Early Life and Career
Cris Morena was born María Cristina De Giacomi in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the youngest of four siblings and grew up in Palermo, Buenos Aires neighborhood with her upper-middle-class family. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a sociologist. She studied at a traditional private religious school. When she was 17, she started working as a fashion model and became the popular face for Lee Jeans in the country. While she was modeling, she also studied social assistance in university and militated alongside Padre Carlos Mugica during the dictatorship in Argentina.
When she was 17 years old, she was selected to host the young-oriented show Voltop. While working the program, she met Gustavo Yankelevich, which was part of the staff, and they fell in love. In 1974, Cris and Gustavo married and, after giving birth to Romina and Tomas, Cris decided to retire so she could take care of the two.
With her husband unemployed due to discriminating polices implanted by the next Argentine dictatorship (Gustavo is a Jew), she returned to work doing underground theater and soon got a job at a telenovela called Dulce Fugitiva. She played Laura Moreno. Afterwards, she decided to adopt Laura's last name as her artistic name and became Cris Morena.
In 1980 Cris Morena, who was already a pianist, decided to start writing music. To this days she is the most successful songwriter in Argentina and the one who made most money in copyrights and albums sales in SADAIC's history (Argentina's songwriters association) alongside her former songwriting partner Carlos Nilson.
Soon, her acting career started to take-off and in 1984, she was one of the stars of iconic comedy show Mesa de Noticias.
Later, she also had a starring role in Amigos son los Amigos. Her last appearance as an actress was starring the telenovela Quereme in 1994 and, afterwards, she retired from acting. In 1995, she also retired as a host and as a public figure and became a full-time producer and songwriter. In a talk for TEA Imagen students, she revealed she believed her successful past in acting was due to her charisma, not her acting skills since, in her opinion, she was never a particularly good actress.
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