Lorena Herrera

Infobox actor


name = Lorena Herrera
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birthdate = birth date and age|1967|2|18
location = flagicon|MEX Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico
birthname = Lorena Herrera de la Vega
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notable role =El Premio Mayor
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Lorena Herrera (born Lorena Herrera de la Vega February 18, 1967 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa) is famous ,Mexican actress.

Biography

. Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became a highly successful model in Mexico, and she gained international fame as a model, posing for ads in Mexico and South America. Despite this, few among the general public knew her name. As a model, she won the "Look of the Year" contest, awarded in Mexico.

Lorena then began working in Mexico's Low budget films. She has been involved in more than fifty films since she began her career as an actress in Soap operas.

Telenovelas

Lorena Herrera then met producer Emilio Larrosa, who had Televisa connections. Larrosa gave her a chance to star in his telenovela "Muchachitas" ("Young Girls"), which was a huge hit across Latin America.

Soon after, Lorena Herrera was hired to participate in the mega-hit telenovela, "Dos mujeres, un camino", where she played the mistress of a villain. Although her participation in that soap opera was relatively short (she joined the drama after about half of the chapters had been filmed, and her character was killed off before the ending of the opera), she caused a wide sensation, becoming a sex symbol across Mexico and all over Latin America.

Lorena Herrera has since acted in many other important telenovelas, including "El premio mayor". She is also a singer, having released various Mexican music CDs and toured Mexico and the United States. Lorena Herrera has been offered money by Playboy Mexico to pose nude for that magazine (Thing that she did for the Mexican Playboy in The 80' called Signore for the December 1987 issue, under the name "Bárbara Ferrat"), and she has released various calendars in which she assumed sensual poses.

On the Univision show, "El Gordo y la Flaca", Lorena shared a bathtub with "El Gordo", Raul De Molina.

She worked as the evil stepmother of Lola "(Monserrat)" in Lola...Erase Una Vez.She is the mom of Grettell Valdez which interprets Carlota in Lola and she is also the mom of Zoraida Gomez in the novela Lola.

She has said on Don Francisco Presenta that she likes singing, but acting is her favorite thing to do.

She has worked with Carla Estrada,Emilio Larosa,Pedro Damian and many more producers

She said recently on the show Mentiras y Verdades that she did not like to novelas with Emilio Larrosa after El Premio Mayor because he told her that her part in the novela was going to be the antagonist but her personaje soon started to appear less annd less and said very stupid things that did not have to do with anything.

External links

* [http://www.lorenaherrera.com.mx/ Official website]
* [http://biografias.esmas.com/foto-video/lorena-herrera Lorena Herrera from Televisa Website]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=74723825 Lorena Herrera on Myspace]
* [http://www.lorenaherrera.net/ Lorena Herrera: The Web Site (in Spanish)]

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