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    Address 7060 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 11/04/1999

About
Cristina Saralegui
Born:
1948-01-29,
Havana,
Cuba
Education:
University of Miami, FL
Ethnicity:
Hispanic
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Cristina Saralegui

Cristina Saralegui or simply Cristina is a Cuban American journalist, actress and talk show host, well-known for hosting the Spanish-language eponymous show, Cristina.

Following the Cuban Revolution, Saralegui fled with her family to Miami in 1960 at the age of 12. Saralegui and her family lived on Key Biscayne, where she also attended school.

After graduating from Academy of the Assumption in 1966, Saralegui was a student at the University of Miami. In 1973 she began an internship at the magazine Vanidades, where she taught herself to write Spanish, as she had nearly all of her formal schooling in the United States and only functioned in Spanish at the oral level. Saralegui eventually worked her way up to editor of the Spanish version of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1979. She led Spanish Cosmopolitan through most of the 1980s.

In 1989, Saralegui decided to transfer her journalism success to television, launching a Miami-based Spanish-language talk show, El Show de Cristina to Univisión.

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