Juan Soler

Personal life

Soler was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina to Juan Valls and Quequi Quiroga, who are of Catalan and Galician descent. He has three siblings: Facundo, Maria Jose, and Maria Ines.^[2]

As a teenager he played rugby union and became part of the Argentine national team.^[3] He later became a model and started acting in plays in Argentina.

On December 20, 2003, he married actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky He owns a restaurant called El Che Loco in Mexico City. He has three daughters: Valentina, from a previous relationship, she was born in 1991 and lives in Argentina; the second daughter, Mia, was born on December 18, 2004, and his third daughter, Azùl, was born on February 20, 2007. Mia has a condition called Situs Inversus. In March 2005, Maki lost a pregnancy of three months.^[4]

Career

In 1994, after participating in the TV show Montaña Rusa and the play Juego de sociedad he decided to move to Mexico. There, he obtained small roles in two telenovelas with Televisa and in 1996 he starred in Cañaveral de pasiones which became the most successful production of that year. He then joined the cast of Verónica Castro's telenovela Pueblo chico, infierno grande, and the Mexican production of the play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead as Eddie, touring Mexico and the United States. He also appeared in the Peruvian telenovela María Emilia: Querida. He returned to Mexico in 2000 and has made five telenovelas as of 2005, including Locura de Amor and Bajo La Misma Piel, both of which co-starred Laisha Wilkins. Juan Soler appeared in the telenovela Apuesta por un Amor with Patricia Manterola in 2004, and it garnered him a best actor nomination. In 2006, he appeared in the popular Televisa hit La fea más bella.

Television