At age 15, after being spotted by a modeling agent during a brief trip to Santa Barbara, California, Iliana returned home to San Francisco and started modeling for runway and department stores. Her Puerto Rican/German mixture and fluency in Spanish gave her versatility and talents that she has been capitalizing on.
Nevertheless, education was a priority for her mom who was a proud graduate of the University of Puerto Rico with a master's degree in chemistry. It was always important to Iliana's mom that especially as a Latina female, she have more to offer than a hot bod and a beautiful face! Brains must accompany that beauty! So, when Iliana was accepted at U.C. Berkeley, she attended, majoring in psychology and Spanish literature. To satisfy her creative need to perform, Iliana joined and performed jazz, ballet, and modern combinations locally with the University dance company...
Next came the move to Los Angeles, at the suggestion of an agent, where Iliana quickly got supporting roles on Baywatch, V.I.P., Pacific Blues, Moesha, a feature film, and a music video fro Selena's brother's cumbia group: "The Cumbia Kings". Modeling jobs at that time ranged from Lowrider Magazine, swimwear magazines, Venus Swimwear, a soccer calendar,Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie show aired on B.E.T., to Versace runway shows...
After being spotted and referred to a top modeling agency in Milan, Italy, Iliana started traveling back and forth marketing herself internationally. She did shoots for Italian Maxim and Max, as well as Maxmara runway shows;and made an appearance on Milan,Italy's channel 5 variety show... she then shot for Playboy, where she had her layout displayed in March of 2003 on the Playboy.com website as a "Cybergirl."
She has since starred in the 2004 internationally released film, winner of Santa Monica Film Festival Awards Showtime/TMC movie "Blind Passion," and had supporting roles in the Gary Busey/Lorenzo Lamas movie about Latino gang fights "Latin Dragon"...as well as in "Sunstorm" starring Bo Derek....
Iliana has made numerous appearances on the Latino TV channel 62 out of L.A. reaching Texas, N.Y., Miami, and many Latino countries around the world, featuring an interview of herself and promoting her calendar/website on L.A. Live, Jose Luis' "Sin Censura", "Buscando Amor", "Segunda Cita", "Que Buena", and promoting "A-Jeanius" clothing line which sponsors "Doce Corazones"... Iliana also promotes her first new latin/english crossover cd "Caliente" and her first musicvideo "Mariposa"....(vote for it on www.mvspy.com to get it played on TV!!!!) whenever/wherever possible!!!!
In 2005 Iliana had the privilege of being a featured guest of the Las Vegas exotic adventure stage show "X Show" at the Aladdin and Lake Tahoe's Hotel Harvey's...and,
Most recently,iliana appeared on the Tyra Banks Show....and did photoshoots for Hot Boats Magazine;as well as commercial printwork for Soft Trading video gaming accessories....
Last but not least, iliana also co-hosted a pilot episode of a new PAX channel musical entertainment variety show called "Icons U.S.A.";and, appears as a guest-star in the pilot episode of a new MTV reality series which follows the day-to-day live of the legendary rock group "Journey".....both shows will air in 2007....
Look out for Iliana in 2007 on HBO!!! She will also be making several appearances on "Las Vegas: Sin City Diaries",starring her good friend and former Victoria Secret/Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Amber Smith...it is a new HBO series about the seedy underworld of high-rollers in Las Vegas....
Iliana has no intention of narrowing her focus to one avenue, though finding the time is often a restraint... having options is definitely not a problem for her!!!
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Gorgeous!
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THIS ARTICLE IS SAD BUT TRUE.I HOPE PAMELA GETS HELP.SHE IS SUPPOSEDLY DONATING PROCEEDS TO "EMPOWERING WOMEN", BUT SHE'S RUINING A SINGLE MOM'S LIVELIHOOD/CAREER (ME) TO DO IT!!! THAT IS N-O-T WHAT I WOULD CALL "EMPOWERING WOMEN"!!!!
seems like pamela's a wolf in sheeps clothing trying to "cry wolf"....
CIAO ALL!!!!! ILIANA -
Hey Iliana, Go girl, you're HOT. Always have my vote. Parisy xxx
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