Jacqueline Arenal is a renowned and accomplished Cuban actress with a extensive career in the island's film and television industry. She was born in Havana, Cuba, on April 10, 1968.
Her passion for acting began in her childhood. She is also the daughter of the late playwright and writer Humberto Arenal and actress Martha Farre, so 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 home country of Cuba, where she achieved notable success and received public acclaim for her appearances, especially 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; and Ellas son así.
In the cinema in the The Century of Lights 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: Glances, 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 television 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, 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 lives in Cuba and her daughter is in Madrid, Spain.
