Isabella Castillo

• Name — Isabella Castillo • Birth Name — Isabella Castillo Díaz • Born — 23 December 1994 • Birthplace — Havana, Cuba • Occupation — * Actress • singer • Years Active — 2008–present • Website — isabellacastillo.com Isabella Castillo Díaz (born 23 December 1994) is a Cuban-American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Grachi, the lead character of the Nickelodeon TV series Grachi, for which has released several soundtrack albums. Castillo has also starred on other successful TV series and telenovelas such as Tierra de reyes, Sed de venganza, El Señor de los Cielos, Club 57, The Inmate and Malverde: El Santo Patrón, as well as the musical film La Usurpadora: The Musical.

Isabella Castillo was born on 23 December 1994, daughter of singer Delia Díaz de Villegas and percussionist José Castillo. Her older sister is Giselle, a pianist and music teacher. In 1997, at the age of three, she emigrated to Belize, moving to Miami, Florida, some months later. At the age of five, she debuted as a singer in one of her mother's concerts: from that moment, she began to take dancing, singing and acting lessons, studying music at Musical Procenter and winning four times the Grand Prize at the Youth Fair of the Florida International University. On 26 March 2005, she won the first prize as Most Promising in the Children Singing Division at the USA World Showcase and on 15 July, she took the stage on the Manuel Artime Theater in Miami in the musical Fantasia en Disney; she also participated in the contest Best New Talent in Los Angeles and in the concert offered by the Israeli Embassy for Cuban people living in the USA. In 2007, she gained the Magnet Outstanding Performance recognition at the South Miami Middle Community School and she was invited to honor the neo-elected president of Israel Shimon Peres. Again in 2007, persuaded by the producer Óscar Gómez, she started an intensive course of acting with Cuban actress Lili Rentería, preparing for the audition in Madrid for the musical El diario de Ana Frank – Un canto a la vida; moving in Spain with her family, after three rounds of auditions she was given the main role. The musical, which opened on 28 February 2008, won her the Gran Via Award as Best Revelation in a Musical. Back in the United States in 2009, she began her acting career in Telemundo on the telenovela El fantasma de Elena (2010), in which she played as seventeen-year-old girl Andrea Girón; at the end of Elena, she got the role of Grachi, the main character of the homonymous telenovela of Nickelodeon Latin America. During the broadcast, in February 2012, of the second of three seasons, Castillo participated in the musical Grachi: El show en vivo. Thanks to Grachi, between 2011 and 2012, Castillo won the Favorite Actress award at the Kids' Choice Awards México, Kids' Choice Awards Argentina and Meus Prêmios Nick, becoming also the first to win the Favorite Latin Artist award at the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards. In February 2013, she signed with Warner Music Latina for her first album, Soñar no Cuesta Nada, released on 23 April. In March, Castillo won the Favorite Latin Artist Award for the second time at the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards. In September 2014, singer Patricio Arellano published his third album, featuring a duet with Castillo titled "Que duermas conmigo". On 21 October, it was announced that Castillo was cast in the telenovela Tierra de reyes and portrayed the dual role of Alma Gallardo and Verónica Saldívar. She also appeared on ¿Quién es quién?. Meanwhile, she acted in Araceli Álvarez de Sotomayor's Tacones enanos, a Spanish theater play, from 9 December 2015 to 10 January 2016. In 2019, she received the McAllen Texas Keys of the City.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref. • 2023 — La Usurpadora: The Musical — Valeria and Victoria Bracho • 2025 — Mirreyes contra Godínez: Las Vegas — Elvira

• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref. • 2010 — El fantasma de Elena — Andrea Girón — Recurring role • 2011 — Grachi: Quiero Mis 16, Matilda — Graciela "Grachi" Alonso — Television film • 2011–2013 — Grachi — Main role • 2012 — Grachi: La Vida es Maravillosamente Musical — Television film • 2014–2015 — Tierra de reyes — Alma Gallardo and Verónica Saldívar — Main role • 2015–2016 — ¿Quién es quién? — Tania Sierra • 2016 — Yo soy Franky — Luz Andrade • 2017 — Vikki RPM — Roxana "Rox" Cruz • Milagros de Navidad — Marina — Episode: "Un Milagro en la Cocina" • 2018–2026 — El Señor de los Cielos — Diana Ahumada — Main role (seasons 6–10) • 2018 — The Inmate — Linda Morris — Main role • 2019 — Club 57 — Amelia Rivera • 2021 — Malverde: El Santo Patrón — La China Navajas • 2024–2025 — Sed de venganza — Fernanda Ríos / Regina Castaño • 2025-2026 — Dinastía Casillas — Diana Ahumada • 2025 — I'm Not Supposed To Be Here — Herself — Guest role • Mal de Amores

• Year — Title — Role — Ref. • 2005 — Disney's Fantasia — Herself • 2008 — El Diario de Ana Frank: Un Canto a la Vida — Anne Frank • 2012 — Grachi: El Show en Vivo / Grachi: El Nuevo Show en Vivo — Graciela "Grachi" Alonso • 2015 — Tacones Enanos — Victim of a bank robbery

• Title — Details • Soñar No Cuesta Nada — * Released: 23 April 2013 * Label: Nickelodeon, Warner Music * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming

• Title — Details • El Diario de Ana Frank: Un Canto a la Vida — * Released: 22 May 2008 * Label: Ana Frank * Formats: CD • Grachi: La Vida es Maravillosamente Mágica — * Released: 7 June 2011 * Label: Nickelodeon, Universal Music, Virgin, Warner Music * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming • Grachi: La Vida es Maravillosamente Mágica (Volume 2) — * Released: 11 April 2012 * Label: Nickelodeon, Warner Music * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming • Grachi: La Vida es Maravillosamente Mágica (Volume 3) — * Released: 4 March 2013 * Label: Nickelodeon, Warner Music * Formats: Streaming • Yo soy Franky — * Released: 12 May 2017 * Label: Nickelodeon * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming • Vikki RPM — * Released: 4 August 2017 * Label: Nickelodeon * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming • Club 57 — * Released: 8 November 2019 * Label: Nickelodeon, Sony Music * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming • La Usurpadora: The Musical — * Released: 7 April 2023 * Label: Universal Music, Virgin * Formats: Digital download, streaming