Lorena Herrera

Biography

Lorena Herrera de la Vega (born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico), known professionally as Lorena Herrera, is a Mexican singer and actress.

Biography

Lorena was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, and later moved with her family to Mexico City. She began her fashion modeling career there and quickly achieved success in Mexico, gaining international recognition by appearing in advertising campaigns across Mexico and South America. As a model, she won the "Look of the Year" contest in Mexico.
Following her modeling career, Lorena began working in Mexico's low-budget film industry. She has appeared in more than seventy-five films and also started her career in telenovelas.
In addition to acting, she has released six music albums, including five studio albums and one remix album titled Soy (Remix), released in 1997.
For her contributions to the film industry, recording industry, and television, Lorena Herrera's handprints were embedded in the Paseo de las Luminarias in 2012.

Soap opera

Lorena Herrera met producer Emilio Larrosa, who had Televisa connections, who gave her a chance to star in his 1991 telenovela production Muchachitas ("Young Girls"), which was a huge hit across Latin America.
She was then hired to participate in the mega-hit telenovela Dos Mujeres, un Camino, where she played the mistress of a villain.
Herrera has since acted in many other telenovelas, including El Premio Mayor. She is also a singer, having released various Mexican music CDs and toured Mexico and the United States. She has been approached by Playboy Mexico to pose nude for that magazine (she appeared in the Mexican Playboy in the December 1987 issue, under the name "Bárbara Ferrat"). She has also released various calendars in which she assumed sensual poses, and she posed naked for Playboy again in March 2011 at 44 years of age.
On the Univision show El Gordo y la Flaca, Lorena shared a bathtub with "El Gordo", Raul De Molina.
She worked as the evil stepmother of Lola (Monserrat) in Lola...Erase Una Vez. She is the mother of Grettell Valdez which interprets Carlota in Lola and she is also the mother of Zoraida Gomez in the soap opera Lola.
She has said that she likes singing, but acting is her favorite activity.
She has worked with Carla Estrada, Emilio Larosa, Pedro Damian and other producers.
She said recently on the Mentiras y Verdades show that she did not like to make novelas with Emilio Larrosa after El Premio Mayor told her that her part was going to be the antagonist.