Maite Perroni

Maite Perroni Beoriegui was born in March 3, 1983 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal. She is a Mexican singer and actress. Maite gained international popularity as a member of the successful group RBD. Maite Perroni was only eleven months old when she and her family moved to Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco in Mexico. Her father, Javier Perroni, was transferred to that city by his job, where the Perroni family lived for twelve years. She has two brothers; Adolfo, who is three years younger, and Francisco (Paco), who is nine years younger than she. Maite, or "Mai" as her closest friends call her, studied acting in Televisa's Centro DE Educación Artistica (CEA) in the year 2000, completing two years of a three year program. She made her debut as an actress in Rebelde, where she portrayed Guadalupe "Lupita" Fernández, who comes from a very humble family and gets the opportunity to study at the fictitious Elite Way School, one of the most prestigious schools in Mexico City, thanks supposedly to her excellent grades. Maite is also a member of the popular Mexican band RBD, which was formed during the recording of the series and became a phenomenon around Latin America, The United States, and parts of Europe. The other members of RBD (Dulce MarÃa, AnahÃ, Alfonso Herrera, Christian Chávez and Christopher Uckermann) were also cast in Rebelde.