Carolina Gómez
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born |
Carolina Gómez Correa February 26, 1974 Cali, Colombia |
|---|---|
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Title(s) | Miss Colombia 1993 |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss Colombia 1993 (Winner) Miss Universe 1994 (1st Runner-Up) |
Carolina Gómez Correa (born February 26, 1976 in Cali, Colombia) is a Colombian actress, presenter and model, who held the title of Miss Colombia 1993 and placed 1st Runner-Up at Miss Universe 1994.
In the early years of her life, Gómez went to live in the United States and returned to Bogotá when she was eighteen years old.
she represented Bogota as a delegate to the Miss Colombia Contest, Concurso Nacional de Belleza, where she was named as the new titleholder of the Señorita Colombia title in 1993.
She traveled to Manila, Philippines to represent her country in the Miss Universe 1994 Pageant where she was First Runner-up; Carolina Gomez was the third Colombian to win First Runner-up in a row at a Miss Universe competition, after Paola Turbay in 1992 and Paula Andrea Betancourt Arroyave in 1993.
Gómez holds the record for the highest score in the evening gown round in the history of Miss Universe with an average score of 9.897.
After her reign, Gómez went into modeling, achieving success on runways in Italy and Miami. She was the host of "Stars", a television show where many artists and celebrities were interviewed; afterwards, she was the successor to Jaime Garzón in the show "Locos Videos". She was also a TV Producer, as such, she was co-chair of Vista Productions Inc. In 2004, she made her acting debut in a soap opera, "El Auténtico Rodrigo Leal", telecasted by Caracol Channel (in Colombia), where she had the role of the host of a TV Reality Program with the Argentinian actor Martín Karpan. Her acting in this role received excellent reviews, which led to her role as protagonist in "La Viuda de la Mafía", another soap opera which aired in 2006 in RCN Channel (another Colombian Channel). Between 2007 and 2010 she worked in different TV series such as Mujeres Asesinas, Sin Retorno, Tiempo Final and Karabudjan. The latter was a 6-hour miniseries for Antena 3 in Spain. Currently, she is playing Alicia Duran in A Corazon Abierto, the Colombian adaptation of Grey's Anatomy. This series recently became the highest rating show in the history of Colombian television, surpassing Fernando Gaitan's worldwide success: Ugly Betty.
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