Sara Maldonado Fuentes (born March 10, 1980) is a Mexican actress, better known for her role as Lorena Alvarez from ''

El juego de la vida ''El juego de la vida'' (English: ''The game of life'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Fernández and Giselle Gonález Salgado for Televisa. It premiered on November 12, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2002. Sara Maldonado and ...

'', which was her first main role and her first

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. After this, she was the protagonist in other teenage soap operas like ''

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'' and ''

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''. She is also known as Camelia Pineda "La Texana" from ''

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'' and other main roles.

Biography

Maldonado was born in

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, Mexico to parents Sara Fuentes and Mario Maldonado. She has two older brothers, Mario and Jesús, and one sister, Fabiola. She studied acting at the

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for two years. In 2004, Maldonado also studied English and acting while residing in

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, Canada. She participated in the Mexican beauty contest "El Rostro del Heraldo", which was organized by newspaper ''

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'', and won first place.

Career

Maldonado made her acting debut as the protagonist in the

telenovela ''

'' (2001) as the role of Lorena "Lore" Alvarez. From 2002 to 2003, she starred in the teen telenovela hit ''

'' as Tatiana "Tatis" del Moral. In April 2004, she was chosen again to the leading role as Diana Antillón de la Reguera in the Televisa telenovela ''

''. She played the role as Paulina Cervantes Bravo in another Televisa telenovela '' Mundo de fieras''. In 2008, she played the lead role as Aymar Lazcano Mayú in another Televisa telenovela ''

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''. From November 2010 to May 2011, she played the title role in the

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telenovela ''

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'' for the first 103 episodes, before her character was killed off, following her dismissal from the show. She also had a part '' La Reina del Sur'' (2011) as "La Verónica". She also starred in the telenovelas ''El octavo mandamiento'' as Camila San Millán (one episode, 2011) and ''

'' (2014–15).

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * 1980 births 21st-century Mexican actresses Actresses from Veracruz Living people Mexican stage actresses Mexican telenovela actresses Mexican television actresses People from Xalapa {{Mexico-actor-stub