Karen Cecilia Martinez Insignares (born Cartagena

Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena de Indias , is a large Caribbean beach resort city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of Bolívar Department...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

, 1979) better known as Karen Martinez, is a Colombian actress and model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

. Known primarily as the wife of the hit Colombian

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 singer Juanes

Juanes

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez , better known as Juanes is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.Juanes has sold more than 13 million albums...

.

A model since age 14, Martinez first appeared on television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 in a commercial for a soda recorded by Carlos Vives in Cartagena.

Biography

Karen Martínez is married to Colombian

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 singer Juanes

Juanes

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez , better known as Juanes is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.Juanes has sold more than 13 million albums...

. Martinez and Juanes now have two daughters (Paloma Aristizábal Martínez and Luna Aristizábal Martínez) and a son named Dante Aristizábal Martínez.

She has starred in the series "El Cartel de los Sapos" and other telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

s.

Telenovelas

• El cartel de los sapos (2008) as Sofia
• Tiempo final (2008) as Candela
• Sofía dame tiempo (2003) as Sofia Santoro
• Amor a Mil
  Amor a mil
  Amor a mil is a Colombian telenovela which starred Manolo Cardona, Patricia Vásquez, Luís Fernando Hoyos, Margarita Ortega, Hernando Casanova, Julio César Luna and Gloria Gómez. It was produced and broadcast on Caracol TV in 2001. This telenovela contains 124 episodes.-Cast:* Manolo Cardona .......
  
  (2001) as Diana McKenzie
• Siniestro (2001) as Leah Santos
• Padres e hijos
  Padres e Hijos
  Padres e Hijos was a long-running Colombian daytime series produced by Colombiana de Televisión. On August 21, 2009 the last Padres e Hijos episode of the series aired, due to the cancellation of its contract with Caracol TV.The program is mostly remembered for its longevity on Colombian...
  
  (2000) as Ximena
• Oki Doki (1992) as Marcelita

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