Biography of Itatí Cantoral

Who is Itatí Cantoral?

Itatí Cantoral Zucchi better known only as Itatí Cantoral is an actress and singer who has excelled in several series and telenovelas such as La mexicana y el güero, Silvia frente a ti, José José, El Chema, among others. Itatí Cantoral was born on May 13, 1975 in Mexico City and to this day is well remembered for her iconic character of Soraya Montenegro in the telenovela María la del barrio in 1995.

Biography of Itatí Cantoral

Beginnings in the life of Itatí Cantoral

The career of the now famous actress Itatí Cantoral began when she had some small participations in the program La telaraña in 1988 but later and before continuing in acting she preferred to study to have enough tables and face any character and role she had as an actress, this was how she entered the Center for Artistic Education of Televisa the CEA to start her acting career.

It was in 1991 and after having finished his studies at the CEA when the producer Emilio Larrosa included Itatí Cantoral in the cast of the telenovela Muchachitas being this his first great opportunity on television and then appeared in the melodrama La pícara soñadora, starring the late actors Mariana Levy and Eduardo Palomo.

Trajectory and history of Itatí Cantoral

The career of Itatí Cantoral was on the rise and in a short time she was called to make more characters in different telenovelas such as “De frente al sol, Dos mujeres y un camino”, among others but in 1995 would come the role that would undoubtedly catapult her to international success and that to date remains the most iconic of her entire acting life “Soraya Montenegro de la Vega” in the telenovela “María la del Barrio” which marked a before and after in all aspects of his life.

In the following years Itatí Cantoral continued to participate in several telenovelas in which many managed to be the protagonist, some of them were “Amigas y rivales, Sin pecado concebido, Vale todo, El alma herida, Desciciones, La viuda de Blanco, Tiempo final, Mujeres Asesinas, Hasta que el dinero nos separe, El sexo débil, Capadocia, Fortuna, Amores con trampa, Quien mató a Patricia Soler, El Vato, El Chema, José José el príncipe de la canción“, among many others, Also in the theater he has participated in several stagings such as “Cinderella, Don Juan Tenorio, Cabaret, Frida Kahlo, Cuarteto, Mame, Into the Woods, Idiota“, among others and in the cinema in films such as “No manches Frida 2, The perfect dictatorship, Love of my loves, tired of kissing toads”, among many more.

Silvia Pinal, frente a ti was a biographical television series produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa based on the life and book Esta soy yo: Silvia Pinal by Silvia Pinal. The bioseries starred Itatí Cantoral who played the first actress of the golden age Silvia Pinal. Curiously, the series was initially said to have been canceled but that time helped Itatí Cantoral to soak up Silvia’s life a little more and when they gave the green light to the series to perform she could represent it in the best way: “First I had to study all her filmography. We had a year of pre-production, we hadn’t planned it that way, but it was because the project was postponed. When things don’t work out in a moment, it’s because they’re going to be better, and they did. We had a year of pre-production and it gave us time to study all the details that the series required.”

The experience of making and starring in the biography of taken to the screen in “Silvia Pinal frente a ti” was “a lot of learning” and according to Itatí Cantoral “that you have to organize, help people and above all live happy and content, with a smile”.

At the end of August 2020 and after several weeks of delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the telenovela La mexicana y el güero premiered with touches of romantic comedy produced by Nicandro Díaz González for Televisa. The telenovela starred Itatí Cantoral and Juan Soler, along with Luis Roberto Guzmán, Laura Vignatti and Tania Lizardo in the antagonistic roles. In the telenovela “La mexicana y el güero” the story is told of a cunning swindler ends up madly in love with the man she intends to swindle. Other actors and actresses who also participated in the telenovela were Gala Montes, Julio Camejo, Nora Salinas and Iran Castillo, among others.

“La mexicana y el güero” is a melodrama that addresses the life of an American millionaire who faces the pain of having lost his adoptive mother, who while almost dying asks her son to travel to Mexico to look for his biological mother taking a little comedy and romanticism in each scene, As the story goes by but in its step. Later Tyler Sommers (Juan Soler) arrives at the family of some scammers who intend to take his money but that is when Andrea Ibarrola Gil (Itatí Cantoral) realizes that he is beginning to feel something for his victim and things begin to change and several unexpected situations arise.

In the telenovela “La mexicana y el güero” Itatí Cantoral played ‘Andrea Ibarrola‘ who discovers that the American millionaire ‘Tyler Somers’ will arrive in Mexico after the death of his adoptive mother in search of his biological mother and decides to create a fake family to steal him in order to take all his money but shortly after he realizes that he begins to feel something for him which changes his initial plans of strip him of all his property. About her leading role in this telenovela Itatí Cantoral commented: “I am very excited, I have many feelings, I am very sensitive for this strong time of crisis of pain, of loss in the world, I feel grateful to God, to the Televisa company, to Nicandro, with the life of being able to go out to undertake a new project, to bring money to our homes and to have this beauty that is to work and feel useful for others. “

The telenovela La mexicana and El güero remained in history as the first Televisa melodrama shot and premiered on air in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic since in order not to stop the recordings of this new story anymore, all the safety and health protocols imposed by the federal government had to be followed. “The pandemic is beyond anything any of us could have imagined. Because we have had people from the production and characterization team who have been infected. One is aware that at any moment anything can happen. The main idea is to take care of ourselves. And we have a series of protocols established by the company that are part of the international level protocols,” said producer Nicandro Díaz González.

Curiously over the years the popularity of Itatí Cantoral has never dropped, this due to her iconic scene of the telenovela “María la del Barrio” where she has a strong discussion in which she highlighted the phrase “Maldita lisiada” which has not only made her the protagonist of several memes but the new generations have even come to know her for her endearing character of Soraya Montenegro . Faced with so much success that continues to have for a soap opera so many years ago Itatí Cantoral has commented how happy he makes it: “It’s incredible, it’s a way to get closer to young people, to be current and to know who I am. Without having proposed it, I have reached an audience that no longer watches soap operas and that evidently did not see me at the time, so for me it is a blessing, “he told the singer.

Then in 2021 the Mexican actress Itatí Cantoral was in charge of giving life to the villain of the movie “Minions: Nace un villano”, prequel to “Despicable Me”. “I’m the teacher of ‘Gru’, the director of villainy. So, if you want to be good villains, join me, girls. It’s now or never,” she said very happy to be participating in this film for children that would bring her closer to an audience she never imagined. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” the English name of the film narrated the origins of the famous character “Gru”, an evil young man who, in collaboration with his yellow cronies the famous Minions, try to conquer the whole world.

A great success was scored by Itatí Cantoral in his professional career when he premiered “Se rentan cuartos” a Mexican television series initially broadcast by Comedy Central, Paramount + and later on channel 5 of televisa. In the series “Rooms are rented” a family with a lot of money by chance of fate is bankrupt so they have to move to an old house in a humble neighborhood of Mexico City, in which they must rent some rooms to be able to subrevive but above all deal with the different personalities that will end up staying in that place.

“Se rentan cuartos” became a great success for Comedy Central so later Televisa acquired the rights to be able to transmit it in its programming as if that were not enough, it managed to have several seasons due to the good reception it had from the public, also undoubtedly gave a great success to Itatí Cantoral.

In the series “Se rentan cuartos” the actress Itatí Cantoral played Graciela Garza, she was also sharing credits with other great figures of acting such as Itatí Cantoral (Graciela Garza), Paco Rueda (Bobby Garza), Yare Santana (Stef), Jorge Ortín (El Chofer), Armando Hernández (Pepenacho), María Chacón (Shantallé), Carlos Espejel (Chicopasote), Irving Peña (Tato), Claudia Álvarez (Lucía), Regina Orozco (Mamanacha), Alejandra Ley (Megan), among others.

In August 2021, the reality show called “El Retador” premiered in which some participants should show their best talents to continue within the program and thus become the true experts in their respective fields.

The jury of “El Retador” was made up of Itatí Cantoral but it was also surprising to see Lucero with Mijares who since their separation had not had such a close television presentation so their mere presence was a success. It was also attended by Berth Oh, one of Mexico’s favorite youtubers; Consuelo Duval and Sofía Escobosa as hosts of the reality show that at that time was competing against “Exatlón” on TV Azteca directed by Antonio Rosique.

One of the great successes achieved in his career occurred in mid-2022 when “Donde hubo fuego” premiered a dramatic web series in soap opera format released exclusively for Netflix and initially had thirty-nine episodes which was rare since by that time the series that Netflix made were only 10 chapters maximum so it really bet a lot on the series and so it was Well, it achieved very good audience levels. In the series “Donde hubo fuego” the actress Itatí Cantoral played Gloria Carmona.

Couples and couples of Itatí Cantoral

Itatí Cantoral and Carlos Alberto Cruz

Itatí Cantoral and Carlos Alberto Cruz, met in 2006 when he was production coordinator of the telenovela “La viuda de Blanco” on the Telemundo network, a telenvoela that starred actress Itatí Cantoral and being the set the place where his love story was born. During the recordings both forged a good friendship and later decided to join their lives to start a relationship together that finally was also very important for the life of Itatí Cantoral after his break with Eduardo Santamarina because he married Carlos Alberto Cruz.

In the middle of 2020 Itatí Cantoral decided to talk a little more about the reasons for his separation with his ex and said that he did everything possible so that their relationship could continue to bear fruit but things did not go with her he expected: “I did many things to maintain that marriage, he, in the end, did not. I used all the methods to improve a marital relationship, my son Eduardo made me understand ‘mom, now, you already did everything’, and it gave me peace that he told me. I was brave, because it is not easy to make a decision like that and I said: ‘my life is already consumed, I already feel very sad, I don’t want to go anywhere anymore, I was very sad, I cried every day. Is this how I want to spend the rest of my life?'” he told an Imagen Entretenimiento show.

Itatí Cantoral and her ex-husband Eduardo Santamarina

In 1999, Itatí Cantoral married actor Eduardo Santamarina after they began to have a very nice relationship which undoubtedly everyone would have thought would last forever pus really always look very happy and quite in love, one of the other, thanks to this beautiful relationship the couple brought to this world their twins Roberto Miguel and José Eduardo , who were born in 2001 but three years later the unthinkable happened when the couple decided to divorce and take different paths in 2004 due to an infidelity of Santamarina with the actress Susana González.

The scandal that originated later between Eduardo Santamarina and Itatí Cantoral was very big because nobody could believe that one of the most solid couples in the middle of the show was ending and they began to see Susana González with bad eyes assuring that she had been the culprit that Eduardo Santamarina and Itatí Cantoral They broke their marriage but curiously after a while the actor also ended up with Susana González to start a relationship with Mayrín Villanueva.

Itatí Cantoral confessed that her husband’s betrayal hurt her a lot at the time, but that today they are very good friends for the well-being of their children because they really want to see them happy and their discussions are over.

Pack de Itatí Cantoral

Although on social networks and on the internet people look a lot for the Itatí Cantoral pack or photos in which you can see with little clothes or in sensual poses, the truth is that at present there is no pack of Itatí Cantoral more than those photos that the artist has published in his own networks and that could be considered sexy.

How much is Itatí Cantoral’s fortune?

This is one of the questions that people ask most about Itatí Cantoral and although they always end up answering it on other pages with a “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that several web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Itatí Cantoral within the middle of the show, even so more than being interested in the fortune of a person the important thing is the talent he has and that I have made him within the great figures of the international entertainment medium.

Without a doubt, the career of this great star Itatí Cantoral will continue to rise and we will be attentive to everything that happens around him, so we invite you not to leave our page for the next updates we will have in the life, trajectory, history and biography of Itatí Cantoral.