Jaime Camil

About

Jaime Federico Said Camil de Saldanha da Gama (born 22 July 1973) is a Mexican actor, singer, and television personality. He is best known for his roles as Fernando Mendiola in La fea más bella and Rogelio de la Vega in Jane the Virgin, the latter of which earned him two nominations for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Camil was born on 22 July 1973 in Mexico City, Mexico. He is the son of Jaime Camil Garza, an Egyptian businessman, and Cecilia Saldanha da Gama, a Brazilian singer. His mother is a descendant through her mother of the Visconde de Abaeté, a former Brazilian Minister of finance and a patrilineal descendant of the 6th Count of Ponte, a Portuguese colonial administrator of Bahia from 1805 to 1809, and thus a descendant of one of the grandees of Portugal, of the upper court nobility.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Universidad Anáhuac; studied acting in New York, Los Angeles, and London; and took classical opera training in Italy.

Camil started his career in 1993 as a radio commentator on Radioactivo 98.5. In 1995, he made his small-screen debut as a host in El show…