Marlene Favela

Silvia Marlene Favela Meraz (born on August 5, 1976 in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and model She is known for acting in many soap operas. These include Gata Salvaje, El Zorro, the Sword and the Rose, The Heirs of Mount and 's face Vengeance. She was also in the American movie Species - The Awakening.

Marlene Favela
Born	Silvia Marlene Favela Meraz (1976-08-05) August 5, 1976 Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Relatives	Carmen, Mabel, Alan, Deborah and Alejandro (siblings)

Biography

Favela started in show business as a model. She later studied at Centro de Educación Artística (Center of Arts Education) of Televisa in Mexico City. Favela made a first appearance as a cheerleader of a television program called Shrimp that falls Asleep.

Later, she began to work with soap operas. These included The Beach House, Baby Face, The Intruder and Between love and hate. Her first success came with Wildcat, because, previously, had always done roles; telenovela starring latter earned her the nickname "wildcat " for the general public.

She has also worked in theater with actors like Helena Rojo and Julio German, in Again, Sam and are unfaithful and do not look who. She was a presenter of a program called Meridian X, which dealt about extreme sports.

Later in soap operas and always participated in Bridal Veil, where facing the co-starring role, produced by Juan Osorio. She was in Ruby, under the production of José Alberto Castro, playing the character of Sonia, along with Barbara Mori

After these appearances she returned to star in a soap opera, with Against all odds, playing the character of Natalia Rios.

She starred in the telenovela Zorro, the Sword and the Rose was the first soap opera in history to HD, this is the most ambitious project of her career so far. The show was by Telemundo in collaboration with Sony Pictures and with a remarkable cast of actors like Christian Meier and Harry Geithner.

During 2008-2009 she took a break, in which she rejected the title roles of Doña Bella (RCN) and Beware the angel (Televisa ) with William Levy

In 2011 she returned to screens of Telemundo to star in the telenovela Del Monte Heirs again with Mario Cimarro. This production was recorded in Colombia and has actors such as Jose Luis Resendez, Roberto Mateos, and Natasha Klauss, among others.

In Hollywood she acted in the movie Species - The Awakening, with stars such as:Helena Mattsson, Adam Wylie, Ben Cross, Marco Bacuzzi and Dominic Keating.

In 2012 she returns to screens Venevision to star in the Passions of the Heart in which she won the lead role in history alongside Guy Ecker and Susana Dosamantes. This production is recorded in Miami and has actors Lorena Meritano, Daniela Navarro, Dayana Garroz, Carlos Guillermo Haydon among others. In late August, after signing an exclusive contract with Telemundo, the actress performs a dual role in The Bruiser Where does a star / antagonize melodrama after the end of the characters in Maritza Rodriguez and Elizabeth Gutierrez

Personal life

She maintained a relationship from 2009 to 2010 with Jorge Kahwagi. Currently in a relationship with Guy Davidyan.

Stroke

Marlene Favela, suffered a stroke On July 27 of 2012.

The actress was at her home in Miami when she began to feel a tingling in the hands, nausea, dizziness, difficulty speaking, so immediately went to hospital. Favela thought she was poisoned by eating seafood, but it turned out she had a stroke that could have been fatal, but thanks to the quick intervention of doctors was saved. In the hospital, Favela underwent surgery for intracranial bleeding caused by a congenital disease. The actress says that she could have gone blind or died.

Filmography

Telenovelas
Year	Teleserie	Character	Channel	role
1995	Maria Jose	Deborah	Televisa	Secondary
1997	María Isabel	Patricia	Televisa	Secondary
1998	That's life	Mariana	Televisa	Secondary
1999	DKDA teaser	Gina	Televisa	Secondary
1999	Hell in Paradise	Patricia	Televisa	Secondary
1999	Women deceived	Leticia	Televisa	Secondary
1999	For Your Love	Monica	Televisa	Secondary
2000	The Beach House	Malena Nuñez	Televisa	Secondary
2000	Angel Face	Ambar Ferrer	Televisa	Secondary
2001	The Intruder	Guadalupe Rojas	Televisa	Secondary
2001	Christmas without end	Cuquis	Televisa	Secondary
2002	Between love and hate	Cecilia	Televisa	Secondary
2002	Wildcat	Rosaura Ríos Olivares	Venevision	Bio
2003	Bridal Veil	Angeles Villaseñor	Televisa	Co-starring
2004	Ruby	Sonia Chavarria Gonzalez	Televisa	Special Performance
2005	Against all odds	Natalia Ríos	Televisa	Bio
2007	Love without makeup	Josefina Cárdenas "Pina"	Televisa	Bio
2007	Zorro, the Sword and the Rose	Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada	Telemundo	Stellar Protagonist
2011	The heirs Del Monte	Paula del Monte	Telemundo	Bio antagonistic
2012	Heart passionate	Patricia Miranda Campos	Venevision	Bio
2012	The Bruiser	Alicia Ferrer / Eva Samaniego	Telemundo	Protagonist / antagonist

Television

• Ugly Betty (2006)
• Meridian X (presenter)
• Billboard Awards 2007 (presenter)
• What happens to us? (Presenter)

Movie

Movies
Year	movie	Character	role
2008	Playball - ()	Elena	Protagonist
2007	Species: The Awakening - ()	Azura	Antagonist

Theatre

• Again, Sam
• Be Unfaithful and Who Do Not Look

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Telenovela	Outcome
2007	ACE Awards	'Best TV actress scenic	Zorro, the Sword and the Rose	Won
2002	Awards El Heraldo de Mexico	Best Breakout	The Intruder	Nominated

Other websites

• Marlene Favela Official Site Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish and English)