Bárbara Mori

About

Bárbara Mori Ochoa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaɾβaɾa ˈmoɾjoˈtʃoa]) (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer, and writer. She is best known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela Rubí, one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Since 2005, she has appeared as the lead in several Hollywood and Bollywood films, including My Brother’s Wife (2005), Violanchelo (2008), Insignificant Things (2008), produced by Guillermo del Toro, Kites (2010), Cantinflas (2014), and Treintona, soltera y fantástica (2016).
Mori started her career in 1992 as a fashion model at the age of 14. Later she became an actress when she co-starred in 1997 on the smash TV-hit Mirada de mujer with TV Azteca; then, she starred in the telenovela Azul Tequila (1998). She has also appeared in several lists as one of the most beautiful Mexican actresses of all time.

Mori was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on February 2, 1978. Her paternal grandfather was Japanese. Her mother is of Lebanese descent. She has two siblings, actress Kenya Mori and Kintaró Mori. Her parents divorced when she was three years of age. Mori spent her early childhood between…