telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the w ...
'', theatre, film actress from the
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...
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García-Godoy was born in
Santiago de los Caballeros
Santiago de los Caballeros ("James, son of Zebedee, Saint James of the Knights"), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the capital of ...
. She is descended from Federico García Godoy (1857–1924), Cuban-born Dominican novelist, literary critic, historian and educator, son of Cuban-born Dominican poet and academician Federico García Copley (1890). She is also descended from Achille Fondeur, a Frenchman, brother of Colonel
Furcy Fondeur
Colonel Furcy Fondeur Lajeunesse (1814 – November 22, 1892) was a French-born Dominican Republic military man and politician.
Born in France, his family moved to the Spanish Captaincy General of Santo Domingo around 1820. His father was Louis ...
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In 2013, García-Godoy participated in the Luz García’s contest "''Cuerpos ''hot'' del verano''".