Celebrity Biographies
DANIELA SANTIAGO: HER AGE, HER TRANSITION PROCESS AND HER LIFE AFTER ‘VENENO’
Born in Malaga in 1982, her childhood and adolescence were not easy due to the bullying she suffered during those years. To escape from that environment, she decided to become independent from it as soon as she could and moved to Madrid to start a new life.
In the capital, she had a very clear objective: to save money for her sex change operation. For this, she decided to work in the world of the night as a go-go artist, also as a make-up artist, hairdresser and even a telemarketer, but the cost of such an intervention is so high that she could not manage to achieve it.
His mother decided to give him the greatest gift of his life by paying for the intervention, valued at 30,000 euros. «I have given you life once and I feel guilty that you were not born as you really are. If I have to give it to you again, I’ll give it to you », she told him.
Although in her life she could already boast of having a great change, the truth is that Daniela Santiago experienced a new radical turn when she went to a casting for the series ‘Veneno’. Before she had already been able to make a first film appearance in ‘All about my mother’, playing a prostitute in a small role.
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo gave her the opportunity to be the protagonist of the series by getting into the skin of Cristina Ortiz when she was already an adult. Together with the late Isabel Torres and Jedet, she embodied the protagonist.
The three won an Ondas award and were nominated for Feroz and Forqué for their performances. Since then, job offers began to arrive immediately. Almodóvar counted on her again for Parallel Mothers and even worked on a Cavali campaign. In addition, in April 2022, she published the book ‘My little world’, in which she tells the story of her overcoming and her complicated life.
HIS TIME ON ‘MASTERCHEF CELEBRITY 7’
In 2022, he ventured to participate in ‘MasterChef Celebrity 7’ against María Zurita , Norma Duval, Patricia Conde, Pepe Barroso, Isabelle Junot, Fernando Andina, Manu Baqueiro, Nico Abad, Daniela Santiago, Xavier Deltell , María Escoté, Emmanuel Esparza , Lorena Castell , Eduardo Rosa and Ruth Lorenzo.