Lorena Bernal

{{short description|Spanish actress, television host, and model}}

{{Infobox model

| name = Lorena Bernal

| image = Lorena Bernal.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Bernal in 2007

| birth_name = Lorena Raquel Bernal Pascual

| birth_place = Tucumán, Argentina

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|5|12|df=y}}

| haircolor = Brown

| eyecolor = Blue Green

| height = 1.73 m

| spouse = Mikel Arteta

| children = 3

}}

Lorena Raquel Bernal Pascual (born 12 May 1981){{cite web | title = Lorena Bernal Pascual | publisher = Yahoo! - Noticias | url = http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/16/20090102/tso-lorena-bernal-pascual-9b37dc8.html | language = spanish | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090915200637/http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/16/20090102/tso-lorena-bernal-pascual-9b37dc8.html | archivedate = 15 September 2009 }} is an Argentinian-Spanish actress, television host, and model. She is married to current Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.

Early life

Bernal was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. She moved to San Sebastián, Spain, when she was 9 years old, and studied at the French Lycée Français de Saint Sébastien in the city, then at Maurice Ravel school in Saint Jean de Luz across the border in France. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Career

Bernal has worked as a model since the age of seven and began drama classes at the age of 13. She was Miss Spain 1999 at the age of 17 and could not represent the country in Miss Universe due to her age, so instead she competed in Miss World where she was one of the 10 finalists.{{Cite web |last=Andrews |first=Connor |date=2023-09-03 |title=Arteta uses hilarious analogy about his wife as he stays calm on Arsenal man's struggles |url=https://talksport.com/football/1554759/mikel-arteta-hilarious-analogy-dating-wife-kai-havertz/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=talkSPORT |language=en-gb}}

Since then, Bernal has worked as a model, TV host, and actress in Spain and in the United States, where she appeared in the American television show Chuck as an international arms dealer and CSI: Miami in the role of Mía, a nanny, in the episode "My Nanny."{{cite web | title = Lorena Bernal | work = Internet Movie Database | publisher = imdb | url = https://us.imdb.com/name/nm0076085/ | accessdate = 16 October 2007}}

Personal life

She is married to Spanish former footballer Mikel Arteta, the current manager of Premier League football club Arsenal and former player at Everton and Arsenal, among others.

The couple's first child, called Gabriel, was born in Spain in 2009. Their second child, Daniel, was born in 2012, and their third child, Oliver, was also born in Spain in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.es/20120627/estilo-gente/abci-lorena-bernal-madre-201206272056.html |title=Lorena Bernal y Mikel Arteta, padres por segunda vez| date= 27 June 2012 |publisher= ABC|accessdate=28 June 2012|language= Spanish}}[http://www.hola.com/actualidad/2015060779175/lorena-bernal-da-a-luz-tercer-nino/ Hola]