Aarón Díaz
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Aarón Díaz Spencer is a Mexican actor
, singer, and model
.
, Jalisco
, Mexico
to a Mexican father and an American mother and lived for several years in Palo Alto
, California
. He finished high school in Palo Alto, before returning to Mexico to study at the exclusive Televisa
Acting School Centro de Educación Artística
(CEA).
He plays drums and loves singing; he especially likes listening to the music of Carlos Santana. He is also active in sports, he likes soccer and swimming.
He made his acting debut in the popular teen drama Clase 406
. In 2004, he followed Clase 406 with another teen drama titled Corazones al límite
co-starring Sherlyn
and Sara Maldonado
. He then played the role of the older Andrés Romero in the telenovela
Barrera de amor
starring Yadhira Carrillo
. He starred along former flame Sherlyn in Mexico's own version of Grease entitled Vaselina.
Diaz signed on in 2006 with Pedro Damian, (creator of Clase 406') for the teen telenovela called Lola...Érase una vez
, co-starring Eiza González
and Grettell Valdez
which premiered on February 26, 2007 on "Canal 5
" in Mexico.
During the 2008 California State election Diaz was a spokesperson for a pro proposition 8 campaign which aired on Univision
.
Apart from acting, Díaz is also a singer and he released his first album entitled "Enamórate de mí" in June 2009. His second album self-titled "Aaron Diaz," was released in 2011.
In August 2009, the magazine People en Español
named him the most handsome in the list of "The 25 most handsome men."
In 2010/2011 he was the main protagonist alongside Angelique Boyer
and Sebastián Rulli
in the latest version of the telenovela Teresa
, playing the role of Mariano.
In November 2011, Díaz made his debut in an American television show in the ABC
series Pan Am, playing the role of Miguel, a dashing, charming, and wealthy entrepreneur in the episode 'Unscheduled Departure'.
For the first time in his career Díaz will play an antagonist role in the upcoming 2012 telenovela, El Talismán
, were he will play the role of Antonio Negrete.
, with whom he was co-starring in Clase 406 and Corazones al Limite. He has also dated Kate del Castillo
, who he had an on-again off-again relationship with for two years. On August 29, 2009 they got married in Las Vegas at Viva Las Vegas chapel accompanied by friends. On September 5, they married in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato in an Episcopal church. On July 26th, 2011, it was announced that Kate and Diaz were separating.
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, singer, and model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
.
Biography
Aarón Díaz was born in Puerto VallartaPuerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican balneario resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas.The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 255,725 making it the sixth-largest city in the state of Jalisco...
, Jalisco
Jalisco
Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
to a Mexican father and an American mother and lived for several years in Palo Alto
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. He finished high school in Palo Alto, before returning to Mexico to study at the exclusive Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
Acting School Centro de Educación Artística
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa is an entertainment educational institution in Latin America. It was founded on September 26, 1978 and it is located in the facilities of Televisa San Ángel in Mexico City....
(CEA).
He plays drums and loves singing; he especially likes listening to the music of Carlos Santana. He is also active in sports, he likes soccer and swimming.
He made his acting debut in the popular teen drama Clase 406
Clase 406
Clase 406 is a Mexican telenovela , which was produced by and broadcast by Televisa and aired in Canal De Las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States. The series aired from July 2, 2002 to October 2003 in Mexico. The series had four seasons and 344 one-hour episodes in total...
. In 2004, he followed Clase 406 with another teen drama titled Corazones al límite
Corazones al límite
-Plot:Corazones al límite was a Mexican telenovela about a teenage girl named Diana who was emotionally neglected from her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents...
co-starring Sherlyn
Sherlyn
Sherlyn Montserrat González Díaz better known just as Sherlyn is a Mexican actress and singer. She is currently a member of the band Camaleones.- Biography :...
and Sara Maldonado
Sara Maldonado
Sara Maldonado is a Mexican actress.-Biography:Sara Maldonado Fuentes was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico to Mario Maldonado and Sara Fuentes. She has two older brothers, Mario and Jesús and one sister, Fabiola....
. He then played the role of the older Andrés Romero in the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Barrera de amor
Barrera de amor
Barrera de amor was a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2005.-Plot:Maria Teresa Galvan or Maite, is a beautiful young woman who is engaged to Luis Antonio Barrera de amor was a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in...
starring Yadhira Carrillo
Yadhira Carrillo
Yadhira Carrillo Villalobos is an actress and former beauty queen.-Early career:Yadhira Carrillo was chosen Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes in 1994...
. He starred along former flame Sherlyn in Mexico's own version of Grease entitled Vaselina.
Diaz signed on in 2006 with Pedro Damian, (creator of Clase 406') for the teen telenovela called Lola...Érase una vez
Lola...Érase una vez
Lola... Érase Una Vez ' is a teen targeted Mexican melodrama telenovela produced by Televisa that is an adaptation of the Argentine global phenomenon and teenage telenovela Floricienta...
, co-starring Eiza González
Eiza González
Eiza González Reyna, Eiza González Reyna, Eiza González Reyna, (born January 30, 1990 in Caborca Sonora, México, is a Mexican actress and singer, and the daughter of former model Glenda Reyna...
and Grettell Valdez
Grettell Valdéz
Grettell Valdez is a Mexican actress. She is noted for her performances in Mexican telenovelas. Her husband was actor Patricio Borghetti.- Personal life :...
which premiered on February 26, 2007 on "Canal 5
Canal 5 (Televisa Network)
Canal 5 is a television network owned by Televisa, broadcasting from Mexico City and originating from its flagship station, XHGC-TV. Most programming on this station is intended for children and young people, while at night usually features foreign drama and action series, as well a movies...
" in Mexico.
During the 2008 California State election Diaz was a spokesperson for a pro proposition 8 campaign which aired on Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
.
Apart from acting, Díaz is also a singer and he released his first album entitled "Enamórate de mí" in June 2009. His second album self-titled "Aaron Diaz," was released in 2011.
In August 2009, the magazine People en Español
People en Español
People en Español is a Spanish-language American magazine published by Time Inc. that debuted in 1996, originally as the Spanish-language edition of its publication People...
named him the most handsome in the list of "The 25 most handsome men."
In 2010/2011 he was the main protagonist alongside Angelique Boyer
Angelique Boyer
Angelique Boyer is a French-born Mexican actress, model, and singer. She started her career playing secondary roles in the telenovelas Rebelde, Muchachitas como tú, and Corazón Salvaje. In 2010, she was given her first protagonist role in Teresa, a remake of the 1959 telenovela of the same name...
and Sebastián Rulli
Sebastián Rulli
-Biography:Before becoming the successful actor that he is today, Sebastián Rulli began his career modeling in many different countries in Europe, namely Spain, Italy and France as well as in Mexico and the United States...
in the latest version of the telenovela Teresa
Teresa
Teresa, Theresa, and Therese are feminine given names. The name is thought to be derived from the Greek verb θήρίζεἰν therizein, meaning to harvest....
, playing the role of Mariano.
In November 2011, Díaz made his debut in an American television show in the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
series Pan Am, playing the role of Miguel, a dashing, charming, and wealthy entrepreneur in the episode 'Unscheduled Departure'.
For the first time in his career Díaz will play an antagonist role in the upcoming 2012 telenovela, El Talismán
El Talismán
El Talismán is an upcoming 2012 telenovela co-produced by Venevision and Univision Studios, starring Blanca Soto and Rafael Novoa as the main protagonists, and Aarón Díaz and Lola Ponce as the main antagonists...
, were he will play the role of Antonio Negrete.
Personal life
Díaz has dated SherlynSherlyn
Sherlyn Montserrat González Díaz better known just as Sherlyn is a Mexican actress and singer. She is currently a member of the band Camaleones.- Biography :...
, with whom he was co-starring in Clase 406 and Corazones al Limite. He has also dated Kate del Castillo
Kate del Castillo
Kate del Castillo is a leading Mexican film, theater, and television actress.- Early life :Kate Del Castillo is the daughter of Kate Trillo and Eric del Castillo, a legend of the Mexican cinema's golden era and a former soap opera actor himself...
, who he had an on-again off-again relationship with for two years. On August 29, 2009 they got married in Las Vegas at Viva Las Vegas chapel accompanied by friends. On September 5, they married in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato in an Episcopal church. On July 26th, 2011, it was announced that Kate and Diaz were separating.
Filmography
- 2001: El Juego de La Vida in a minor role
- 2003: Clase 406Clase 406Clase 406 is a Mexican telenovela , which was produced by and broadcast by Televisa and aired in Canal De Las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States. The series aired from July 2, 2002 to October 2003 in Mexico. The series had four seasons and 344 one-hour episodes in total...
as Enrique "Kike" González - 2004: Corazones al limiteCorazones al límite-Plot:Corazones al límite was a Mexican telenovela about a teenage girl named Diana who was emotionally neglected from her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents...
as Braulio Vallardes Stone - 2005: Barrera de AmorBarrera de amorBarrera de amor was a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2005.-Plot:Maria Teresa Galvan or Maite, is a beautiful young woman who is engaged to Luis Antonio Barrera de amor was a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in...
as Andrés Romero - 2006: Amor Xtremo as Sebastián
- 2007: Lola...Erase una vezLola...Érase una vezLola... Érase Una Vez ' is a teen targeted Mexican melodrama telenovela produced by Televisa that is an adaptation of the Argentine global phenomenon and teenage telenovela Floricienta...
as Alexander Von Ferdinand - 2007: Plaza SesamoPlaza SésamoPlaza Sésamo is an educational children's television series for preschoolers, which is the Spanish-language adaptation for Latin America of Sesame Street. Both programs are pioneers of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment.The program was first...
as Doctor - 2008: Terminales as Sebastián
- 2010: Teresa as Mariano Sanchez Suarez
- 2010: DinosharkDinosharkDinoshark is a 2010 low budget Syfy horror film. It was shown on Syfy on March 13, 2010-Background:The film premiered on Syfy on the evening of March 13, 2010 before 2 million viewers...
as Luis - 2011: Pan AmPan Am (TV series)Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, the series focuses on the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of the commercial jet age.Sony licensed the rights...
as Miguel Ortiz (Epidode: "Unscheduled Departure") - 2012: El TalismánEl TalismánEl Talismán is an upcoming 2012 telenovela co-produced by Venevision and Univision Studios, starring Blanca Soto and Rafael Novoa as the main protagonists, and Aarón Díaz and Lola Ponce as the main antagonists...
as Antonio Negrete
External links
- Aaron Diaz Aaron Diaz Official Website
- Aarón Díaz Clothing Line PERRA Clothing Line
- Aaron Diaz Central Aaron Diaz Central - English Fan site