Jacqueline Arenal

Jacqueline Arenal is a renowned and celebrated Cuban actress with an extensive career in the cinema and television of the island. She was born in Havana, Cuba, on April 10, 1968.

Her passion for acting started when she was young. She is also the daughter of the late playwright and writer Humberto Arenal and actress Martha Farre, which means her love for the arts and the world of entertainment is almost innate.

He graduated in 1990 from the Higher Institute of Art of Cuba.

She began her artistic career in her native Cuba, where she gained recognized success and public support for her appearances, especially on television. Cubans will remember her for her characters in memorable telenovelas such as: Si me pudieras querer, as Dr. Marcia, Tierra brava, as Verena Contreras, De tu sueño a mi sueño, as Mariana, or Ellas son así.

In the film "The Age of Enlightenment," she met a very young Alexis Valdés, who would become her first husband, in 1992: "Plaff or Too Much Fear of Life" and in 2001: "Gazes," "Belmonte" (1995) or "A Paradise Under the Stars" (1999).

In 2005, she settled in Colombia, where she continued her career as an actress and characterized numerous characters for Colombian television series. She was selected in Havana by RCN Televisión to travel to Bogotá to bring to life the antagonist of the series Los reyes, and from that moment on, she began living in the Central American country and became a well-known and regular actress in Colombian television series.

In 1995, she married the also Cuban actor Mijayl Mulkay, the father of her only daughter, Camila Bordón Arenal. Ten years later, they divorced, and she married the renowned Colombian director, writer, and actor Enrique Carriazo, from whom she divorced in 2015.

Arenal currently resides in Cuba and her daughter in Madrid, Spain.