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Verónica Castro is a well-known Mexican actress and singer.
She started her career as an actress in the soap opera Los Ricos También
Lloran, playing a poor maid in a Mexican version of Cinderella. 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 soap opera, 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. She was married to the famous Mexican comedian El Loco Valdez and many of her
private life's details have become items for paparazzi photographers and gossip
magazines to feast on.
She is rumored to have dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel.
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