Biography

1980s

Ruffo began her acting career in 1980 starring in supporting roles in the telenovela Conflictos de un Médico, under the direction of Ernesto Alonso, and continued her career acting in Al Rojo vivo. In 1983, Valentín Pimsteín gave her the opportunity to star as the protagonist of La fiera as Natalia Ramirez together with Guillermo Capetillo.

In 1985 she starred in Carlos Téllez's telenovela,Juana Iris alongside Valentín Trujjilo and her sister,Gabriela Ruffo. She worked in Ernesto Alonso's Victoria Ernesto Alonso offered her lead role in the telenovela Simplemente María.

1990s

In 1995 she was protagonist in Pobre Niña Rica a telenovela by Enrique Segoviano as Consuelo Villagrán.

1998,she starred in telenovela,Vivo por Elena as Elena Carvajal.

2000s

In 2000 she starred in Salvador Mejía's, Abrazame muy fuerte alongside Aracely Arámbula.

In 2005 marked her comeback in the critically acclaimed telenovela La madrastra,which she starred with César Évora. After La madrastra, she performed duties as the First Lady of Pachuca, with her husband acting as mayor while continuing to star in the telenovelas .

In 2007,Victoria starred in Telemundo production,Victoria alongside Arturo Peniche and Mauricio Ochmann.

In 2009, she played protagonist in Carlos Moreno's,En nombre del amor together with, Leticia Calderón, Allisson Lozz and Altaír Jarabo.She played Macarena sister to Leticia Calderón's character,Carlota.

2010s

In 2010, she was named as one of Latin America's 50 Most Beautiful People. In mid 2010,she was confirmed to lead in Salvador Mejía Alejandre's telenovela,Triunfo del amor.She played "Victoria".She starred alongside Maite Perroni, William Levy and Diego Oliveira.

After Triunfo del amor, Ruffo focused on her family and doing theater plays, specifically Dulce Pajaro de Juventud. She also went to support the senatorial campaign of her husband, Omar, who eventually won a seat in the senate.

In 2012, José Alberto Castro confirmed her to star in telenovela,Corona de lágrimas,alongside José María Torre, Mané de la Parra, Alejandro Nones and Adriana Louvier.Due to her great performance in the latter she won the 31st TVyNovelas Awards for Best Lead Actress.

In 2014,she played protagonist in telenovela,La malquerida alongside, Ariadne Díaz, Christian Meier, África Zavala and Arturo Peniche. hii

Personal life

Ruffo is the sister of actress and radio host Gabriela Ruffo and producer Marcela Ruffo. In 1992, she married comedian Eugenio Derbez, and they had one son, José Eduardo Derbez (born 1992). The couple divorced in 1997. After 4 years of divorce, on March 9, 2001 she married Mexican politician Omar Fayad, who is the senador of Pachuca, Hidalgo.

On August 11, 2004 gave birth to twins, daughter Victoria and son Anuar.

Filmography

Films
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Ringing Bell	Chirin's mother	Voice
1980	Un Hombre sin miedo	Laura Aparicio	Film
1982	The Sea Prince and the Fire Child	Matla	Voice
	Una Sota y un caballo: Rancho Avandaro	Maricarmen Sierra	Film
	De pulquero a millonario	Rufina	Film
1984	Unico in the Island of Magic	Unico	Voice
1986	Un Hombre violento	Susana	Film
1988	Yo el ejucutor		Film
	A Journey Through Fairyland	Florence	Voice

Telenovelas

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Conflictos de un médico	Rosario Reyes	Main Antagonist
1980-1981	Al rojo vivo	Pilar Álvarez	Supporting role
1981-1982	Quiéreme siempre	Julia	Co-Protagonist
1982-1983	En busca del paraíso	Grisel	Co-Protagonist
1983-1984	La Fiera	Natalie Ramírez "La Fiera"	Protagonist
1985	Juana Iris	Juana Iris Madrigal Martínez	Protagonist
1987-1988	Victoria	Victoria Martínez	Protagonist
1989-1990	Simplemente María	María López de Carreño	Protagonist
1993	Capricho	Cristina Aranda Montaño	Protagonist
1995-1996	Pobre niña rica	Consuelo Villagrán García-Mora	Protagonist
1998	Vivo por Elena	Elena Carvajal	Protagonist
2000-2001	Abrázame Muy Fuerte	Cristina Álvarez Rivas de Rivero	Protagonist
2001	Mujer, casos de la vida real'	Carmelita Hernández	TV series
2005	La Madrastra	María Fernández Acuña de San Román	Protagonist
2007-2008	Victoria	Victoria Santiesteban de Mendoza	Protagonist
2008-2009	En Nombre del Amor	Macarena Espinoza de los Monteros	Co-Protagonist
2009	La Rosa De Guadalupe	Carolina Lopez Hernandez	1 Episode; "Amor sin fronteras"
2010-2011	Triunfo del amor	Victoria Gutiérrez de Sandoval	Protagonist
2012-2013	Corona de lágrimas	Refugio Chavero Hernández	Protagonist
2014	La malquerida	Cristina Maldonado Reyes de Domínguez/ vda. de Rivas	Protagonist
2016	Las amazonas	Inés Huerta	Protagonist

Awards and nominations

TVyNovelas Awards

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
1985	Best Young Lead Actress	La fiera	Won
1988	Best Musical Theme	Victoria	Nominated
	Best Lead Actress	Victoria
1990		Simplemente María
1994		Capricho
1999		Vivo por Elena
2006		La madrastra
2013		Corona de lágrimas	Won

Premios Bravo

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
2006	Best First Actress	La madrastra	Won

Premios People en Español

Year	Category	Telenovela	Result
2009	Best Actress	En nombre del amor	Nominated
2011	Best Supporting Actress	Triunfo del amor

[ Source: Wikipedia ]