Barbara Mori, born in Montevideo in 1978 and raised in Mexico City, became one of Mexican television's most identifiable faces with the telenovela Ruby (2004), a role that made the character a cultural shorthand. She stepped onto the international stage opposite Hrithik Roshan in Anurag Basu's Kites (2010), a Hindi-Spanish romance shot in the United States. She has kept moving between telenovelas, films and streaming series in Spanish, and produced projects for her own company. Two decades in, she is regarded as a genuine star of the Spanish-language screen with an unusual willingness to cross borders. Read more