Verónica Castro

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Verónica Castro in the opening credits for Los ricos también lloran

Verónica Castro (born October 19, 1952 in Mexico City) is a Mexican actress, singer and host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and Michell Castro and the sister of telenovela producer José Alberto Castro.

She started her career as a television actress, where she met Manuel "El Loco" Valdez, father of her son Cristian, and in fotonovelas and telenovelas while earning her degree in international relations.

1 Acting career
2 Albums
3 Films
4 Telenovelas
5 TV shows
6 External links

[edit] Acting career

Verónica Castro on the cover of magazine Caballero

Her first brush with fame came appearing nude on Caballero magazine, a men's magazine published in Mexico City, when she was only 16 years of age. After appearing in a series of films and telenovelas her career took off with Los ricos también lloran, playing a poor orphan. This telenovela became a success in Latin America, Spain, France, Russia, China and the Philippines. Two years later she played the main role in the telenovela version of El derecho de nacer. In 1987 her career got a huge boost internationally when she played the main character in Rosa salvaje alongside Guillermo Capetillo. The theme song for that telenovela, also named "Rosa salvaje", became one of her biggest #1 hits as a singer. In 1990 Castro participated in Mi pequeña Soledad, where she had to play both a 40-year-old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20-year-old daughter ("Soledad"), who was the product of the rape.

During the 1990s began hosting variety shows, and has continued to do so since. Her son, Cristian, is a teen idol singer across Latin America and the United States, She, and Christian's father, Manuel Valdés, have never married. Castro's private life has become fodder for paparazzi photographers and gossip magazines.

She has dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel and actor Omar Fierro. She has been rumored to have had an animosity towards telenovela actress Lucia Mendez and singer Lupita D'Alessio after Castro dated one of Lupita's ex-lovers. Currently she hosts Big Brother VIP 4. Previously, she hosted Big Brother VIP 2, Big Brother VIP 3 (Season 1 & 2) and Big Brother 3-R.

[edit] Albums

Verónica Castro on the cover of her album Por esa puerta (2005)

Sensaciones (1978)
Aprendí a Llorar (1979)
Norteño (1980)
Cosas de Amigos (Duets with Cristian Castro) (1981)
El Malas Mañas (1982)
Sábado en la Noche Tiki-Tiki (1982)
Tambien Romantica (1983)
Hermano Cantare, Cantaras (La Lambruna de Africa, duets, charity recording) (1985)
Esa Mujer (1986)
Simplemente Todo (1986)
Maxi Disco (El Remix de Macumba) (1986)
Reina de la Noche (1987)
Maxi Disco (disco version of Reina de la Noche) (1988)
Mamma Mia (1988)
Viva La Banda (1990)
Mi Pequeña Soledad (1990)
Solidaridad (duets duets, charity recording) (1990)
Rap de La Movida (1992)
Romanticas Y Calculadoras (1992)
Vamonos al Dancing (1993)
La Mujer del Año (Obra de Teatro) (1995)
De Colección (1996)
La Tocada (1997)
Ave Vagabundo (1999)
Imágenes (2002)
Por esa Puerta (2005)