| Aarón Díaz | |
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| Born | Aarón Díaz Spencer March 7, 1982 Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Spouse | Kate del Castillo ( August 2009 - July 2011 ) |
Aarón Díaz Spencer (born on March 7, 1982) is a Mexican actor, singer, and model.
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Aarón Díaz was born in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother and lived for several years in Palo Alto, California. He finished high school in Palo Alto, before returning to Mexico to study at the exclusive Televisa Acting School Centro de Educación Artística (CEA).
He plays drums and loves singing; he especially likes listening to the music of Carlos Santana. He is also active in sports, he likes soccer and swimming.
He made his acting debut in the popular teen drama Clase 406. In 2004, he followed Clase 406 with another teen drama titled Corazones al límite co-starring Sherlyn and Sara Maldonado. He then played the role of the older Andrés Romero in the telenovela Barrera de amor starring Yadhira Carrillo. He starred along former flame Sherlyn in Mexico's own version of Grease entitled Vaselina.
Diaz signed on in 2006 with Pedro Damian, (creator of Clase 406') for the teen telenovela called Lola...Érase una vez, co-starring Eiza González and Grettell Valdez which premiered on February 26, 2007 on "Canal 5" in Mexico.
During the 2008 California State election Diaz was a spokesperson for a pro proposition 8 campaign which aired on Univision.
Apart from acting, Díaz is also a singer and he released his first album titled "Enamórate de mí" in June 2009. His second album self-titled "Aaron Diaz," was released in 2011.
In August 2009, the magazine People en Español named him the most handsome in the list of "The 25 most handsome men."
In 2010/2011 he was the main protagonist alongside Angelique Boyer and Sebastián Rulli in the latest version of the telenovela Teresa, playing the role of Mariano.
In November 2011, Díaz made his debut in an American television show in the ABC series Pan Am, playing the role of Miguel, a dashing, charming, and wealthy entrepreneur in the episode 'Unscheduled Departure'.
In December 2010 he released a calendar for 2011 with pictures of himself, the calendar was a success so he decided to make another, his 2012 edition went on sale on December 2011.
For the first time in his career Díaz will play an antagonist role in the upcoming 2012 telenovela, El Talismán, were he will play the role of Antonio Negrete.
Díaz has dated Sherlyn, with whom he was co-starring in Clase 406 and Corazones al Limite. He has also dated Kate del Castillo, who he had an on-again off-again relationship with for two years. On August 29, 2009 they got married in Las Vegas at Viva Las Vegas chapel accompanied by friends. On September 5, they married in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato in an Episcopal church. On July 26th, 2011, it was announced that Kate and Diaz were separating.