Carina Liliana Zampini (born 12 September 1975) is an Argentine actress and television host.

Biography

As a girl Carina began to participate in different

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s. Carina, study acting since age 9.

Career

As a teenager, Carina worked in a supermarket selling ceramic dishes when she went for a casting in Canal 13. Her profile did not suit a role in the soap opera ''Amigovios'', since at 20 she was very big compared to the cast, but too small to be the teacher. However, Carina was offered a test, she improvised a monologue and this led to her career as a television actress. Alejandro Romay, the "Zar de la televisión" wanted to sign a contract with her. The fiction chosen was a

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of Canal 9. In the year 1995, she was selected to play the beautiful and evil Carla Lucero. Her role was scheduled only for a couple of months, however it lasted a year and a half. Carla Lucero, the good one that became very bad, passed without identity change to ''Ricos y famosos'', soap opera starring

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. Her character was on the air for two consecutive years, consecrating it as one of the most remembered and recognized bad ones of the Argentine television. For her character she received the award ''Viva'' in 2000 to the best soap opera villain, in

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. In the year 1998, she participated as a guest actress, playing Vera Vázquez, in ''

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'', a soap opera of Canal 13. In the year 1999, she co-starred in the unit ''Por el nombre de Dios'', with Alfredo Alcon and

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. And in 2000 she was Mercedes, in '' Calientes'', also from Canal 13 and Pol-ka, respectively. Between 2000 and 2001 she was selected to put herself in the shoes of María Méndez, protagonist of the soap opera ''Luna salvaje'' was broadcast by

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. That was her first protagonist as a fiction couple with the actor Gabriel Corrado. In the year 2002, the beautiful actress played Lucía Ledesma in ''Franco Buenaventura, el profe'' character who fell in love with her literature teacher, played by

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, she left the cycle midway through the season. In the year 2004, she returns to play a villain in '' Padre Coraje''. In mid 2005, Carina Zampini is integrated to the leading cast of the soap opera '' Hombres de honor'', starring Gabriel Corrado and

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. The following year she played Romina Franccini, protagonist of ''Collar de Esmeraldas'', along with

, and produced by

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for the afternoons of Canal 13. In the year 2008 she returned to television, in the second season of ''

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'', in the character of Dr. Fernanda Almirón, another villain. A pediatrician who suffers from bipolarity and double personality. She participated in the theater play ''Flores de Acero'', in Julia's character, along with

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. Between 2012 and 2013 she starred with Sebastián Estevanez the soap opera ''

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'' playing Victoria Bandi, a businesswoman who owns a candy empire. Due to the success of the soap opera ''

'', producer Quique Estevanez summons her again to be the protagonist of '' Camino al Amor'' along with Sebastián Estevanez and again on the screen of

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Television

Television Programs

Theater

Awards and nominations

References

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