Taliso Soto - who is she?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The girl who started her film career as a well-known and highly demanded fashion model has also achieved success in the field of acting. Today, there are a considerable number of films with her participation, as well as several series. Where did it all begin?

Modeling career

Talisa Soto is known not only as a model, but also as an actress, her real name is Miriam Soto. The actress was born in March 1967 in Brooklyn, as a child she moved with her parents to Northampton, Massachusetts.

Already at the age of 15, she got a job in a modeling agency. The girl went to work in Europe, as the Ford modeling agency refused her (because of her external data), and became one of the most sought-after and famous models of the 1980s. She starred for such famous magazines as Vogue, Self, Glamour, and many others. It is worth noting that she worked mainly only in France and Italy, and this brought her great success in the modeling business. In the late 1980s, the girl returned to the United States of America and began her career as an actress.

Talisa is an actress

Being active in films and attending various ceremonies, Soto has received one award and one nomination:

• In the Female Star of Tomorrow category of the ShoWest Award in 1989, Soto won.
• Nominated in the Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film category at the ALMA Awards (Pinero)

Talisa has been married three times. Her first husband was Louis Mandylor, but their marriage did not last long. Soto's second husband was Louis's brother, Costas Mandylor, they were married for 3 years (from 1997 to 2000). Unfortunately, the marriage broke up, after which, after some time, the model, and at that time already an actress, met her future husband, Benjamin Pratt, on the set of Pinero. The couple has two children: a daughter and a son.

Movies with Talisa Soto

The filmography of the actress has a total of 23 works. The films in the list are presented from newest to oldest:

• "Elysium: Heaven not on Earth", 2013;
• Mission District 2009;
• "Ballistics: Ex vs. Seaver", 2002;
• "Pinero", 2002;
• David Lynch short films;
• "Isle of the Dead", 2000;
• "Meeting with Fear", 2000;
• "Flycatcher", 1999;
• "Mortal Kombat 2: Havoc", 1997;
• "C-16: FBI" TV series released in 1997;
• "Career", 1997;
• "Vampirella",1996;
• "Sun Catcher", 1996;
• "Indestructible Spy", 1996;
• Mortal Kombat, 1995;
• "Don Juan de Marco", 1994;
• "Go West" - TV series released in 1993;
• Mambo Kings, 1992;
• "Prison Stories: Women Behind Bars", 1991;
• "Silhouette. An Invitation to Death", 1990;
• "License to Kill", 1989;
• "Bunkhouse at Besonhurst", 1988.

Ceremonies Talisa was invited to:

• 59th Golden Globe Awards;
• 79th Academy Awards.

Talisa Soto became most famous during the filming of the movie "Mortal Kombat" ("Mortal Kombat") and its second part, in which she played Princess Kitana.