Itatí Cantoral

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cantoral and the second or maternal family name is Zucchi.

Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi (born May 13, 1975) is a Mexican actress, singer, dancer, and producer. She is best known for her roles as Soraya Montenegro in María la del Barrio (1995) and Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo Fernández "La Licenciada" in Hasta que el dinero nos separe (2009), both telenovelas produced by Televisa.

Itatí Cantoral
Cantoral at the launch of ¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler? in February 2015
Born	Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi (1975-05-13) May 13, 1975 Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer, dancer, producer
Years active	1986–present
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Spouses	Eduardo Santamarina ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2004)​ Carlos Cruz ​ ​ (m. 2008; div. 2017)​
Children	3
Father	Roberto Cantoral

Early life and education

Cantoral was born in Mexico City, 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. She later acted in the telenovela Muchachitas in 1991.

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 from 1995 to 1996, alongside Thalía and Fernando Colunga. In 1996 and 1997 she appeared in Tú y yo, with Maribel Guardia and Joan Sebastian; and in Salud, dinero y amor, the sequel to Mexican telenovela El premio mayor.

In 2001, Cantoral played the antagonic role of Raquel Villavicencio in Sin Pecado Concebido, another Televisa production starring Angelica Rivera and Carlos Ponce. She starred in the Brazilian-American co-production Vale todo in 2002; and in 2003, Telemundo's El alma herida, as a teenage girl who crosses the Mexican–American 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, she starred with Francisco Gattorno in the Telemundo production of Julio Jimenez's La Viuda de Blanco.

In 2009–2010, she played the character 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; while the actors won Best Couple of the Year at the show.

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

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.

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.

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 tribute album to her father "Roberto Cantoral: Siempre Vivo" with the song "Me Esta Gustando".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Bonita	Bonita
2002	De cuando el pescado murió de placer	Television conductor	Short film
2003	La hija del caníbal	Airline saleswoman
	Ya no los hacen como antes	Perla
2004	Man on Fire	Evelyn	Uncredited role
2006	Cansada de besar sapos	Cecilia
	Los pajarracos	Fina
	No hay derecho joven	Lawyer
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
	La dictadura perfecta	Lucrecia Lascuráin
2017	Sobre tus huellas	Horse Riding Instructor
2019	No Manches Frida 2	Camila
2022	My Mother-in-law Hates Me	Regina

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes
1986	La telaraña
1991	Muchachitas	Lucía Aguilera
	La pícara soñadora	Melissa
1992	De frente al sol	Lupita
1993	Dos mujeres, un camino	Graciela Torres Núñez
1994–96	Mujer, casos de la vida real	Various roles	4 episodes
1994	Lo que se vio y no se vio de Dos mujeres, un camino	Graciela Torres Núñez	Archive footage, television film
1995	María la del Barrio	Soraya Montenegro
1996	Tú y yo	Casandra
1997	Salud, dinero y amor	Estrella Pérez
1994	Derbez en cuando	Soraya Montenegro	Archive footage
1999	Cuento de Navidad	Sebring Cirrus
	Infierno en el paraíso	Francesca Paoli Prado
2001	Sin pecado concebido	Raquel Villavicencio Rojas
	Amigas y rivales	Eduviges
2002	Vale todo	Raquel
2003	El alma herida	Eugenia Granados
2006	La viuda de Blanco	Alicia Guardiola
2008	Tiempo final	Silvia	Episode: "Mala noche"
	Mujeres asesinas	Sandra Arvide	Episode: "Sandra, trepadora"
2009–10	Hasta que el dinero nos separe	Alejandra Álvarez del Castillo	Main role; 231 episodes (season 1)
2011	El sexo débil	Helena Román
2012	Capadocia	Leonor Cantú	Recurring role; 4 episodes (season 3)
2013	Fortuna	Comisionada Paloma Alarcón
2015	¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler?	Sara Fernández / Isabel
	Amores con trampa	Isabel	Main role; 128 episodes (season 1)
2016	El Vato	Wendy Lozada	9 episodes
2016–17	El Chema	Blanca	Main role; 79 episodes (season 1)
2018	José José, el príncipe de la canción	Natalia "Kiki" Herrera	Main role
2019	Silvia Pinal, frente a ti	Silvia Pinal	Main role
	Se rentan cuartos	Graciela Garza De La Garza y Más Garza	Main role
2020	La mexicana y el güero	Andrea Ibarrola Gil	Main Role
2022	Daddies on Request	Maricarmen
	High Heat	Gloria	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
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	Production	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)
• 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 IMDb