Laura Sánchez López (born 29 May 1981) is a Spanish

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and

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Modeling

Sánchez began her modeling career in Huelva, and broke through when Victorio & Lucchino, fashion designers in

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, hired her as a clothes model, although she fell down during their Spring/Summer 2001 fashion show (held in Madrid on 6 September 2000).Photo by Andrea Comas (REUTERS)
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Television work

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'' (''Paco's Men''), 2008-2010 - a

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comedy on Antena 3. Sánchez portrayed Pepa Miranda, a

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police officer who falls in love with and marries her squad's

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, Silvia Castro (portrayed by Marián Aguilera). She is heartbroken by the death of her wife and she seeks revenge to arrest the murderer. *'' La Fuga'' (''The Escape''), 2012 - a science fiction serial on

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Personal life

Born in

Groß-Gerau Groß-Gerau () is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district, lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse, Germany, and serving as a hub for the surrounding area. In 1994, the town hosted the 34th Hessentag state festival. Geo ...

West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

, her family relocated to

Huelva Huelva ( , , ) is a municipality of Spain and the capital of the Huelva (province), province of Huelva, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. Located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits betwee ...

when she was two months old. Sánchez had a relationship with

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Aitor Ocio, with whom she had a daughter, Naia, born on 1 August 2006, until the couple split in March 2009.

References

External links

Laura Sánchez
at the

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* Spanish female models Spanish film actresses 1981 births Living people Spanish television actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses People from Groß-Gerau Actresses from Hesse {{Tv-actress-stub