Mariana Seoane
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Mariana Seoane García is a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 actress, model and singer. She is a native of the city of Parácuaro
Parácuaro
Parácuaro is a municipality of Michoacán, Mexico. It is a Chichimeca word for "Place where has it own sticks for one roof".-History:In the PreHispanic era, Parácuaro is thought to have been inhabited by Nahuas and later conquered by the chief Tarasco Utucuma.During the colonial period, the Spanish...

, in the state of Michoacán
Michoacán
Michoacán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia...

.

Biography

Born to an Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 mother and a Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

n-Mexican father, Seoane demonstrated an interest in becoming an entertainer since a very early age. She began acting and singing professionally as a teenager. It is the former career, however, that has brought her much fame in Mexico and Latin America.

In 1995, Seoane made her acting debut on a Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

 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"...

, when she appeared on Retrato de Familia ("Family Photo"), alongside Alfredo Adame, Helena Rojo
Helena Rojo
Helena Rojo is a leading Mexican film, theater and television actress.-Biography:She began her career as a model in the early-1960s. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renown Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 1968 in the film El club...

 and Julio Bracho. Seoane played Aracely in Retrato de Familia.

During 1996, Seoane played Sandra in Los Hijos de Nadie ("Nobody's Children"), where she acted with Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 Osvaldo Ríos
Osvaldo Ríos
Osvaldo Ríos born Osvaldo Ríos Alonso on October 25, 1960 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, is a Puerto Rican actor, model, singer, and guitarist, of Armenian descent, who is best known for his roles in telenovelas...

. Seoane then acted in Cancion de Amor ("Love Song"), a soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 geared towards teenagers and young adults. In it, she shared credits with young actors like Eduardo Capetillo
Eduardo Capetillo
Eduardo Capetillo is a Mexican actor and singer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He belongs to the Capetillo family, who have a long tradition of being bullfighters....

, Jorge Salinas
Jorge Salinas
Jorge Salinas Pérez is a Mexican television and film actor, best known for his leading roles in telenovelas.-Career:His first participation on screen was in the movie Viva El Chubasco, next to Antonio Aguilar and Eulalio Gonzalez...

 and Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas is a Mexican television and film actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas.-Early life:...

, as well as with veterans such as Joaquín Cordero
Joaquín Cordero
Joaquin Cordero is a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre, and telenovelas.-Biography:Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Mexico City, and in the following years he studied in a seminary and even considered becoming a priest, but eventually he decided to pursue a law career...

, Guillermo García Cantú, Lorena Rojas
Lorena Rojas
Lorena Rojas is a Mexican actress and singer, a song writer and best known for her leading roles in popular Telenovelas.- Biography :...

 and Jaime Garza. Seoane played Roxana in Cancion de Amor.

Seoane continued on with her acting career in 1997, when she filmed Mi Pequeña Traviesa ("My Little Daredevil"), with Anahí
Anahí
Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla, better known as Anahí , , is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. She gained international fame after being cast as Mia Colucci in the hit Mexican telenovela Rebelde, and as a member of the Latin Grammy-nominated pop group RBD..- Acting career :At the age of 2,...

, Rafael Inclan, Enrique Rocha and future spouses Hector Soberon
Héctor Soberón
Héctor Soberón Lorenzo , better known as Héctor Soberón, is a Mexican actor.-Acting career:...

 and Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth Paetau is an American-Mexican actress, best known for starring in telenovelas.- Biography :...

. Having given life to the character of Bárbara in that soap opera, Seoane then proceeded to take a two year lay-off from telenovelas after that. But she returned in 1999, when she had her first opportunity of starring in a telenovela, acting as Adriana in Amor Gitano
Amor Gitano
"Amor gitano" is a latin pop duet song by Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández and American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. The song contains a mixture of cultures, mostly influenced by the exotic language of Fernández, that is Spanish, and Knowles' pop and R&B influences...

("Gypsy Love"), where Islas was her co-star. Seoane also acted in Tres Mujeres ("Three Women") that year, sharing the scene with Laura Flores
Laura Flores
Laura Flores is a Mexican actress, hostess and singer, born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.- Biography:...

 as well as such up and coming actors as Dominika Paleta
Dominika Paleta
Dominika Paleta Paciorek de Ibarra is a Polish-Mexican actress.She is the daughter of musician Zbigniew Paleta and Barbara Paciorek Paleta, and the sister of actress Ludwika Paleta.-Life:...

, Eduardo Verastegui
Eduardo Verástegui
Eduardo Verástegui is a Mexican model, singer, and actor.- Biography :Verástegui was born in Mante, Tamaulipas, México and was raised as a devout Roman Catholic. He moved to Mexico City to pursue modeling, landing work with Calvin Klein among others...

 and future husband and wife Bobby Larios
Bobby Larios
Bobby Larios is a Mexican actor.-Biography:Bobby Larios was born to Diego Hernández a family of five. His mother, a master of "garnachas", is Maria de Jesus, but she is most well known as Doña Chuy. He suffered tragedy early on in life, when his sister, Alejandra, died of cancer. He also has a...

 and Niurka Marcos
Niurka Marcos
Niurka Marcos is a Cuban-born Mexican singer, dancer, actress, and erotic model. She is known professionally simply as Niurka.-Personal life:...

, among others. Seoane played Marcela Duran in Tres Mujeres.

After a two year hiatus from television, Seoane returned in 2001, making her comedy debut in Diseñador, Ambos Sexos ("Designer of both Sexes") a comedy about a fashion designer who pretended to be homosexual in order to get close to women.

Seoane played Ernestina Soto in Atrévete a Olvidarme
Atrévete a Olvidarme
Atrévete a Olvidarme was a short-lived Mexican telenovela.Running for only one month in 2001, the program starred Adriana Fonseca and Jorge Salinas....

("Dare to Forget Me"), a telenovela which was also run during 2001, with Jorge Salinas and Adriana Fonseca
Adriana Fonseca
Adriana Fonseca Castellanos is a Mexican actress.- Biography :Adriana started her acting career performing in a local television show. At the age of 16 she was accepted in C.E.A. in Mexico...

 as stars. Seoane has made a total of four soap operas where Salinas also acted.

In 2003, Seoane was offered her second starring role on a telenovela, when she participated as Rebeca Linares in Venevision
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...

's production, Rebeca.

Seoane then recorded her first CD, which was released during 2004. Sere Una Niña Buena ("I'll be a Good Girl"), her first discographic production, became a mild success in Seoane's show business career. It peaked at number 42 in the Top Latin Album in Billboard and her first single peaked at number 18 in the Hot Latin Tracks. Que no me faltes tu was her second single, which was successful, it peaked number 6 in the Hot Latin Tracks. Her second album was released in 2005, La nina buena ("The Good Girl"), it peaked number 38 in the Top Latin Albums in Billboard and the first single, Una de dos, reached number 22 in the Hot Latin Track; her second single was No vuelvo mas, which peaked 42 in the Hot Latin Tracks. In 2006 she released Con Sabor a... Mariana; the first single of this album was Mermelada. This album was less successful than the two previous albums. Her latest album was recorded in 2007, titled Mariana esta de fiesta... atrevete, and the single was Atrevete.

During 2005, a well known Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...

 gossip magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 in the United States sponsored a contest where winners would get a photo and a copy of the Sere una Niña Buena CD personally autograph
Autograph
An autograph is a document transcribed entirely in the handwriting of its author, as opposed to a typeset document or one written by an amanuensis or a copyist; the meaning overlaps with that of the word holograph.Autograph also refers to a person's artistic signature...

ed by Seoane. Noting that three of the twenty contestants that won the prizes were from Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

, Seoane made sure to mention that country on her New Year's Eve Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 celebration show's speech.

, Seoane was invited to appear on the famous 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"...

, La fea más bella
La fea más bella
La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea...

. She appears as Karla, who falls quickly in love with Fernando Mendiola, played by Jaime Camil
Jaime Camil
Jaime Federico Said Camil de Saldaña da Gama is a Mexican actor, singer and host.-Biography:Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Camil is the son of Jaime Camil Garza, a very successful Mexican businessman, and Cecilia Saldaña Da Gama, a Brazilian singer...

.

At the end of 2007 Seoane personifies an evil villain in Juan Osorio
Juan Osorio
Juan Mauel Osorio is a Mexican telenovela and music producer.-References:...

's 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"...

 Tormenta en el Paraiso
Tormenta en el paraíso
__FORCETOC__ Tormenta en el Paraíso is a telenovela that was made by Televisa. This telenovela has a blend of new talents and with figures of extense experience in the television, and it began filming scenes in locations in the states of Quintana Roo and Veracruz on September 20, 2007...

.

In November 2009 she stars in Nathalie Lartilleux's 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"...

 Mar de Amor
Mar de amor
__FORCETOC__Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux and stars Zuria Vega and Mario Cimarro and antagonistic Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta....

.

Telenovelas

  • Mar de Amor
    Mar de amor
    __FORCETOC__Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux and stars Zuria Vega and Mario Cimarro and antagonistic Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta....

    as Oriana Parra-Ibañez Briceno (2009–2010)
  • Mañana es para siempre as Chelsy (photographer and friend of Erika) - Villain
  • Tormenta en el Paraiso
    Tormenta en el paraíso
    __FORCETOC__ Tormenta en el Paraíso is a telenovela that was made by Televisa. This telenovela has a blend of new talents and with figures of extense experience in the television, and it began filming scenes in locations in the states of Quintana Roo and Veracruz on September 20, 2007...

    as Maura Durán/Karina Rosemberg. Villain
  • La Fea más bella
    La fea más bella
    La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea...

    as Karla (2006–2007)
  • Rebeca
    Rebeca
    Rebeca Pous Del Toro is a pop-eurodance singer, producer, songwriter and actress.-Biography:She is daughter of the singer Franciska and the painter José María Pous....

    (2003) as Rebeca Linares
  • Diseñador ambos sexos (2001)
  • Atrévete a olvidarme (2001) as Ernestina Soto
  • Amor gitano (1999) as Adriana
  • Tres mujeres (1999)as Marcela Duran
  • Mi pequeña traviesa (1998) as Bárbara
  • Los Hijos de nadie (1996) as Sandra
  • Canción de amor (1996)
  • Retrato de familia (1995)

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