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Profile of Laura Zapata
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Laura Zapata |
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30th July 1956 |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
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Laura Zapata (born in 1952) is a famous Mexican telenovela actress. She has acted at Televisa productions most of her life.
Zapata is the half sister of singer ThalÃa and of Ernestina Sodi, a famous writer. Zapata was the first one of the family to gain international fame, acting in such soap operas as Rosalinda, Pobre Nina Rica and, specially, Rosa Salvaje, alongside Veronica Castro. In Maria Mercedes, one of Thalia's first soap operas, she opposed her sister, playing a villain. She is equally known for her jobs as a villain as she is for her works as a good person.
On September of 2002, Zapata and her sister Ernestina were kidnapped and taken to an unspecified location. The news of their kidnapping made headlines across Latin America and among the Spanish speaking television channels of the United States. Thalia is married to billionaire Tommy Mottola, so it was speculated that their captors would ask for a large sum of money.
Instead, Zapata was released ten days after her kidnapping, and her sister Ernestina five days after Zapata.
In January of 2004, Zapata once again made headlines; gossip shows talked about an alleged dispute between her and her sisters about Zapata's intentions to make a play based on her and Ernestina's kidnapping. Zapata announced she will put that project on hold and concentrate on another play, one which stars former Menudo Johnny Lozada, but as of 2005 the play based on her kidnapping was about to be premiered, despite legal threats from Thalia, which doesn't appear in the play but it's mentioned. Ernestina agreed to be portrayed in the play .
On the United States and Canadian versions of August 22, 2005's edition of Mira! magazine, an article was published, alleguing that Zapata and Sodi's kidnappings had been planned from a jail in Peru. According to the articles, a Mexican drugdealer who is jailed in Lima placed calls to the Mexican location of Tiaxplana, to plan the kidnappings and set a prize of 5 million dollars for the two sisters.
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