In 1993, Cantoral appeared in
Dos mujeres, un camino with
Erik Estrada,
Laura León,
Bibi Gaytán,
Lorena Herrera,
Selena Quintanilla,
Jorge Salinas, and members of
Grupo Bronco. This production exposed her to wider audiences in Mexico and Latin America. She took the role of the villain
Soraya Montenegro in
María la del Barrio from 1995 to 1996, alongside
Thalía and
Fernando Colunga. In 1996 and 1997 she appeared in
Tú y yo, with
Maribel Guardia and
Joan Sebastian; and in
Salud, dinero y amor, the sequel to Mexican telenovela
El premio mayor. In 2001, Cantoral played the antagonic role of Raquel Villavicencio in
Sin Pecado Concebido, another Televisa production starring
Angelica Rivera and
Carlos Ponce. She starred in the Brazilian-American co-production
Vale todo in 2002; and in 2003,
Telemundo's
El alma herida, as a teenage girl who crosses the
Mexican–American border to find her long-lost mother. In 2004, she was
Sally Bowles in Mexico City's Teatro Insurgentes production of
Cabaret, and in 2006, she starred with
Francisco Gattorno in the Telemundo production of
Julio Jimenez's
La Viuda de Blanco. In 2009–2010, she played the character Alejandra Alvarez Del Castilo in Televisa's hit telenovela
Hasta que el dinero nos separe with actor and singer
Pedro Fernández, for which she won Best Actress at the
Premios TVyNovelas, where the telenovela also won the main category; while the actors won Best Couple of the Year at the show. Cantoral protagonized many famous plays in Mexican theatre, such as
Aventurera,
Sweet Charity,
Mame the Musical and many more. In 2018, she starred as Mexican actress
Silvia Pinal in the biographical television series
Silvia Pinal, Frente a Ti, for which she was nominated as Best Actress in a TV series for the Premios TVyNovelas. On November 18, 2015, Cantoral was named Mr. Amigo, which is an association in
Brownsville, Texas that honors a Mexican citizen each year to promote international friendship and good will between the U.S. and Mexico. Itatí is the second member of the Cantoral family to be awarded Mr. Amigo after her father, Roberto Cantoral, was awarded in 1981. As a singer, Cantoral has released two albums, one of them being
Itatí Canta a Roberto Cantoral, which was produced by her late father Roberto Cantoral. In 2018, she was part of the tribute album to her father "Roberto Cantoral: Siempre Vivo" with the song "Me Esta Gustando". == Filmography ==