Cristina Saralegui

On July 7, 2003, Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson was a featured guest on Saralegui's show. Backus is an aspiring actor, who has appeared on the television show Will & Grace, but the couple met when he took her order at the restaurant where he was working as a waiter. In 2001, she started the recurring role of Tia Cristina Lopez on the American soap opera Passions. On June 11, 2004 she married Christopher Backus in a private ceremony; the marriage did not become public knowledge for more than two weeks. She also has several offers to keep acting, including one to appear on The George Lopez Show. Sorvino dated Quentin Tarantino for several years and more recently French actor Olivier Martinez. As an actress, Cristina debuted on The Taina Show. Since then she has had offers for co-leading and supporting roles, some of them having become box-office hits, such as Romy and Michele's High School Reunion opposite Lisa Kudrow, and At First Sight with Val Kilmer.

She added a Monday night version of her show, but ultimately, her daily show was cancelled and now she only has the Monday night show. The breakthrough role in Sorvino's early career was her portrayal of a squeaky-voiced, foul-mouthed prostitute in Woody Allen's 1995 movie Mighty Aphrodite, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she is seen on the cover of Maria Antonieta Collins' books, sponsoring them. Reviews of her first film performance were positive, which opened her doors for her following parts. Cristina went on to publish her own magazine,(Cristina, La Revista) and several books. Soon she was promoted to casting director and to assistant producer, and was finally offered the lead role in the movie. In another, Trevi spent a large amount of time crying while talking about her life. When the 1993 picture Amongst Friends entered pre-production, she was hired as third assistant director.

In one of her most viewed shows, she put Edgardo Diaz face to face with one of the former members of Menudo, Ralphy Rodriguez, so they could confront each other over allegations of abuse that Rodriguez had made against Diaz. One of her jobs was as production assistant in a film company. During the 1990s, Cristina's show increased in popularity, her show guests including Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Celia Cruz, Thalía, Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, Jorge Ramos, Gloria Estefan and her husand Emilio, Gloria Trevi, Chayanne, Ricky Martin and many more. Like so many other young actors, she worked at several jobs, waiting for an opportunity in show business. Cristina around that time got married to her husband Marcos, a former member of the Miami Sound Machine music band. After graduating from college, she spent three years in New York trying to make a name for herself as an actress. She led Cosmopolitan through most of the 1980s, and in 1988, she began transforming her journalism success into television success, when she started her TV talk show, El Show de Cristina, on Univision. She also speaks French.

Eventually she worked her way up to becoming the editor of the Spanish version of Cosmopolitan magazine. She is also a political activist affiliated with Amnesty International. She spent a year abroad in China, and speaks Mandarin Chinese. Saralegui was a student in the University of Miami, when she got an internship with Spanish language magazine Vanidades (the Spanish version of Vanity Fair). Her thesis was on anti-African sentiment in China (see Nanjing Anti-African protests). Cristina's family had built their wealth in the world of newspaper publishing. She was at Harvard University, where she graduated "summa cum laude" in East Asian Studies. A member of a prominent family, Saralegui moved to Miami, in 1960, when she was 12 years old. Nevertheless, Sorvino acted in theater productions while in high school and later in university.

Cristina Saralegui (born January 29, 1948) is a successful journalist, talk show host and actress who is a native of Cuba. She was raised in New Jersey and dedicated most of her childhood to academic studies rather than preparing for an acting career, as her father did not want his three children to become young movie stars. Sorvino was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, and is the daughter of veteran actor Paul Sorvino (whose credits include Goodfellas, Oliver Stone's Nixon, and TV's Law & Order). Mira Sorvino (born September 28, 1967) is an Oscar-winning American actress, who has appeared in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion,At First Sight, Blue in the Face, Summer of Sam and Mighty Aphrodite. Amongst Friends (1993).

Barcelona (1994). Quiz Show (1994). The Dutch Master (1994). Mighty Aphrodite (1995).

Blue in the Face (1995). Beautiful Girls (1996). Tarantella (1996). Sweet Nothing (1996).

Tales of Erotica (1996). New York Cop (1996). Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). Mimic (1997).

The Replacement Killers (1998). Too Tired to Die (1998). Lulu on the Bridge (1998). Free Money (1998).

At First Sight (1999). Summer of Sam (1999). The Triumph of Love (2001). The Grey Zone (2001).

The Great Gatsby (2001). Wisegirls (2002). Semana Santa (2002). Between Strangers (2002).

Gods and Generals (2003).