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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. Modeling jobs at that time ranged from Lowrider Magazine, swimwear magazines, Venus Swimwear, Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie show aired on B.E.T., to Versce 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... 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 movie "Blind Passion," and had a supporting role in the Gary Busey/Lorenzo Lamas movie about Latino gang fights "Latin Dragon"... 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", as well as displaying her singing talents to promote her career as a Spanish/English pop artist on the show. Most recently Iliana has 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... 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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