Maite Perroni Beorlegui (born March 9, 1983) is a Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 actress and singer/songwriter, who is best known for starring in Rebelde

Rebelde

Rebelde was a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and created by Cris Morena. It is a remake of a famous Argentine series Rebelde Way adapted for the Mexican audience therefore leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. The series ran for three seasons, the final episode airing in...

, Cuidado con el Ángel

Cuidado con el ángel

Cuidado Con El Ángel is a Telenovela distributed by Televisa. It stars Maite Perroni and William Levy. The telenovela, a production of Nathalie Lartilleux, premiered on June 9, 2008 and finished its broadcast March 6, 2009 and was greatly admired around the globe with millions of views worldwide...

, Mi Pecado

Mi Pecado

Mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009...

 and Triunfo del Amor. She gained international fame as a member of the Latin Grammy nominated pop group RBD

RBD

RBD was a two-time Latin-Grammy nominated Mexican pop group that gained popularity from Televisa's teen drama series Rebelde. RBD sold over 17 million digital downloads and over 20 million albums worldwide in four years since their formation, according to EMI...

. Univision named Maite Perroni as the new Queen of 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"...

s in 2009.
Maite Perroni Beorlegui was born in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 but she grew up in Guadalajara,until the age of 12,when her family moved back again in Mexico City.