Cris Morena is one of the most successful producers in the country and is the creator of Argentina's most successful youth-oriented shows such as Jugate Conmigo, Chiquititas, Rebelde Way, Floricienta, Alma Pirata, and Casi Angeles.
50 Facts About Cris Morena
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Cris Morena was a producer at Telefe from 1991 to 2001, then created the Cris Morena Group as an independent production company, with Rebelde Way as its first production.
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Cris Morena is the youngest of four siblings and grew up in Palermo, Buenos Aires neighborhood with her upper-class family.
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Cris Morena's father was an engineer and her mother was a sociologist.
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Cris Morena soon got a job at a telenovela called Dulce Fugitiva in 1979 playing Laura Moreno.
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In 1980 Cris Morena, who was already a pianist and wrote poems as a hobby, decided to start writing music.
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Cris Morena retired as an actress after starring in the telenovela Quereme in 1994.
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Cris Morena went on to create the biggest youth-oriented franchises in Argentina history and her shows, such as Chiquititas, Rebelde Way and Floricienta, attracted huge ratings all over the world and spawned hundreds of products, albums and live concerts.
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Cris Morena is a prolific songwriter and music is an important element in all of her shows.
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Cris Morena's productions have accumulated over 30 platinum certifications and, alongside Carlos Nilson, she is the most profitable songwriter ever in SADAIC's history.
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Cris Morena was responsible for the Argentine version of Spring Awakening in 2010 for which she was awarded several Premios ACE, the most prestigious theater award the country.
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In 2010, after the sudden death of her daughter, Romina Yan, Cris Morena went on a hiatus and closed her production company.
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Cris Morena gave her last interview at the end of the year for Clarin and has made no public appearances.
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Cris Morena's husband became the producer of some of the biggest hits in the country, including Mesa de Noticias, and, in 1989, he became director of Telefe and, under his leadership, the channel became Argentina's most-watched TV channel.
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Cris Morena was directly or indirectly responsible for some of Argentina's biggest television shows including Susana Gimenez, Showmatch, among many others.
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Cris Morena left the channel in 1999 and, in the following year, founded his own production company, RGB Entertainment.
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Cris Morena started her career as one of the co-hosts in Jugate Conmigo and became extremely popular playing Belen, the central figure in her mother's hugely successful children-oriented telenovela Chiquititas, in which she starred from '95 to '98.
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Cris Morena starred as Belen in the movie Chiquititas: Rincon de luz in 2001.
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Cris Morena co-created Amor Mio, her biggest hit since Chiquititas, with her mother and the show was co-produced by her father and directed by Tomas, her brother.
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Cris Morena worked at both RGB and Cris Morena Group and, in 2011, opened his own production company, Utopia.
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Cris Morena has five grandchildren: Valentin, Franco and Azul, from Romina's marriage with Dario Giordano; Inti and Mila, from Tomas marriage to Sofia Recca.
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Cris Morena is the lyricist of almost every single song in her productions, totaling over 600 songs.
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Cris Morena's productions garnered over 30 platinum records from Chiquititas, Verano del '98, Jugate Conmigo, Rebelde Way, Floricienta, Casi Angeles, among others.
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Cris Morena contributed a few songs to Telefe's children show Supertorpe in 2011, for Teen Angels' fourth studio album and for Rebelde Way's Brazilian remake.
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Cris Morena composed the channel's official theme, Todos Juntos, and contributed songs to Qitapenas, a musical comedy produced by the channel.
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Alongside the teens from the first two seasons of Jugate, Cris Morena starred in the prime-time series Quereme.
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The plot of the show was similar to Cris Morena' future hit Rebelde Way.
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Since Jugate, Cris Morena has retired completely as a TV personality.
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Since music was such a huge part of the show and Cris Morena is a huge admirer of Broadway musicals, it was decided Chiquititas would be transformed into a live musical in 1996.
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Gustavo Yankelevich was responsible for the initial plot and asked Cris Morena to develop the show about a group of teens living in a small city called Puerto Esperanza.
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Cris Morena confirmed Verano was hugely influenced by the American show and this happened because he went to a screening of the Dawson's Creek pilot months before the original airing, fell in love with it and because the show took so long to premier, he thought the drama wasn't picked up by the TV network.
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Cris Morena thought the premise had much potential so he asked Morena and the production team to develop a teenage show with a similar story-line.
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Cris Morena had no plans to open her own production company but, after parting ways with Telefe and with a huge team following her, it was the only legal way to do it.
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Yair Dori wanted to extend Rebelde Way for a third season but, due to Cris Morena' refusal, was unable to.
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When many doubted Cris Morena could exceed her previous hits, she surprised again with Floricienta.
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La Nacion, which has always been more positive when it comes to Cris Morena' shows, rated the show as "very good" praising the production, the cast and Florencia Bertotti's charisma and comedy timing.
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Floricienta started with 14 points in its first episode and, by its season finale, achieved ratings of over 30 points with the death of Federico, being the biggest Cris Morena produced hit in history, even topping Chiquititas 98 ratings.
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In 2005, Cris Morena started to patch things up with Telefe when her sitcom Amor Mio was picked up by the channel and aired on primetime with great success.
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Finally, after four years working for all its competitors, Cris Morena returned to Telefe in an exclusivity deal in 2006.
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Cris Morena would produce a prime-time show and a children-oriented show for her traditional 6pm slot.
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Cris Morena revealed for the first time the title of the show, Casi Angeles, in a November 2006 interview to Produ.
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The Ideas del Sur production was a huge smash and, for the first time, Cris Morena didn't have the leading children project for children in the country.
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In 2005, besides the second season of Floricienta, Cris Morena debuted Amor Mio, a romantic sitcom she started developing with her daughter, Romina Yan, in 2002.
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Cris Morena played an uptight ballerina while he played a liberal rocker which lived across from each other with their kids.
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In 2006, Cris Morena was in charge for a primetime show at Telefe and produced Alma Pirata, an adventure-style production never before seen in Argentina.
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Cris Morena was killed off and Nicolas Vasquez replaced him as Luisana's character love interest.
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In 2010, Cris Morena was responsible for the Argentine version of Spring Awakening.
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In 2012, YUPS TV, a television channel from RGB Entertainment and Cris Morena Group, made its debut on cable TV across Latin America and on the internet.
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The project was officially unveiled at the Telefe Upfront, Todos Juntos 2013, at the end of May During the presentation, a tribute to Cris Morena was presented and the producer made her first official appearance in over two years.
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However, Cris Morena' had no desire to move out of Argentina and, in the end, Telefe agreed to finance the project.