Itatí Cantoral

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| image = Cantoral in the presentation of ¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler? on February 2015-4.png

| caption = Cantoral at the launch of ¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler? in February 2015

| name = Itatí Cantoral

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|5|13}}

| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico

| birth_name = Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi

| height = {{height|m=1.60}}

| occupation = Actress, singer, dancer, producer

| yearsactive = 1986–present

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Eduardo Santamarina|1999|2004|reason=divorce}}
{{marriage|Carlos Cruz|2008|2017|reason=divorce}}

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| children = 3

| father = Roberto Cantoral

| mother =

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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.

Early life and education

Cantoral was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She is the daughter of Mexican composer and songwriter, Roberto Cantoral,{{cite news|title=Rancho Viejo-based composer passes away in Mexico|url=http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=493884|work=KGBT-TV|date=2010-08-08|access-date=2010-08-10|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726123511/http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=493884|archive-date=2011-07-26}} 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.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

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.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

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.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

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.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

Cantoral protagonized many famous plays in Mexican theatre, such as Aventurera, Sweet Charity, Mame the Musical and many more.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

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.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

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".{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

Filmography

= Film =

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!scope="col"| Year

!scope="col"| Title

!scope="col"|Role

!scope="col"|Notes

1996

|Bonita

| Bonita

2002

|De cuando el pescado murió de placer

| Television conductor

| Short film

rowspan="2"| 2003

|La hija del caníbal

| Airline saleswoman

Ya no los hacen como antes

| Perla

2004

|Man on Fire

| Evelyn

| Uncredited role

rowspan="3"| 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

rowspan="2"| 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 =

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!scope="col"| Title

!scope="col"| Year

!scope="col"|Role

!scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

1986

|La telaraña

rowspan="2"| 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

rowspan="2"| 1999

| Cuento de Navidad

| Sebring Cirrus

Infierno en el paraíso

| Francesca Paoli Prado

rowspan="2"| 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

rowspan="2"| 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

rowspan="2"| 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

rowspan="2"| 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

rowspan="2"| 2022

| Daddies on Request

| Maricarmen

High Heat

| Gloria

| Main Role

2025

| Velvet: El nuevo imperio{{cite web |last1=González |first1=Moisés |title=Itatí Cantoral se une a grabaciones de telenovela, y más imágenes ¡De telenovela! |url=https://peopleenespanol.com/itati-cantoral-se-une-grabaciones-melodrama-y-mas-telenovela-11716147 |website=People en Español |access-date=21 April 2025 |language=es |date=17 April 2025}}

| Isabel Juárez

Awards and nominations

=[[TVyNovelas Awards]]=

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style="background:#b0c4de; ! Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
1993	rowspan=2\|Best Young Lead Actress	De frente al Sol	rowspan=2 {{nom}}
1994	Dos mujeres, un camino
1996	rowspan=2\|Best Female Antagonist	María la del Barrio	rowspan=3 {{won}}
2002	Sin pecado concebido
2010	Best Lead Actress	Hasta que el dinero nos separe [http://www.tvyespectaculos.com/2010/02/08/nominados-a-los-premios-tvynovelas-2010/ TVyEspectáculos "Itatí cantoral nominada al premio TV&Novelas como Mejor actriz"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002072554/http://www.tvyespectaculos.com/2010/02/08/nominados-a-los-premios-tvynovelas-2010/ \|date=2011-10-02 }}-actualizado febrero 2010
2020	rowspan=2\|Best Lead Actress in a Series	Silvia Pinal, Frente a ti	rowspan=2 {{won}}

= Premios People en Español =

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style="background:#b0c4de; ! 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 =

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! Year

=Association of Theatre Journalists Awards=

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! Year

=Other awards=

Medal Omecihuatl 2011 Awarded by Inmujeres DF
Part of "Los 50 más bellos" by magazine People en Español (2011, 2015)[http://www.peopleenespanol.com/pespanol/articles/0,22490,2042258_2067256,00.html People en español "Itatí Cantoral una de los 50 más bellos"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502064017/http://www.peopleenespanol.com/pespanol/articles/0,22490,2042258_2067256,00.html |date=2011-05-02 }} - actualizado abril de 2011
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)