Niurka Marcos

Niurka Marcos Calle (born 24 November 1967) is a Mexican vedette, actress, dancer and singer.

Marcos was born in Havana, Cuba to Carmelo Marcos, a Cuban navy major, and Salustiana "Celeste" Calle, a housewife.

She has five siblings: Martha, Maribel, Thomas, María del Carmen, and Ernesto.

In 2001, Marcos portrayed an erotic dancer named Karicia in the Mexican soap opera Salomé starring Edith González and Guy Ecker, for which she earned a TVyNovelas Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 20th TVyNovelas Awards.

In 2003 Marcos dated actor Bobby Larios.

They subsequently married, but that marriage ended in divorce.

In 2004, she was a contestant on the reality series Big Brother México.

She appeared as a supporting actress on La Fea Más Bella during 2006 and sang on its soundtrack album on the track "Se Busca Un Hombre."

Marcos was then married to Yanixán Texido in 2007.

In 2007, she released an album titled La Emperadora and posed for the February 2007 issue of the Mexican edition of Playboy magazine.

She started her own show in 2008 called Espectacularmente Niurka.

She also hosts El Show De Niurka which features games, dancing, singing and a jacuzzi in which she interviews other artists.

Marcos was cast for a theatrical remake of La ronda de las arpías in August 2009.

The couple separated in May 2009 and on February 6, 2011, they divorced.

She was part of the first group of foreigners naturalized by President Vicente Fox, and has three Mexican-born children: Itzcoatl "Kiko", Romina, and Emilio.

In 2011, Marcos joined the cast of Emperatriz as the new villain.

In 2018, Marcos stated in an interview that her mother had died.

Marcos starred in the telenovela Velo de Novia, produced by her then-boyfriend Juan Osorio.