Talisa Soto

Talisa Soto was born Miriam Soto on March 27th, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York, NY, but was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. As one of the few Puerto Rican's in town, she felt unpopular and isolated during her school years. When she was only fifteen, she was able to find a job in modeling, but when she tried for acceptance at the Ford modeling agency, she was refused as being too ethnic-looking. Undaunted, the ambitious Talisa signed with Click Model Management and went to Europe, where she found work in both Paris and Italy, appearing in Vogue, Glamour, and Mademoiselle. With her secret ambitions to advance to an acting career, Talisa returned to the United States, eventually finding work. Her feature film debut was as India in "Spike of Bensonhurst" a 1988 comedy that starred Ernest Borgnine. The next year she landed her first action picture role as as Bond Girl Lupe Lamora in "License to Kill" along with Timothy Dalton. She found additional roles on television, including an HBO anthology series, "Prison Stories: Women on the Inside."

In 1990, People Magazine chose Talisa as one of the Fifty Most Beautiful People in the World, and five years later she was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (1995). Talisa is probably best known for her role as Kitana in "Mortal Kombat" (1995). The spunky Talisa states: "I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme". In 1997, Talisa got married, but divorced three years later, then married for a second time in 2002 to Benjamin Bratt whom she had met while filming the previous year. Talisa has appeared in the Mortal Kombat sequels, "Annihilation" (1997), "Mortal Kombat 3: Domination" (2003), and "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" (2002) alongside Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, .15hqqw.

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