Television Career
At a very early age Belinda showed an incredible talent for singing, acting and making home videos that she wrote and filmed herself. When she was 10, she starred in her first TV series entitled ¡Amigos X Siempre!, produced by Televisa in Mexico and contributed to a soundtrack for the program. Her second role was playing Violeta in the telenovela Aventuras En El Tiempo, that also starred Christopher Uckermann. Following the success of ¡Amigos X Siempre! and Aventuras En El Tiempo, Belinda starred in the dual role playing identical twins, Mariana Cantú and Silvana Del Valle, who were separated at birth in the popular children's telenovela, Cómplices Al Rescate. She recorded a soundtrack for the show, and received her first Latin Grammy nomination for her work on the soundtrack. Before the second season started, Belinda dropped out of the show in order to pursue other projects. For the remainder of the series, her role was played by Mexican actress and singer, Daniela Luján.
In 2006, Belinda returned to the small screen in the Disney Channel Original Movie The Cheetah Girls 2, playing the role of Marisol. The movie premiered on August 25, 2006 and it received a total of over 8.1 million viewers. Belinda also contributed a total of 4 songs to The Cheetah Girls 2 soundtrack, which was released on August 15, 2006 and debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 and it has sold 1.4 million copies to date in the US.
Belinda has recently been seen in a new telenovela called Camaleones, where she plays a prefect for a high class high school, and doubles as a thief with her love interest, who is also a teacher at the school where she works.
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