Valeria Vera — Acting | Biography, Movies & Career

Biography

From the age of 6 she entered Televisa's art workshop under the direction of Martha Zavaleta, where she practiced disciplines such as ballet, jazz, fencing, singing, acting, stage management, among others. Among the teachers were Irma Montero, Gabriela Cárdenas and Jorge Becerril, and there was also a mambo workshop taught by Adalberto Martínez "Resortes".

At the age of 11, she was part of the musical group A.T.M. along with Horacio and Israel, classmates from the same workshop, a project created by Mildred Villafañe in 1990, who also produced Flans. At the end of 1992 the project was dissolved due to the closure of the Melody record label.

Later, in 2001, after having participated in the Peruvian soap opera Boulevard (1997), together with Jorge D'alessio, she formed the group B.A.S.E. with Dann, Lui, Gerson and Tana, in which she also began to compose. They released an album of eleven songs with the singles "Pisando Raya" and "Niña Rebelde".

In 2004, thanks to Gerardo Quiroz and Juan Carlos "El Borrego" Nava, he was cast for the role of Anybody's (which in the Mexican production was called X), when she went with some friends to the audition for Amor sin Barreras.

After this work and her participation in the telenovela Mujer de madera (2004), she stopped acting and became a production assistant at Endemol in order to study acting in the United States, but after being accepted into the academy and receiving an invitation to a professional course for foreigners, she had the opportunity to participate in Nacho Cano's Hoy No me Puedo Levantar in 2006, so she decided to stay in Mexico to play the role of Patricia Luli.

In the following years she expanded her experience in theater with her participation in the plays Chicas Católicas (2007), Avenue Q (2008), Show Roxana Castellanos, 7 Mujeres (2011), Ni princesas Ni esclavas (2011) and Divorciadas (2011). In addition to participating in the films Pamela (2008) and Casi divas (2008).

In 2015 she presented on Broadway with the play Que no se culpe a nadie de mi muerte, a story by Humberto Robles in which she plays five characters: the grandmother, the mother, the boyfriend, the sister and the protagonist. During the same year she presented it in Mexico, and performed it again in 2017 at the Foro Shakespeare.

In mid 2019 she got married in Zacatlán de las Manzanas, Puebla, to Lucía Cano, where Jannette Chao composed a song for the ceremony.