1995–2000: Career beginnings At the age of 16 she moved to
Buenos Aires, Argentina where she began auditioning to unleash her ambition to be a star. In 1993 she won the children's contest
El Show de Xuxa and became the "super paquita" (entertainer and assistant) of the program and representative of its presenter
Xuxa in different Latin American countries. She worked as an
MTV VJ and in 1995, she landed a minor role in
El Nueve's soap opera
Dulce Ana. In 1996 she was cast in
El Nueve's telenovela
90-60-90 modelos as Lucía, and made her stage debut in the
Leonard Gershe's
Butterflies Are Free. In 1997 she obtained her first leading role, playing Valeria García Méndez de Salerno in the soap opera
Ricos y Famosos. She starred in the Argentinian film
Un Argentino en New York (1998). After the movie, Natalia launched her first album,
Natalia Oreiro and the single "
Cambio Dolor" became the opening theme for her next acting project, the prime time show
Muñeca Brava (1998–1999). For her performance in
Muñeca Brava, Natalia was nominated twice (1998 and 1999) for a
Martín Fierro Award as Best Actress in a leading role. In 1998, Natalia Oreiro recorded the theme "Paths of the Soul" next to Kennedy Choir and with more than 120 Argentine artists under the direction of Instrumental pianist and conductor Nazareno Andorno. In January 2000, Natalia was named "Celebrity of the Century" by
E! Entertainment Television. She became popular in Russia and Israel due to the success of
Muñeca Brava in that country and was even invited to star in a Russian
telenovela. In Israel, she performed many times on big stages and many television shows and won the Best Telenovela Actress Award and Best Theme Song "Cambio Dolor" at the "VIVA 2000" awards, 2002 Israeli Cable TV had a live competition for finding the Israeli Natalia Oreiro, and she was the guest of honor for the evening.
2000–2005: Tu Veneno and Turmalina She pursued her musical career with the next album
Tu Veneno and presentations at Gala de la Hispanidad, Gala de Murcia (both in Spain) and Festival de la Calle 8 in Miami. Her most important appearance was in the prestigious Latin television show
Sábado Gigante Internacional, hosted by
Don Francisco. Natalia's major achievement at this time was her music performance in Chile at Viña del Mar Festival 2000 for which she was crowned Queen of that event. The album scored a
Latin Grammy nomination for
Best Female Pop Vocal Album, but lost to
Christina Aguilera's
Mi Reflejo. On 1 June 2002, her third studio album
Turmalina was released by
BMG Ariola Argentina.
Turmalina was produced by Latin record producer
Kike Santander and is a combination of styles such as rock, pop and 50's and 60's sounds. On this album, Oreiro wrote and composed the songs: "Alas De Libertad" which is inspired by kids she met some time ago in the city of Jujuy, Argentina; "Mar" tells the love story between a sailor and his girlfriend. Natalia also contributed to the lyrics of "Cayendo". "Que Digan Lo Que Quieran" is
Turmalina's first single. The official Uruguayan
2002 World Cup song "Pasión Celeste" is recorded with Fredy Bessio. "Cuesta arriba, cuesta abajo" was the opening song of the soap opera
Kachorra (
Runaway Lady).
Kachorra ended with a rating lower than 20 points in Argentina. In March 2003 she started filming her second film
Cleopatra together with
Norma Aleandro, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Héctor Alterio, under the direction of
Eduardo Mignogna, a co-production with Spain. In the middle of 2003, she started a tour for Eastern Europe and Latin America. On 1 March 2004 she started filming
El Deseo.
2006–2014: Sos mi vida, switch to cinema and other works In 2006 she joined as the female boxer, Esperanza Munoz, the cast of the telenovela
Sos mi vida along with her
Muñeca Brava co-star
Facundo Arana. It was directed by Rodolfo Antúnez and Jorge Bechara and broadcast by
Canal 13. It began broadcasting on 16 January 2006 and ended 9 January 2007. During its broadcast averaged 26.9 points overall rating, and ended as the most watched fictional Argentine television program ever, until it was displaced by the 2009, telenovela
Valientes. It was written by Ernesto Korovsky and Sebastian Parrotta, and won four
Martín Fierro Awards and three
Clarín Awards. On 30 April 2008, Oreiro starred in
Amanda O which was an
internet television series in Argentina and produced by
Dori Media Group. It was the first soap opera ever made for the internet, and was seen by 550,000 users over Novebox.com, from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay during its first season and beginning of the second. Later in 2008 she co-starred in the film
Las vidas posibles, along with
Germán Palacios and Ana Celentano and got nominated for a Silver Condor for Best Supporting Actress. In 2009 she starred with Diego Peretti in
Música en espera. The film premiered in Buenos Aires in March 2009 and sold 235,000 tickets. During the same year, she visited several international film festivals to present the film
Francia directed by Adrián Caetano, including the
San Sebastian Film Festival among others. In 2010 she starred in the film
Miss Tacuarembó, a musical comedy, which was co-produced by Uruguay, Argentina and Spain. For her performance, she received the Iris award for Best Actress. Oreiro also participated in the soundtrack of the film, performing all the songs. During the same year, she presented
Se dice de mí, a program that sought to raise awareness about women's rights. During the first half of 2011, she starred with Daniel Hendler in
My First Wedding, a film comedy directed by Ariel Winograd. In 2012 she started in
Lynch, a series created in Colombia and broadcast throughout Latin America. The same year the film
Clandestine Childhood, which takes place during Argentina's last military dictatorship, premiered in Argentina. The film was selected to compete for a nomination in the Best Foreign Film category at the 2013 Oscar Awards. For her work in this film Oreiro won the Silver Condor Award and the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences Award for Best Actress. At the end of 2012 she returned on stage and performed in the
Superdiscoteca of the 90s Festival, which took place in St. Petersburg, Russia. During 2013, she starred in the telenovela
Solamente vos, which marked her return to television after a 7 year hiatus. For her performance in the series she won awards for Best Comedy Actress in the Tato Awards and Martín Fierro awards. Her next leading role was in the film
The German Doctor, which was shot during 2012 in the city of Bariloche, and premiered in September 2013. This film, became the second in Oreiro's career to be shortlisted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Argentina to compete for a nomination in the Oscar Awards at the category for Best Foreign Film. She also won awards and nominations for Best Actress in the Condor de Plata awards, Sur awards, and the Unasur Festival. The film was nominated for a Goya Award and presented at several international film festivals. showing of ''I'm Gilda''
2014–2017: Nasha Natasha tour, Entre caníbales and ''I'm Gilda'' At the end of 2013 she resumed her musical career performing a tour in Eastern Europe called
Nasha Natasha Tour Hits (lit.
Our Natasha in Russian, from the Russian diminutive form of Natalia). She also released a new song and video clip, a cover of Gloria Trevi's song "Todos me miraran". With the "Nasha Natasha Tour 2014 ", she toured a total of 19 Russian cities making it a total of 34 shows. One of the most important was the one she held at the Olympic Sports Hall in Moscow, which broke a record, as it gathered more than 60 thousand people. She later recorded a new Russian version of "Me muero de amor" («Я умираю от любви»), with a video clip that starred
Facundo Arana. In 2015 she returned to television starring in the dramatic series
Entre caníbales, along with
Benjamín Vicuña and
Joaquín Furriel, and under the direction of
Juan José Campanella. The series was broadcast by the Telefe network for Argentina, and by Fox Life for the rest of the Latin American market. In 2016 she starred in
I'm Gilda reaching 953,120 in Argentina's box office, a film based on the life of the Argentinian singer,
Gilda, who died in a car accident in September 1996. The soundtrack of the film became the fourth album in her musical career. In December 2016 she presented the first single of the album, the song
Corazón Valiente in collaboration with Ruben Rada. The film was presented at several festivals such as the
Miami International Film Festival in 2017 and the
Malaga Film Festival the same year, and for her performance she won several awards: Sur Award (2016), Audience Platinum for Best Actress (2017) and Condor Award (2017). She has been at the 2016 Platinum Awards as a host and singing "
Garota de Ipanema" during the presentation.
2017-2019: Return to the stage, Super Crazy and FIFA World Cup , May 2018 Her return to music, with the soundtrack of the I'm Gilda film, gave her the opportunity to return to the stage and at the beginning of 2017 she sang at several festivals in Argentina (such as Lincoln, Villa María and Mar del Plata, among others). In Madrid she repeated her role as host of the 2017 Platino Awards (winner of the
Best Actress award from the audience) and the same year she received a Platinum Iris for her career at the
22nd Iris Uruguay Awards. During 2018, the movie
Super Crazy was premiered, which reached 759,546 spectators in Argentina's box office, and she released two songs for the
FIFA World Cup held in Russia ("United By Love" was included in the official album of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the song "Mi Pobedim"). She attended the Kids Choice Awards 2018 (winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award) and the
Gramado Festival in
Brazil (winner of
Crystal Kikito). In 2019, her tour called the "Unforgettable Tour" was launched with 14 concerts in various cities of
Russia,
Belarus,
Moldova and
Armenia. A few months later she returned to Russia to attend the
New Wave Festival in Sochi to sing with Roberto Kel Torres the theme
Acapulco. In November 2019, the
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival in the United States awarded her with the
Career Achievement Award for her career. In Argentina she appeared in the films "La Noche Mágica" (Bad Christmas) (Gaston Portal's first film) with
Diego Peretti and "Las Rojas" (The Broken Land) with
Mercedes Moran. The turn of the year found her in
Poland singing some of her greatest hits in front of 120,000 spectators.
2020–present: Got Talent, La Voz, Evita and Yosi, the Regretful Spy , Moldova in 2019 At the beginning of 2020, she filmed some scenes for the film
Hoy Se Arregla El Mundo by Ariel Winogrand with
Leonardo Sbaraglia. During the year she hosted
Got Talent Uruguay, which was renewed for a second season broadcast in 2021, and a third broadcast in 2022. On 6 August 2020,
Netflix premiered
Nasha Natasha worldwide. The documentary directed by
Martín Sastre, refers to her special bond with Russia, while revealing aspects of her private life that were unknown until then. The documentary reached the top positions in Uruguay, Argentina and several European countries and also reached the 30th position globally. In 2021, she filmed the first season of the Amazon Prime Video series
Yosi, the Regretful Spy, which premiered on 29 April 2022, and follows a spy who infiltrates a Jewish community to gather information that was used to carry out the
AMIA bombing. On 17 February 2022, it was officially announced that she would be the host of
La Voz, the Uruguayan version of
The Voice of Holland. That year the
western film Las Rojas was also released, in which she stars alongside
Mercedes Morán, and the
Star+ series
Santa Evita also premiered, in which Oreiro plays
Eva Perón. In July 2023, she continued to host the second season of
La Voz, in addition to starring in the premiere of the romantic comedy film
Casi muerta, in which she plays a woman who finds out she has a terminal illness. == Personal life ==