All about Hrithik’s new leading lady

• Born on February 2nd, 1978, actress-model Brbara Mori Ochoa has a very interesting lineage. She is of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage.

• Her pathway to stardom began when she was picked by fashion designer Marcos Toledo to work as a model at the age of fourteen.

• By 17 she was living and independently and by 19 she met actor Sergio Mayer with whom she later went on to have a son.

• Although Brbara tried her hand on Mexican Television, her real claim to fame came when she got her first leading role as Azul in the TV series Azul Tequila, co-starring with Mauricio Ochmann.

• She participated in her first film in 2000, in the Mexican comedy Inspiracin. Later on she went to act in one of the highest rated Mexican soap Rub, which earned her a TVyNovelas Award.

• The actress has been in the news for going under the knife including a surgical procedure to enhance her breasts' cup size.

• The actress has her own lingerie line, and uses her image to support charitable causes such as the fight against breast cancer in Mexico.

• She endorses Goicoechea - a hematoma curing agent.

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