Lorena Raquel Bernal Pascual (born 12 May 1981) is an Argentine-Spanish actress, television host, and model.
She is the wife of current Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta
Bernal was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
She moved to San Sebastián, Spain, when she was a year old, and studied at the French Lycée Français de Saint Sebastién in the city, then at Maurice Ravel school in Saint Jean de Luz across the border in France.
She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
She has worked as a model since the age of 7 and began drama classes at the age of 13.
1999
She was Miss Spain 1999 at the age of 17 and could not represent the country in Miss Universe due to her age, so instead she competed in Miss World where she was one of the 10 finalists.
Since then she has worked as a model, TV host and especially as an actress in Spain and in the US where she appeared in the American television show Chuck as an international arms dealer and CSI: Miami in the role of Mía, a nanny, in the episode "My Nanny."
She is married to Spanish former footballer Mikel Arteta, the former captain and current manager of Premier League football club Arsenal.
2009
The couple's first child, called Gabriel, was born in Spain in 2009.
2012
Their second child, Daniel, was born in 2012, and their third child, Oliver, was also born in Spain in 2015.
