Barbara Mori Biography

Barbara Mori Biography

Bárbara Mori (born Bárbara Mori Ochoa February 2, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Mexican actress and model.

Biography

Barbara Mori Biography

Mori started to work as a model and then became a telenovela actress with TV Azteca but her big break came with the remake of the telenovela Rubí of rival network Televisa in 2004 playing the title character.

On the cover of Rubi (2004)When her parents divorced, Bárbara Mori moved to Mexico. One day, while working as a waitress at the age of fourteen, fashion designer Marcos Toledo invited her to work as a model. She became independent at the age of 17 and went to live with her cousins. At the age of 19 she meet who would become her husband, actor Sergio Mayer.

Bárbara Mori later studied acting in El Centro de Estudios de Formación Actoral. Mori first acted in the Mexican Telenovela, Al norte del corazón. She then participated in the comedy series Tric Tac and Mirada de mujer the following year. She obtained her first TVyNovelas Award for her role in Mirada de mujer for the Best New Actress.

In 1998, Bárbara Mori got her first leading role as Azul in the series Azul Tequila, co-starring with Mauricio Ochmann. A year later she filmed the series Me muero por tí in Miami, with Peruvian actor Christian Meier. She participated in her first film in 2000, in the Mexican comedy Inspiración. Later, she acted in various other telenovelas including, Amor descarado and the high rated Mexican soap Rubí, which earned her a TVyNovelas Award, the most prestigious television award in Latin America.

Bárbara Mori has two siblings; actress Kenya Mori (an actress) and Kintaro Mori. Her paternal grandfather was Japanese. Bárbara Mori also has a son with actor Sergio Mayer. In 2005 she obtained the starring role in the blockbuster film La mujer de mi hermano as Zoe and Christian Meier in the role of her husband, who she had previously co-starred with in Me muero por ti. Colombian actor Manolo Cardona played the antagonist. After divorcing Mayer, Mori dated Cardona.

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After her relationship with Cardona she dated actor José María Torre after his breakup with singer Paulina Rubio.

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