Jacqueline Arenal

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

Her passion for acting started at a young age. She is also the daughter of the late playwright and writer Humberto Arenal and the actress Martha Farre, which means her love for the arts and the world of entertainment is almost ingrained from birth.

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

She began her artistic career in her homeland of Cuba, where she achieved notable success and garnered public support for her appearances, particularly on television. Cubans will remember her for her roles 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 cinema in the movie "El siglo de las luces," where she coincided with a very young Alexis Valdés, who would become her first husband, in 1992: "Plaff or Too Much Fear of Life" and in 2001: "Miradas," "Belmonte" (1995) or "A Paradise Under the Stars" (1999)

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

In 1995, she married the Cuban actor Mijayl Mulkay, 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 his daughter is in Madrid, Spain.