Mexico is a country known for welcoming foreigners with great warmth and opening its doors to everyone. For this reason, many celebrities have chosen this spectacular country to continue growing with their careers and have adapted so well that it is practically impossible to tell if they were born in another place or have different roots.
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On Genial.guruwe decided to dig a little deeper into the family tree of celebrities and we bring you a list of those artists that we have known all our lives as Mexicans, but their parents are natives of other countries or they themselves were born in other lands.
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1. Cristopher Uckermann is half Swedish
The full name of the former member of the RBD group is Christopher Alexander Luis Casillas von Uckermann. His father is Mexican and his mother, Marie Christina Alexandra von Uckermann, is from Sweden. The woman arrived in Mexico Thanks to her work as a model and, despite the fact that she divorced Christopher’s father when he was very young, Mexico City was always her home and that of her son.
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2. Salma Hayek is a mixture of different roots
Despite the fact that the actress was born in the Mexican state of Veracruz and proudly carries the name of her country in style, Salma she is heiress from various cultures. His father, businessman Sami Hayek, is of Lebanese origin, and his mother, Diana Jiménez, of Spanish origin. Additionally, the star resides between the United States, France (where she is her husband from) and England. Therefore, we can say that Salma is indeed a citizen of the world.
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3. Chavela Vargas was born in Costa Rica
Although the legendary singer is probably one of the greatest exponents of the ranchera song in Mexico and she herself to define as “Mexican”, actually born in San Joaquin de Flores, Costa Rica. Her real name is María Isabel and, after a complicated childhood in Costa Rica, Mexico was the country that welcomed her and she became her home for more than 80 years.
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4. Mauricio Ochmann was adopted by a Mexican family in the United States
In reality, the arrival of the actor in Mexico was marked by destiny, since Mauricio was born in Washington, D. C., United States. the little that the actor knows of his biological parents is that his mother was an American teenager and his father a Spanish teenager. A family of Mexicans living in the United States adopted him and, later, when his adoptive parents divorced, his mother moved with Mauricio to Mexico.
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5. Ana Patricia Rojo has Spanish and Peruvian ancestry
The actress has been part of the most successful Mexican telenovelas, such as Esmeralda, Wooden woman and Distilling love. His father is the renowned actor Gustavo Rojo, who was the son of Spanish parents born in Uruguay; however, he achieved artistic success in Mexico. On the other hand, Ana Patricia’s mother is the former Miss Peru 1961 Carmela Stein.
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6. Sebastián Zurita has his Argentine side
Sebastián is the son of the famous Mexican actor Humberto Zurita and the late actress and producer Christian Bach. Christian was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, although in 1979 moved to Mexico to boost her career as an actress. In 1986, she starred in the telenovela Thoroughbred with Zurita. That same year Sebastian was born and his first performance It was in a telenovela produced by his parents.
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7. Jaime Camil and his Brazilian origin
The handsome heartthrob who gained international fame thanks to telenovelas like The most beautiful ugly and the Serie Jane the Virgin He is the son of the Mexican businessman Jaime Camil Garza and the Brazilian painter Cecilia Saldanha-Da Gama Pérez. after his parents They got divorcedJaime lived from the ages of 5 to 12 in Brazil with his mother. However, at 12 he returned with his father to Mexico and had the opportunity to achieve success in acting.
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8. Issabela Camil is half American
Issabela, Jaime’s stepsister, does not actually share family blood ties with the actor. Its real name is Erika Ellice Sotres Starr, and is the daughter of the Mexican Armando Sotres and the American model Tony Starr. When the actress was 9 years old, her mother married Jaime Camil Garza, so she practically grew up in the Camil family. To boost her artistic career, she decided to change her name to Issabela Camil in the 90s.
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9. Aarón Díaz grew up with the Mexican-American culture
Aarón Díaz Spencer is the son of Gilberto Díaz and the American Robin Spencer. The actor grew up from a young age with both cultures and, despite the fact that the beginnings of his artistic career were in Mexico, he currently resides in the United States. Aarón is also trying to raise his daughters in a multicultural environment, since his wife has Argentine and Italian roots.
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10. Natalia Lafourcade inherited a taste for music from Mexico and Chile
Singer winner of 14 Latin Grammy Awards is the daughter of the Mexican pianist María del Carmen Silva Contreras and the Chilean musician Gastón Lafourcade. In 1973, Gaston moved to the Mexican country and became a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Natalia has always expressed her pride in being Mexican, although she continues to keep her Chilean roots very much in mind.
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11. Karla Souza also carries Chile in her veins
The actress who opened the doors of success after starring in the film We the noble She is the daughter of a Chilean father and a Mexican mother. carla showed his talent from a very young age and was educated in the best drama schools in France and England. Currently, she resides in the United States, so we can say that the artist is quite cosmopolitan and knowledgeable about many cultures.
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12. Esmeralda Pimentel has Dominican genes
Esmeralda born in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, and since she turned 18 she ventured into the world of modeling. What few know is that the father of the beautiful actress who rose to fame with soap operas like The neighbor and Falling in love with Ramon he is from the Dominican Republic, while his mother is Mexican.
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13. Laisha Wilkins has Cuba in her blood
Laisha Is recognized for being a great villain of telenovelas like The force of Destiny and A hook to the heart. The actress was born and raised in Mexico, but in her genes and her last name she leads to Cuba. Her mother is Mexican, but her father Federico Wilkins is from the island country.
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What other nations does your family have roots from? Tell us if you know someone else — a celebrity, your partner or even friends — who carries in their genes the mixture of various cultures.
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