Luisana Lopilato

Luisana Lopilato (L) and Valerie Dominguez speak onstage during the Los Premios MTV Latin America 2007 at the Palacio De Los Deportes October 18, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Getty Images)more pics »Luisana Lopilato de la Torre (born May 18, 1987, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actress and model, probably best known for portraying Mia Colucci in Argentine TV show Rebelde Way (2002-2003), but also in telenovelas like Chiquititas (1998-2001), Casados con Hijos (2005-2006), Alma Pirata (2006) and El Capo (2007), which were very successful, as well as on Encandilados, a mini-telenovela for cell phones. Currently, she is working on new telenovela 4x4 and film Papá por un Día.

Luisana Lopilato at Lost Premios MTV Latin America 2007.
Lopilato made her singing debut on telenovela Chiquititas, recording five Chiquititas soundtracks. However the worldwide success came with the band Erreway, with Felipe Colombo, Camila Bordonaba and Benjamín Rojas. Lopilato officially left the band in 2007, and is currently working on her first solo album.

Lopilato is also recognized as a model; she works for for Argentine high fashion brands 47 Street and Promesse. Luisana Lopilato currently dates tennis player Juan Mónaco.

Acting
Lopilato, who lists Andrea Del Boca among her career influences, made her television acting debut at the age of twelve, in 1999. She was chosen to play Luisana Maza in Chiquititas (known in English as Tiny Angels). She joined Chiquititas in its fifth season and stayed with the show until the very end, three years later. She also had a role in the movie of the aforementioned series.

She continued her acting career as Mia Colucci in Rebelde Way, and she began her career as a musician, in a group named Erreway. In 2002 Luisana Lopilato became a well-known teenage celebrity in Argentina thanks to her role in Rebelde Way. For three years she was one of the leads of Rebelde Way and core-member of Erreway. Erreway launched a CD that earned Lopilato a golden album award in Argentina. In 2004, she starred in Erreway: La Película (4 Caminos). During her time in Rebelde Way, she was featured in more than 50 magazine covers.[1]
Lopilato on the cover of Luz magazine (2007).

She received several subsequent acting offers and ended up signing with Pol-ka Productions, with which she did two telenovelas, Los Secretos de Papá and Los Pensionados. In 2005 she acted in Casados con Hijos, Argentine's version of Married with Children, playing Paola (in the original version her role was played by Christina Applegate), she starred alongside her real-life brother and two of Argentina's top-comedians Florencia de la Peña and Guillermo Franchella. This show earned Martín Fierro Award for the best comedy in 2006. Luisana herself received nomination for the best co-actress 2006. In 2006, she worked with producer Cris Morena on her show Alma Pirata.

In 2007, she was host of Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica, Latin MTV Awards, with Valerie Domínguez, Miss Colombia 2006. Argentine magazine Gente (Argentine People) named Luisana for "the face of the year". She also played in theatre play Arlequin, earning nomination for an Argentine ACE Award. She also appeared in telenovela El Capo, which was nominated for Martin Fierro Award for Best Television Comedy.

In 2008, when Bruce Willis visited Argentina, Luisana Lopilato was his guide. She starred in telenovela Encadilados, the first telenovela on cell phones ever. Each episode lasts four minutes. This telenovela is a telenovela for youth, made especially for cell-phones. Rodrigo González, Néstor Sánchez and Sabrina Garciarena also star. Lopilato also starred with Rodrigo Guirao on the theatre play La Cenicieta, which was premiered on May 17, 2008 at the Astral Theatre and had a large success. She also appeared in the animated film Plumíferos, which is waiting for its premiere in 2009.

Currently, Luisana is working on new soap opera, named 4x4, with Gabriel Goity, Rodrigo Guirao, Elías Viñoles, Camila Bordonaba and her brother Darío. She is also working on her new film, Papá por un Día.

Modeling
Since 2006, Lopilato is promoting 47 Street fashion house. As a model, Lopilato works for 47 Street fashion. Her first photos for 47 Street were taken in 2006, with Camila Bordonaba and Benjamín Rojas. She did 2007 campaign alone. In 2008, she did the campaign for Autumn-Winter fashion with more three models, Sumi, Nadia and Belén.

Since 2006, Luisana does campaign for Promesse swimsuits. In April 2008, she was one of the lead models (with her brother Darío, Soledad Solaro, Brenda Díaz, María Del Cerro and many others) on John Foos fashion show.

Source: Wikipedia