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BIOGRAPHY

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

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.

At the age of 3, her parents divorced and Bárbara Mori later 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 by the age of 17 and went to live with her cousins[1]. At 19 she met actor Sergio Mayer, who would later become her husband. Together, they have a son named Sergio.

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, 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 and Kintaro Mori. Her paternal grandfather was Japanese. Bárbara Mori also had a son with Sergio Mayer, who was named after the actor. In 2005 she obtained the starring role in the blockbuster film La mujer de mi hermano as Zoe.