Maite Perroni Beoriegui (born March 3, 1983 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) is a Mexican singer and actress. Maite gained international popularity as a member of the successful group RBD. Maite Perroni was only eleven months old when she and her family moved to Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco in Mexico. Her father, Javier Perroni, was transferred to that city by his job, where the Perroni family lived for twelve years. She has two brothers; Adolfo, who is three years younger, and Francisco (Paco), who is nine years younger than she. Maite, or "Mai" as her closest friends call her, studied acting in Televisa's Centro de Educación Artistica (CEA) in the year 2000 coursing two years of the three years program. She made her debut as an actress in Rebelde, where she portrayed Guadalupe "Lupita" Fernández, who comes from a very humble family and gets the opportunity to study in Elite Way School, one of the most prestigious schools in Mexico City, thanks her excellent grades. Maite is also a member of the popular Mexican band RBD, which was formed during the recording of the series and became a phenomenom aorund the Latin America. The other members of the band (Dulce MarÃa, AnahÃ, Alfonso Herrera, Christian Chávez and Christopher Uckermann) are also within the cast of Rebelde. |