Itatí Cantoral

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Cantoral and the second or maternal family name is Zucchi.

Itatí Cantoral
Born	Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi (1975-05-13) May 13, 1975 Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
Occupation	Actress, Singer, Dancer, Producer
Years active	1986-present
Height	5' 2" (1.60 m)
Spouse(s)	Eduardo Santamarina 1999-2004 Carlos Alberto Cruz 2008-2012
Children	José Eduardo & Roberto Miguel Santamarina (2000-08-03) August 3, 2000 María Itatí Cruz (2008-10-09) October 9, 2008
Parent(s)	Roberto Cantoral (1935-2010) Itatí Zucchi
Website	https://www.twitter.com/ItatiC https://www.instagram.com/itatic_oficial

Itatí Cantoral (born Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi; May 13, 1975) is a Mexican actress, singer, dancer, and producer. She is best known for her roles as Soraya Montenegro in Televisa's telenovela Maria la del Barrio (1995), as Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo Fernández "La licenciada" in Televisa's telenovela Hasta Que El Dinero Nos Separe (2009) and as Isabel Bocelli de Velasco "Puchis" in Televisa's Amores con trampa (2015). 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.

Early life and education

Cantoral was born in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. She is the daughter of Mexican composer and songwriter, Roberto Cantoral, 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 Puerto Rican 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 villainous Soraya Montenegro in "Maria la del Barrio" in 1995/6, acting with Thalía and Fernando Colunga. TV appearances in 1996/97 were for 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.

Personal life

Cantoral met Eduardo Santamarina, her first husband at CEA Televisa where they were classmates. Later in 1992 they first began to work together in De Frente al Sol. Five years later in 1997, they were the main protagonist of Salud, Dinero y Amor where their love story began. Cantoral and Santamarina dated for about two years. Then, they first had a civil wedding on September 18, 1999, four months later the got married by church on January 22, 2000, a couple days before the wedding they announced she was pregnant of twins. Couple months later 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, they legalized their relationship in a private ceremony in 2008. On October 9, 2008 she gave birth to their daughter María Itatí.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Lo que se vio y no se vio de Dos mujeres, un camino	Graciela Torres Núñez	Television film
1996	Bonita
2002	De cuando el pescado murió de placer	Conductora de television	Short film
2003	La hija del caníbal	Airline saleswoman #1
2003	Ya no los hacen como antes	Perla
2004	El fuego de la venganza	Evelyn	Uncredited
2006	Cansada de besar sapos	Cecilia
2006	Los pajarracos	Fina
2006	No hay derecho joven	Abogada
2007	One Long Night	Patty
2009	Amar	Lisa
2012	El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza	La Lisiada Novela Actress
2014	Amor de mis amores	Elva
2014	La dictadura perfecta	Lucrecia Lascurain

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	La telaraña		Television debut
1991	Muchachitas	Lucía
1991	La pícara soñadora
1992	De frente al sol	Lupita
1993	Dos mujeres, un camino	Graciela Torres Núñez
1994-1996	Mujer, casos de la vida real	Various roles	Episode: "El crimen de una bailarina" Episode: "La vida nueva" Episode: "Una piedra en el camino"
1995	María la del Barrio	Soraya Montenegro
1996	Tú y yo	Casandra
1997	Salud, dinero y amor	Estrella Pérez
1998	¿Qué nos pasa?		2 episodes
1999	Infierno en el paraíso	Francesca Paoli Prado
1999	Cuento de Navidad	Sebring Cirrus	TV mini-series
2001	Amigas y rivales	Eduviges
2001	Sin pecado concebido	Raquel Villavicencio Rojas
2002	Vale todo	Raquel
2003	El alma herida	Eugenia Granados
2005	Decisiones		1 episode
2005	Una segunda oportunidad	Eduviges
2006	La viuda de Blanco	Alicia Guardiola
2008	Tiempo final	Silvia	"Mala noche" (Season 1, Episode 14)
2008	Mujeres asesinas	Sandra Arvide	"Sandra, trepadora" (Season 1, Episode 10)
2009-2010	Hasta que el dinero nos separe	Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo Fernández De Valenzuela / De Medina	231 episodes
2011	El sexo débil	Helena Román
2012	Capadocia	Leonor Cantú	"Las Vertientes de la salvación" (Season 3, Episode 6) "Ovejas y Lobos" (Season 3, Episode 9) "La sombra de tus alas" (Season 3, Episode 10) "La Paz y la Espada" (Season 3, Episode 11)
2013	Fortuna	Comisionada Paloma Alarcón
2015	¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler?	Sara Fernández "
2015	Amores con trampa	Isabel Bocelli de Velasco

As producer

Year	Title	Role	Genre
2009	Se jodió la Navidad	Producer	Short film

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	Maria la del barrio	Won
2002		Sin pecado concebido
2010	Best Lead Actress	Hasta Que El Dinero Nos Separe

Premios People en Español

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
2010	Best Actress	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 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)
• 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)

External links

• Itatí Cantoral at the Internet Movie Database