Lorena Bernal

Lorena Bernal
Lorena Bernal 2008
Born	Lorena Raquel Bernal Pascual May 12, 1981 Tucumán, Argentina
Spouse(s)	Mikel Arteta
Modeling information
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Blue Green

Lorena Bernal Pascual (born 12 May 1981) is an Argentine-Spanish actress, TV Host and model.

Bernal was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. She moved to San Sebastián, Spain, when she was 1 year old, and studied at the French Lycée Français de Saint Sebastién in the city, then at Maurice Ravel school in Saint Jean de Luz across the border in France. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

She worked as a model since the age of 7 and started with drama classes at the age of 13. She was Miss Spain 1999 at the age of 17 and could not represent the country in Miss Universe due to her age, so went instead to Miss World where she was between the 10 finalists.

Since then she has worked as a model, TV host and specially actress in Spain and in the US where she appeared, among others, in the American television show Chuck as an international arms dealer or CSI: Miami as a nanny named Mia in the episode "My Nanny."

She is married to Spanish footballer Mikel Arteta, the former captain of the Premier League football club, Arsenal, and now assistant coach of the Premier League football club, Manchester City. The couple had their first child, Gabriel, in 2009, in Spain, and their second child, Daniel, in 2012, and Oliver in 2015, also in Spain.