Itatí Cantoral

Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi (born May 13, 1975) is a Mexican actress, singer, dancer, and producer, She is of Spanish and Italian descent . She is best known for her roles as Soraya Montenegro in Televisa's telenovela María la del Barrio (1995) and as Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo Fernández "La Licenciada" in Televisa's telenovela Hasta que el dinero nos separe (2009). On November 18, 2015, Cantoral was named Mr. Amigo, which is an association in Brownsville, Texas that honors a Mexican citizen each year to promote international friendship and good will between the U.S. and Mexico. Itatí is the second member of the Cantoral family to be awarded Mr. Amigo after her father, Roberto Cantoral, was awarded in 1981. Her maldita lisiada scene in María la del Barrio has become an internet meme.

Itatí Cantoral
Cantoral at the launch of ¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler? in February 2015
Born	Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi May 13, 1975 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Occupation	Actress, singer dancer producer
Years active	1986–present
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Spouse(s)	Eduardo Santamarina ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2004)​ Carlos Cruz ​ ​ (m. 2008; div. 2017)​
Children	3
Parent(s)	Roberto Cantoral (father)

Early life and education

Cantoral was born in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. She is the daughter of Mexican composer and songwriter, Roberto Cantoral,[1] and Argentine actress of Italian descent, Itatí Zucchi. Cantoral has three brothers Carlos, Roberto & also actor and singer José Cantoral. A child actress, at 13, Cantoral was accepted into the Televisa actors' academy, Centro de Educación Artística, and made her television debut in the series La telaraña in 1986. Later, acting in the telenovela Muchachitas in 1991, led to work in theatre of Mexico City.

Career

In 1993, Cantoral appeared in Dos mujeres, un camino with 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 villain Soraya Montenegro in "María la del Barrio" in 1995/6, acting with Thalía and Fernando Colunga. In 1996 and 1997 she appeared in 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, the story of a beautiful woman unjustly imprisoned, returning to Trinidad in search of, and to reclaim, her past.

In 2009–2010, she gave life to the character of "Alejandra Alvarez Del Castilo" in Televisa's hit telenovela Hasta que el dinero nos separe with actor and singer Pedro Fernández, for which she won Best Actress at the Premios TVyNovelas, where the telenovela also won the main category; the actors won Best Couple of the Year at the show.

Cantoral protagonized many famous plays in Mexican theater, such as Aventurera, Sweet Charity, Mame the Musical and many more.

Recently, in 2018, she starred as Mexican actress Silvia Pinal in the biographical television series Silvia Pinal, Frente a Ti, for which she was nominated as Best Actress in a TV series for the Premios TVyNovelas.

As a singer, Cantoral has released two albums, one of them being Itatí Canta a Roberto Cantoral, which was produced by her late father Roberto Cantoral. In 2018, she was part of the CD tribute to her father "Roberto Cantoral: Siempre Vivo" with the song 'Me Esta Gustando'.

Personal life

Cantoral met her first husband Eduardo Santamarina at CEA Televisa where they were classmates. In 1992 they first began to work together in De Frente al Sol. Five years later, in 1997, they were the main protagonists of Salud, Dinero y Amor where their love story began. Cantoral and Santamarina dated for about two years. They had a civil wedding on September 18, 1999, and four months later they got married in church on January 22, 2000; a couple of days before the wedding they announced that she was pregnant with twins. She gave birth to their twin boys Eduardo & Roberto Miguel on August 3, 2000. After 5 years of marriage in mid 2004 they announced their separation; their divorce was finalized six months later.

While working on La Viuda de Blanco she began a personal association with producer Carlos Alberto Cruz, and they legalized their relationship in a private ceremony in 2008. On October 9, 2008 she gave birth to their daughter María Itatí. Their love story ended in 2017, when Cantoral and Cruz officially announced their divorce.

Filmography

Film

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
Bonita	1996	Bonita
De cuando el pescado murió de placer	2002	Television conductor	Short film
La hija del caníbal	2003	Airline saleswoman
Ya no los hacen como antes	2003	Perla
El fuego de la venganza	2004	Evelyn	Uncredited
Cansada de besar sapos	2006	Cecilia
Los pajarracos	2006	Fina
No hay derecho joven	2006	Lawyer
One Long Night	2007	Patty
Amar	2009	Lisa
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza	2012	La Lisiada Novela Actress
Amor de mis amores	2014	Elva
La dictadura perfecta	2014	Lucrecia Lascuráin
Sobre tus huellas	2017	Horse Riding Instructor
No Manches Frida 2	2019	Camila

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
La telaraña	1986	Unknown role
Muchachitas	1991	Lucía Aguilera
La pícara soñadora	1991	Unknown role
De frente al sol	1992	Lupita
Dos mujeres, un camino	1993	Graciela Torres Núñez
Mujer, casos de la vida real	1994–96	Various roles	4 episodes
Lo que se vio y no se vio de Dos mujeres, un camino	1994	Graciela Torres Núñez	Archive footage, television film
María la del Barrio	1995	Soraya Montenegro
Tú y yo	1996	Casandra
Salud, dinero y amor	1997	Estrella Pérez
Derbez en cuando	1994	Soraya Montenegro	Archive footage
Cuento de Navidad	1999	Sebring Cirrus
Infierno en el paraíso	1999	Francesca Paoli Prado
Sin pecado concebido	2001	Raquel Villavicencio Rojas
Amigas y rivales	2001	Eduviges
Vale todo	2002	Raquel
El alma herida	2003	Eugenia Granados
La viuda de Blanco	2006	Alicia Guardiola
Tiempo final	2008	Silvia	Episode: "Mala noche"
Mujeres asesinas	2008	Sandra Arvide	Episode: "Sandra, trepadora"
Hasta que el dinero nos separe	2009–10	Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo	Main role; 231 episodes (season 1)
El sexo débil	2011	Helena Román
Capadocia	2012	Leonor Cantú	Recurring role; 4 episodes (season 3)
Fortuna	2013	Comisionada Paloma Alarcón
¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler?	2015	Sara Fernández / Isabel
Amores con trampa	2015	Isabel	Main role; 128 episodes (season 1)
El Vato	2016	Wendy Lozada	9 episodes
El Chema	2016–17	Blanca	Main role; 79 episodes (season 1)
José José, el príncipe de la canción	2018	Natalia "Kiki" Herrera	Main role
Silvia Pinal, frente a ti	2019	Silvia Pinal	Main role
La mexicana y el güero	2020	Andrea Ibarrola Gil	Main Role

Awards and nominations

TVyNovelas Awards

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
1993	Best Young Lead Actress	De frente al Sol	Nominated
1994		Dos mujeres, un camino
1996	Best Female Antagonist	María la del Barrio	Won
2002		Sin pecado concebido
2010	Best Lead Actress	Hasta que el dinero nos separe [2]
2020	Best Lead Actress in a Series	Silvia Pinal, Frente a ti	Won

Premios People en Español

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
2010	Best Actress	Hasta que el dinero nos separe	Won
2010	Best Couple (with Pedro Fernandez)	Hasta que el dinero nos separe	Won

Festival Mercado TV-Fiction International Awards

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
2011	Best Lead Actress	El Sexo Débil	Won

Association of Theatre Journalists Awards

Year	Category	Theater	Result
2012	Best Lead Actress	Misery	Won

Other awards

• Medal Omecihuatl 2011 Awarded by Inmujeres DF
• Part of "Los 50 más bellos" by magazine People en Español (2011, 2015)[3]
• Queen of Voceadores (2010)
• Queen of Veracruz television
• Premio Palmas de oro (Best Villain)
• Jealous of the popularity
• Premio Bravo
• Premio ACE of New York
• El Sol de oro
• Premio Fama New York (2002)
• Queen of Mariachi (2015)
• Mr. Amigo (Nov. 18, 2015)

References

1. "Rancho Viejo-based composer passes away in Mexico". KGBT-TV. 2010-08-08. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
2. TVyEspectáculos "Itatí cantoral nominada al premio TV&Novelas como Mejor actriz" Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine-actualizado febrero 2010
3. People en español "Itatí Cantoral una de los 50 más bellos" Archived 2011-05-02 at the Wayback Machine - actualizado abril de 2011

External links

• Itatí Cantoral at IMDb