Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias was born on May 19, 1977 (Taurus and Snake in the Chinese Horoscope) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Natalia always knew that her calling would be interpretation, and started taking her first theater classes at the age of 8. When she became 12 she was called to participate in advertisements in her country. Without having achieved fame she performed with other ten thousand contestants from all over Latin America in a casting where Xuxa's paquitas were being selected. Of c