros Secretos she plays the role of Tania. This TV show offers a perspective of a group of women with five different lives who take us into the private side of womenhood.

Filmography
La que no podia amar (2011-2012) - Cynthia Montero Baez
Para Volver a Amar (2010–2011) - Doménica
Los Exitosos Perez (2010) - Alexandra 'Alex' Rinaldi
Mujeres Asesinas (2009) - Desconfiada
Pasión (telenovela) (2007) - Camila Darien
S.O.S.: Sexo y otros Secretos - Tania
Chinango (2007) as Sofia
Heridas de Amor (2006) as Liliana Lopez Reyna
El Amor No Tiene Precio (2005) as Maria "Liz" Elizabeth González
Cicatrices (2005) - Diana
Hospital el paisa - La Ex-Cita (2004) - Lucía Gordillo
Al otro lado (2004) - Caridad, Angel's mother
Silencio profundo (2003)
Velo de novia (2003) - Andrea Paz
Entre el amor y el odio (2002) - Ana Cristina Robles
Chinango (2002) - Sofia
Amigas y rivales (2001) - Angela
Rayito de luz (2000)
Amor gitano (1999) - Zokka
Cuento de Navidad (1999)
Mujeres engañadas (1999) - Ivette
Que vivan los muertos (1998)
Preciosa (1998) - Felina
Atómica (1998) - Chica Podium
María Isabel (1997) - Elisa
Sentimientos Ajenos (1996) - Norma

Alejandra Barros a Mexican actress

Alejandra Barros del Campo (born August 11, 1971) is a Mexican actress.

Barros studied in New York in The Reads Strasberg Theater Institute to study acting; she later transferred over to Actor's Studio Film & T.V School where she studied film and television, and in the Broadway Dance Center, tap and jazz. After living a couple of years in New York, Barros moved back to Mexico City and enrolled in an acting school to brush-up her acting skills.

After having studied acting and film, Barros received her first opportunity to act in the telenovela Huracán, sharing credits with Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones. She later came to act in telenovelas such as Locura de Amor, a production led by Roberto Gómez Fernández.

Her first stage role was Malcom y su lucha contra los Eunucos, by director Alejandro Bichir, presented at the festival of theater in Málaga, Spain. Other stage work includes the Mexican adaptation of Patrick Marber's play, Closer alongside Bruno Bichir. In 2009/2010, Barros co-starred with Tony Dalton in Bernard Slade's Same Time Next Year.

After working in Mexican television for several years, Barros was given her first starring role in the 2003 telenovela Mariana de la Noche where she essayed the title character with Jorge Salinas as her leading man. In 2006, Barros co-starred in the Mexican telenovela remake of 1986's El Camino Secreto now titled La Verdad Oculta opposite Eduardo Yáñez. Both versions were written by Jose Rendon. In 2008/2009, she appeared with Alejandro Camacho in Alma de Hierro. She teamed up with Camacho and Jones once again in 2010's critically acclaimed Para Volver a Amar by Gómez Fernández and Giselle González, where she portrayed Bárbara Mantilla, the suffering, yet flighty and carefree wife of an abusive alcoholic. For her efforts, Barros won the award for Best Actress in a Co-Starring Role given by Revista TV y Novelas in their annual Premios gala on March 6th, 2011.

Also in 2010, Alejandra Barros co-starred with Eugenio Derbez in the romantic comedy No Eres Tu, Soy Yo which went on to become one of the highest-grossing films in Mexican cinema history.

Aleida Nuñez a Mexican actress

Aleida Araceli Nuñez Flores is a Mexican actress, originally from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco.

She was a pageant queen in diverse regional contests during her adolescence. In 1994 she gained second place in the contest Nuestra Belleza Guanajuato. She began her career in media communications as a conductor in various programs on channel 10 of León. She was also a runway and advertisement model, before beginning her career in acting.

Telenovelas
Cuando me enamoro (2010) - Alfonsina
Mañana es para siempre (2008–2009) - Gardenia Campillo
Las tontas no van al cielo (2008) - mistress of Eduardo
Destilando amor (2007) - Valeria Amiga de Erica
La fea más bella (2006–2007) - Jazmín García
Contra viento y marea (2005) - Perla
Mariana de la noche (2003–2004)- Miguelina
Las vías del amor (2002–2003)
Entre el amor y el odio (2002)
Salomé (2001–2002)

Sofía Vergara a Colombian actress, television host, model, and entrepreneur

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara (born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian actress, television host, model, and entrepreneur.

Vergara had been widely known for co-hosting two TV shows for Univisión in the late 1990s. Her TV career opened up for her a window of exposure to North American audiences prior to her first notable acting job in English, the 2003 film Chasing Papi. Subsequently, she appeared in films, including two Tyler Perry films, Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter.

Vergara currently stars on the critically acclaimed ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Vergara was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, is a homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, produced cattle for the meat industry. "Toti" was the nickname given to Vergara by her five brothers and sisters and many cousins, including television news anchor and reporter Carlos Vergara. She grew up in her hometown of Barranquilla and was raised as a devout Catholic in a well-off family, attending a private bilingual Spanish/English school

Vergara was discovered by a photographer while walking on a Colombian beach. Soon she was presented with attractive offers in modeling and television work, and she considered accepting them despite being raised both conservatively and religiously. According to an article in the January 2002 issue of Maxim, Vergara was "apprehensive about doing her first television commercial—until her Catholic schoolteachers gave her their personal permission to take the assignment." Vergara made her first appearance as a performer at the age of 17 in a Pepsi commercial that was widely broadcast in Latin America.

Vergara moved to Bogotá, Colombia, at the age of 20, where she worked as a runway model and on television. From 1995 to 1998, she was co-host with Fernando Fiore on Fuera de serie ("Out of the Ordinary" or "Over-the-Top"), a travel series that sent her to exotic places around the world. It was telecast on the international Univisión Spanish-language television network, and it made her a star in the Latin American market. It also gave Vergara television exposure in the United States via the Univisión stations there. She co-hosted the Univisión show A que no te atreves ("I Dare You"). She appeared as a guest star in the season-four opening of the HBO series Entourage.

Besides runway and catalog modeling work, Vergara did independent projects. She was photographed for posters and swimsuit calendars in 1998, 2000, and 2002.

Vergara is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, and she has naturally blonde hair (for movies and television, she is sometimes asked to color it brunette to make her look more stereotypically Latina). Vergara was under an exclusive television contract with Univision for several years, and after it expired she accepted a role with the ABC network in the United States. Vergara appeared on the ABC situation comedies Hot Properties and The Knights of Prosperity. She currently stars on the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series along with a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.

Vergara plays Alicia Oviedo in the television show Amas de Casa Desesperadas, the Colombian version of Desperate Housewives. Her character is essentially the Colombian counterpart to the Mary Alice Young character in the American show. She also appeared on the ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money as Jeremy Darling's love interest. Vergara has made guest appearances in the Mexican telenovela Fuego En La Sangre.

In 2009, Vergara had a five-week stint on Broadway as "Mama" Morton in the revival of Chicago.

In 2011, Vergera was supposed to star in The Paperboy, an independent drama directed by Lee Daniels. Due to delays, shooting was pushed back a week (which conflicted with Vergara shooting Season 3 of Modern Family), so she was forced to drop out.

In July 2011, she finished filming for the Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges, her first lead role in a film. Vergara said, "I play a mean woman that tries to manipulate the Three Stooges into killing her husband so that she gets all the money."

In 2008, Vergara was 62 on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list. She was named one of People magazine's "50 most beautiful people" and has been recognized by both the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as one of the most influential Latinas in Hollywood.

Vergara was married at the age of 18 to her childhood sweetheart, and she gave birth to her son Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara September 16, 1992, at the age of 20.

After her divorce, Vergara studied pre-dentistry at a university in Colombia for three years. Then, many opportunities arose to work in modeling and in show business, and Vergara decided to pursue these in Latin America, leaving two semesters shy of graduating from dental school. Soon she decided to move to Miami, Florida, to take advantage of opportunities and to move away from unrest in Colombia (her older brother had been murdered in 1998 during an attempt to kidnap him). She brought her son, mother and sister with her. Her sister, Sandra, is now a minor movie and television actress in the United States.

Sofia was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000. She had followed the recommended treatment (surgery, iodine radiation) of her doctors and had a full recovery.