Celia Lorena Herrera de la Vega (born in
Mazatlán
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,
Sinaloa
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,
Mexico
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), known professionally as Lorena Herrera, is a Mexican singer and actress.
Biography
Lorena moved with her family to
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became highly successful in Mexico, and gained an international reputation, posing for advertisements in Mexico and South America. As a model, she won the "Look of the Year" contest, awarded in Mexico.
Lorena then began working in Mexico's
low-budget film
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s. She has been involved in more than fifty films since she began her career as an actress in soap operas.
She also has created six music albums, of which five are studio albums, and one is an album of remixes named ''Soy (Remix)'', released in 1997.
For her work in the motion picture and
recording industries as well as television, Herrera's handprints were embedded onto the ''
Paseo de las Luminarias'' in 2012.
Soap opera
Lorena Herrera met producer
Emilio Larrosa
Emilio Larrosa (born Emilio Larrosa Irigoyen in Mexico) is a Mexican producer who has produced telenovelas and soap operas for Televisa.
Filmography
Awards and nominations Premios TVyNovelas
The Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually b ...
, who had
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
connections. Larrosa gave her a chance to star in his
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
production ''
Muchachitas
''Muchachitas'' (English title: ''Girls'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1991. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s.
The lead roles are played by Cecilia Tijerina, Tiaré Scanda, Em ...
"'' ("Young Girls"), which was a huge hit across Latin America.
She was then hired to participate in the mega-hit telenovela ''
Dos Mujeres, un Camino
''Dos mujeres, un camino'' (English title: ''Two women, one path'') is a Mexican neo-noir telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1993-1994. This production was exhibited in 47 countries, including Indonesia, had high viewer ratings, ...
'', where she played the mistress of a villain.
Herrera has since acted in many other telenovelas, including ''
El Premio Mayor
''El premio mayor'', is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa and written by Verónica Suárez and Alejandro Pohlenz.
Carlos Bonavides, Laura León, Sasha Sokol and Sergio Goyri star as the main protagonists, while Claudio Báez, Lore ...
''. She is also a singer, having released various Mexican music CDs and toured Mexico and the United States. She has been approached by ''
Playboy Mexico'' to pose nude for that magazine (she appeared in the Mexican ''Playboy'' in the December 1987 issue, under the name "Bárbara Ferrat"). She has also released various calendars in which she assumed sensual poses, and she posed naked for ''Playboy'' again in March 2011 at 44 years of age.
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On the Univision
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show '' El Gordo y la Flaca'', Lorena shared a bathtub with "El Gordo", Raul De Molina
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Raul, Raúl or Raül may r ...
.
She worked as the evil stepmother of Lola (Monserrat) in '' Lola...Erase Una Vez''. She is the mother of Grettell Valdez
Grettell Valdez (; born July 7, 1976) is a Mexican actress and former model.
Biography
Born in Querétaro, Mexico, Valdéz's first acting role was in a telenovela called Sin ti between 1997 and 1998.
In 1998 she made a special appearance in the ...
which interprets Carlota in Lola and she is also the mother of Zoraida Gomez in the soap opera ''Lola''.
She has said that she likes singing, but acting is her favorite activity.
She has worked with Carla Estrada
Carla Estrada (born Carla Patricia Estrada Guitrón on March 11, 1956 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico) is a Mexican television producer, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.
Biography
In 2005, the Mexican government decided t ...
, Emilio Larosa, Pedro Damian and other producers.
She said recently on the ''Mentiras y Verdades'' show that she did not like to make novelas with Emilio Larrosa after ''El Premio Mayor'' told her that her part was going to be the antagonist.
Telenovelas
Filmography
* 1993 Amargo destino
Discography
''Soy'' (1996)
#"Tri Tri"
#"Soy"
#"Olvidate"
#"Los Pecados De Amor" (Single)
#"Oh Yeah!"
#"Pim Pam Pum"
#"Esa Soy Yo"
#"Corazonadas"
#"Yo Vivire"
#"Soy Remix"
''Soy Remix'' (1997)
''Desnudame El Alma'' (2000)
# "Ritmo Tequila"
# "Nunca Dejaré de Amarte"
# "Desnudame El Alma"
# "Despacito"
# "Dame Amor"
# "Sienteme"
# "Eo Deséo"
# "Más Allá Del Mómento"
# "El Amor Que No Tiene Rival"
# "Los Magos de La Noche"
''Sobrevivire'' (2003)
# "Sobreviviré"
# "Que Culpa Tengo Yo"
# "Dejame"
# "Mi Amor Por Ti"
# "Como La Flor"
# "Eres Mi Todo"
# "Que No Quede Huella"
# "De Que Me Sirve"
# "Obsesion"
# "Abrazame"
# "Abrazame (Jota Remix)"
''Aqui Estoy'' (2005)
# "Aquí Estoy"
# "Déjame"
# "Amame"
# "Abrazando Tu Recuerdo"
# "Oro Molido"
# "Callaré"
# "Vamos a Darnos Tiempo"
# "Envidia Me Da"
# "Recuerdos"
# "Baila Mi Ritmo"
''Desnudame El Alma'' (2009)
# "Desnudame El Alma"
# "Gritaremos Ante el Mundo"
# "Chica Espacial"
# "Sobredosis"
# "Ya"
# "Sexy Lover"
# "Sexy"
# "Dame Amor ersion en Espanol
# "Solo Quiero"
# "Dentro de Ti"
''Masoquista Single'' (2015)
''Flash Single'' (2015)
# "Flash (Versión Original)"
# "Flash (Versión NEIKO)"
''Plastik Single'' (2016)
''Karma Single'' (2016)
# "Karma"
# "Soy (Versión 2016)"
''FREAK Single'' (2017)
''TÓCAME Single'' (2018)
''SOY LA MÁS Single'' (2018)
References
Lorena Herrera from Televisa Website
Lorena Herrera on Myspace
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Living people
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican film actresses
Actresses from Sinaloa
Mexican women singers
Mexican female models
Mexican television personalities
Mexican vedettes
20th-century Mexican actresses
21st-century Mexican actresses
People from Mazatlán
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mexican LGBT rights activists