| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Ivette María Cordovez Usuga June 24, 1979 Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá |
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| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Hair color | Brunette |
| Eye color | Green |
Ivette María Cordovez Usuga is a Panamenian news presenter, actress, model, and former winner of Señorita Panamá. She was born in Panama City, Panama on June 24th, 1979. She started her actress career after participate in beauty pageants.
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Cordovez, who is 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall, competed in the national beauty pageant Señorita Panamá 2000, on Thursday September 1, 2000 and obtained the title of Señorita Panamá Universo.[1].
Ivette went on to represent Panamá in Miss Universe 2001, which took place in Puerto Rico. She was the official representative of Panamá in the 50th Miss Universe 2001 pageant, held at Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico on May 11, 2001.
After being crowned Señorita Panamá 2000, Cordovez she worked for the then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, at the same time she was responsible for the training of the candidates for Señorita Panama 2001 & 2003.
She moved to London, U.K., where she took acting lessons in Central School of Speech and Drama and singing lessons in Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. She worked in Public Relations and completed an undergraduate diploma in Management at Birkbeck College.
Decided to pursue a television career, she moved to Mexico City in 2007 after being invited to follow an acting training program at Televisa, the world's major producer of soap-operas in Spanish. She began her career in TV novels and miniseries.[2]
In 2008 she worked in the comedic Mexican telenovela Las Tontas No Van al Cielo which was extremely successful in Latin American. After finishing filming with Las Tontas No Van al Cielo, Cordovez worked in Sortilegio, the popular series La Rosa de Guadalupe and Central de Abastos, among others.
Cordovez returned to Panama in 2011 and participated in the female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, where she played Vera.
Ivette Cordovez is currently working as an executive at TVN. There she set up an Acting for TV course, directed by Alejandra Israel, the former Televisa's acting teacher.
She started as the news presenter for TVN Weekend News on November, 2011.
| Preceded by Analía Núñez |
Miss Panamá Universe 2000-2001 |
Succeeded by Justine Pasek |