She started her career as an actress in the soap opera Los Ricos Tambien Lloran[?], playing a poor maid in a Mexican version of Cinderella. In 1987 her career got a huge boost internationally when she played the main character in Rosa Salvaje[?] alongside Ricardo Capetillo[?]. The theme song for that soap opera, also named Rosa Salvaje, became one of her biggest #1 hits as a singer.
Miss Castro in 1990 participated in Mi Pequena Soledad[?], where she had to play both a 40 year old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20 year old daughter (Soledad), who was the product of the rape.
Miss Castro embarked during the 1990s into the world of variety show[?] hosting, and she has done that successfully for 12 years now. Her son, Christian Castro[?], is a teen idol singer all over Latin America. She was married to the famous Mexican comedian El Loco Valdez[?] and many of her private life's details have become items for papparazi[?] photographers and gossip magazines to feast on.
She is rumored to have dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel.
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