Bárbara Mori Ochoa (born February 2, 1978 ) is a Mexican actress and model.

Mori started work modeling and then later became a telenovela actress with TV Azteca. Her big break came with the remake of the telenovela Rubí of rival network Televisa in 2004 playing the title character.
Biography

Actress-model Bárbara Mori Ochoa was born on 2 February 1978. She is of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage; her Japanese ancestry is from her paternal grandfather[citation needed]. She has two siblings; actress Kenya Mori and Kintaró Mori. At the age of 3, her parents divorced and she later moved to Mexico.

One day, while working as a waitress at the age of fourteen, fashion designer Marcos Toledo invited her to work as a model. She became independent by the age of 17 and went to live with her cousins[1]. At 19 she met actor Sergio Mayer, who would later become father to their son Sergio, born in 1998. They never married.

She later studied acting in El Centro de Estudios de Formación Actoral. Mori first acted in the Mexican Telenovela Al norte del corazón. She then participated in the comedy series Tric Tac and Mirada de mujer the following year. She obtained her first TVyNovelas Award for her role in Mirada de mujer for the Best New Actress.

In 1998, Bárbara Mori got her first leading role as Azul in the series Azul Tequila, co-starring with Mauricio Ochmann. A year later she filmed the series Me muero por tí in Miami, with Peruvian actor Christian Meier. She participated in her first film in 2000, in the Mexican comedy Inspiración. Later, she acted in various other telenovelas including, Amor descarado and the high rated Mexican soap Rubí, which earned her a TVyNovelas Award. By then she had already went through a surgical procedure to enhance her breasts' cup size, along some other lesser operations.

In 2005 she obtained the starring role in the blockbuster film La mujer de mi hermano as Zoe, and her husband was portrayed by Christian Meier, who she had previously co-starred with in Me muero por ti. After breaking up with Mayer, Mori dated Manolo Cardona. She also obtained the leading role in "Pretendiendo", an argentinian-backed movie which was critically panned.

She is currently dating actor and fashion designer José María Torre.
Films

* Kites (2009)
* Violanchelo (200 as Consuelo
* Robots (2005) as Cappy (Spanish language version)
* La mujer de mi hermano (2005) as Zoe
* Pretendiendo (2005) as Helena/Amanda
* Inspiración (2000)


Indian film director Rakesh Roshan has recently signed her as the leading lady for his upcoming movie "Kites" opposite Indian actor Hrithik Roshan. To be shot in New Mexico, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, "Kites" is scheduled to go into production by the end of July 2008, and likely to be released in 2009.