Lorena Bernal


Lorena Bernal Pascual is an Argentine-Spanish actress, television host, and model.

Early life

Bernal was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. She moved to San Sebastián, Spain, when she was a year old, and studied at the French Lycée Français de Saint Sebastién in the city, then at Maurice Ravel school in Saint Jean de Luz across the border in France. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Career

She worked as a model since the age of 7 and started with drama classes at the age of 13. She was Miss Spain 1999 at the age of 17 and could not represent the country in Miss Universe due to her age, so went instead to Miss World where she was between the 10 finalists.
Since then she has worked as a model, TV host and specially actress in Spain and in the US where she appeared, among others, in the American television show Chuck as an international arms dealer or as a nanny named Mia in the episode "My Nanny."

Personal life

She is married to Spanish former footballer Mikel Arteta, the former captain and current head coach of the Premier League football club, Arsenal. The couple had their first child, Gabriel, in 2009, in Spain, and their second child, Daniel, in 2012, and their third child, Oliver, in 2015, also in Spain.

Filmography