Ivelin Giro
- Actress
Ivelin Giro was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. At an early age, Giro
began studying theater and folk dance, and later taught dance to
younger children in Havana. In Cuba, Giro studied acting with the
renowned actor and director Alejandro Lugo, who founded the Actors
School of the Cuban Broadcasting Institute. While studying with Lugo,
Giro had her first starring role in the Cuban film La Novia para David.
She also hosted the program Revista de la Mañana Cubana for the Cuban
Television Network ICRT Instituto Cubano de Radio y Television . During
an international fashion event held in Cuba, she was chosen as the
event's "Most Popular Model." Thanks to the publicity from that event,
she signed with a Milan-based modeling agency. Giro landed campaigns
with Givenchy, L'Oreal, and others. She was also featured on many
magazine covers around the world for international publications such as
Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Madame Figaro. As an international
model, Giro walked in couture shows for designers Giorgio Armani, Dolce
& Gabbana, Chloé, and Valentino, just to name a few. It was during this
period that Giro lived in Italy for two years, followed by a 5-year
residence in Paris where she gave birth to her first child, daughter
Zoe. Giro later relocated to Miami in order to move her family out of
Cuba; after much struggle and hardship, she reunited her family after
10 years of separation. During that time, Giro gave birth to her two
sons, Samuel and Marlon. In Miami, Giro re-launched her acting career
with the play Baño de Damas, in which she played the character Marines,
a cocaine-addicted young woman. Later, she performed the role of Olga
Knipper, a Russian actress, in the play I Take Your Hand in Mine for
the director Jim Tommaney. A passionate actor and teacher, Giro
co-founded an experimental theatre company called Obstaculo with
director Victor Varela. Obstaculo provides acting classes for adults
and children, as well as producing original theatrical works. Giro
persuaded her acting career on television leading many episodes of the
Telemundo series "Decisiones", as well as several series as "El Zorro
La Espada y la Rosa" where she played the leading role of Queen of
Spain for Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television transmitted in All Latin
America, United States, the Caribbean, Spain, Russia, all the
Scandinavian countries, all Eastern Europe, Japan, and China She
performed a variety of leading roles for different soap operas for
Univision and Televisa. Giro also hosted the Telemundo program Cada
Dia. At the same time she had a part in the movie "Bad Boys 2" with
Will Smith. She also participated in other movies as: "Hey DJ"
''Category 4" and "Tumbe". After achieving much success on television,
Giro took time away from acting to dedicate herself to her family.
During that time, Giro, along with her children, developed an underwear
line made of organic bamboo called Touche Muah. Today, Giro is a
successful actress and clothing designer, and a very happy single
mother with three wonderful children. In her admittedly limited free
time, she loves practicing yoga and dancing salsa and bachata. Ivelin
Giro is fluent in: Spanish, English, Italian, French and she can also
speak different regional accents such as Mexican and Cuban.