Bárbara Mori

Mexican Actress and Model

Profile
Popular name               Bárbara Mori
Birth name                    Barbara Mori Ochoa
Birth date                     February 2, 1978
Birth place                    Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality                    Uruguayan-Mexican
Occupation                   Actress and Model


Biography
Bárbara Mori Ochoa is a Mexican actress and model. She became famous for being the female lead in the Bollywood film, Kites.

Mori started work modeling and later became a telenovela actress with TV Azteca, when she starred in the soap opera Azul Tequila. Her big break came in 2004, with the telenovela Rubí (a remake of the 1968 series) by rival network Televisa, in which she played the main character.

Bárbara Mori Ochoa was born on 2 February 1978. She is of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage; her Japanese ancestry is from her paternal grandfather.  She has two siblings, actress Kenya Mori and brother Kintaró Mori. Her parents Yuyi Mori and Rosario Ochoa divorced when she was three years of age. Mori spent her early childhood between Mexico and Uruguay and finally settled in Mexico City at the age of twelve.

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 seventeen and went to live with her cousins.  At nineteen she met actor Sergio Mayer, who would later become father to their son Sergio, born in 1998.
They never married. (Source Wikipedia)