Verónica Castro (born October 19 1952 in Mexico City) is a well-known Mexican actress, singer and host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and Michell Castro and the sister of telenovela producer José Alberto Castro and Betty Sheridan
She started her career as an actress in TV shows, where she met Manuel "El Loco" Valdez, father of her son Cristian, and in fotonovelas and telenovelas while earning her degree in International Relations.
Acting career
Her first brush with fame came appearing nude on Caballero magazine, a men's magazine published in Mexico City, when she was only 16 years of age. After appearing in a series of films and telenovelas her career took-off with Los ricos también lloran, playing a poor orphan. This soap became a success in Latin America, Spain, France, Russia, China and the Philippines. Two years later she played the main role in the telenovela version of El derecho de nacer. In 1987 her career got a huge boost internationally when she played the main character in Rosa salvaje alongside Guillermo Capetillo. The theme song for that telenovela, also named Rosa salvaje, became one of her biggest #1 hits as a singer. In 1990 Castro participated in Mi pequeña Soledad, where she had to play both a 40-year-old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20-year-old daughter (Soledad), who was the product of the rape.
Castro embarked during the 1990s into the world of variety show hosting, and she has done that successfully for 12 years now. Her son, Cristian Castro, is a teen idol singer all over Latin America and the United States and is the son of a famous Mexican comedian Manuel El Loco Valdez who Verónica never married. Many of Veronica's private life's details have become items for paparazzi photographers and gossip magazines to feast on.
She has dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel and actor Omar Fierro. She has been rumored to have had an animosity towards soap opera actress Lucia Mendez and singer Lupita D'Alessio after Castro dated one of Lupita's ex-lovers. Currently she hosts Big Brother VIP 4. Previously, she hosted Big Brother VIP 2, Big Brother VIP 3 (Season 1 & 2) and Big Brother 3-R.
Albums
- Por esa Puerta (2005)
- Imágenes (2002)
- Ave Vagabundo (1999)
- La Tocada (1997)
- De Colección (1996)
- La Mujer del Año (Obra de Teatro) (1995)
- Vamonos al Dancing (1993)
- Romanticas Y Calculadoras (1992)
- Rap de La Movida (1992)
- Solidaridad (A Dueto con muchos Artistas para una buena causa) (1990)
- Mi Pequeña Soledad (1990)
- Viva La Banda (1990)
- Mamma Mia (1988)
- Maxi Disco (Version Disco de Reina de la Noche) (1988)
- Reina de la Noche (1987)
- Maxi Disco (El Remix de Macumba) (1986)
- Simplemente Todo (1986)
- Esa Mujer (1986)
- Hermano Cantare, Cantaras (La Lambruna de Africa, A Dueto con muchos Artistas para una buena causa) (1985)
- Tambien Romantica (1983)
- Sábado en la Noche Tiki-Tiki (1982)
- El Malas Mañas (1982)
- Cosas de Amigos (A Dueto con Cristian Castro su Hijo) (1981)
- Norteño (1980)
- Aprendí a Llorar (1979)
- Sensaciones (1978)
Films
- Dios se lo pague (1990)
- El ausente (1989)
- Chiquita pero picosa (1986) as Florinda Benitez/Flor
- Navajeros (1981) as Toñi
- Johnny Chicano (1981)
- Nana (1985)
- El niño y el Papa (1979) as Alicia/Guadalupe
- Nobleza ranchera (1977)
- Guadalajara es México (1975)
- Acapulco 12-22 (1975)
- El primer paso... de la mujer (1974)
- Volveré a nacer (1973) as María
- Novios y amantes (1973)
- Mi mesera (1973)
- Bikinis y rock (1972)
- Un sueño de amor (1972)
- El ausente (1972)
- El arte de engañar (1972)
- La fuerza inútil (1972)
- Cuando quiero llorar no lloro (1972)
- La recogida (1972)
Telenovelas
- Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1997) as Leonarda Ruán
- Valentina (1993) as Valentina Isabel Montero/Valentina de los Ángeles
- Mi pequeña Soledad (1990) as Isadora/Soledad
- Rosa salvaje (1987) as Rosa
- Amor prohibido (1986) as Nora
- Felicidad, ¿dónde estás? (1985) as Karina
- Yolanda Luján (1984) as Yolanda Luján
- Cara a cara (1983) as Laura
- Verónica: El rostro del amor (1982) as Verónica
- El derecho de nacer (1981) as María Elena
- Los ricos también lloran (1979) as Mariana Villareal
- Pasiones Encendidas (1978) as Martha
- Mañana será otro día (1976) as Gabriela
- Barata de primavera (1975) as Karina Labrada
- El dificio de enfrente (1972)
- El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971)
- No creo en los hombres (1969)
TV shows
- Big Brother VIP 4 (2005)
- Big brother 3R (2005)
- Big Brother VIP 3 (2004)
- Big Brother VIP 2 (2003)
- Big Brother VIP (2002)
- La tocada (1996)
- En la noche (1994)
- La movida (1994)
- Y Vero América va! (1992)
- Mala noche... no! (1989)
- Aquí está (1988)
- Algo muy especial de Veronica Castro (1986)
- Esta noche se improvisa (1984)
- Noche a noche (1980)
- Muy agradecido (1975)
- Sábado '72 (1972)
- Revista musical Nescafe (1972)
- Revista musical (1971)
- Operación Ja Ja (1966)