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Artist
Natalia Oreiro
12+ albums
latinpopfemale vocalistslatin popspanish
about
Actress, singer and model Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias Poggio Bourie was born on the 19th of May 1977, in Montevideo, Uruguay as the youngest child of Carlos Alberto and Mabel. She started studying theatre at the age of eight, and today at 30 years old her life passes between cameras, stages, recording studios, presentations of recording productions, and she is already a phenomenon. When she was twelve she auditioned for a film that needed child actors, and started a career in the commercial world. Between 12 and 16 years she recorded 37 commercials for O.b. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Johnson & Johnson, between others. At 14 she was hand-picked out of 10,000 competitors to accompany Xuxa (Meneghel) on her tour in America, and representing her in programmes (_"Show de Xuxa, El" (1991)_) and homages. But most of her earnings went on tickets to Buenos Aires to participate in film castings. When she was 17 she relocated to Argentina alone. She participated in a small role in the television play called "Inconquistable corazon" (1994) (at first as ordinary extra, later as Victoria, one of schoolgirls of Monica Sandoval, protagonist of series). She renounced her part as an ambassadress (called "paquita") to Xuxa (Meneghel) to be a presenter on MTV Latino and in 1995 she was called to play the role of Patricia Palmer's niece - Veronica Iturbe Montalban in the telenovela "Dulce Ana" (1995). Afterwards she appeared in "90-60-90 modelos" (1996), and a year later in the role of Valeria Gar
