Jacqueline Arenal

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Jacqueline Arenal is a renowned and accomplished Cuban actress with an extensive career in the island's cinema and television. 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 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 native Cuba, where she achieved notable success and garnered public support through 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 he met a very young Alexis Valdés who would become  her first husband, in 1992: Plaff or Too Much Fear of Life and in 2001: Looks, 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 for Colombian television series. She was chosen 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 fellow 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 his daughter is in Madrid, Spain.