11 Things You Didn't Know About Luisana Lopilato (2024)

It was all luck for Luisana, who didn't think about acting before a manager approached her in the street.

"I was 6 years old and I was in Buenos Aires. I was playing on the street with my mom, and a manager, who was living in the area, said to my mom: 'Listen, I'm looking for a little girl for a commercial, and we're looking for someone like your kid. Do you think that you can take her to do the audition?' My mom wasn't sure at that time, but the woman said, 'I'm going to leave you my number, and you can contact me if you're interested,'" Luisana told POPSUGAR Latina.

"My dad — he always loved to act, and he said, 'Why don't you take her?' and my mom still said no; she was scared. So my dad took me without my mom knowing, and I got the part, and never stopped."

When she was 12, Luisana got cast as Luisana Maza on the fifth season of the hit show Chiquititas, a musical telenovela for kids about an orphanage. She released several albums with her costars and acted on the show for three years.

"There are too many favorite songs, but I think 'Rinconcito de Luz' is my favorite. Oh wow, there are too many. 'Todo, Todo' and 'Chufa Chá.' I remember dancing to all of them, and I like them . . . I really like them. As a mom now, I can go on YouTube and show my son, and he looks at me so weirdly, like, 'What is that?'"

After Chiquititas, Luisana went on to star in Rebelde Way, a soap opera about four classmates who form a band at a boarding school. The pop group became a real-life sensation, and Luisana got to tour the world — you might also know the Mexican version, Rebelde.

But does she still stay in touch with her bandmates? "I'm in touch with Benjamín [Rojas] and Felipe [Colombo], but not with Camila [Bordonaba] anymore. I think she went to live abroad," she said.

"It's really funny! I went to see Michael's show and I had a friend working at Warner Music at the time. He knew me because of Rebelde Way, and he asked me to go to Michael's hotel after the show to take a picture with him. I said: 'No, I don't want to go' — because this is the way it works in Argentina, you know? You go see someone at a hotel, and then you're all over the magazines. So I said no, but he said, 'No, he's so quiet, nice, and he's with his family.' So I said OK," Luisana recounted of meeting Michael in Buenos Aires.

"I had a guy friend that was on a TV show with me at the time, so we went together. I get to meet Michael, his grandpa, and his band, and we took a picture. But he was telling my friend that he had beautiful eyes and asking him questions, so I thought he was gay. I said, 'Oh, my God, he's all over my friend,' but he was trying to figure out if we were together," she said, laughing.

Luisana has two boys with husband Michael, 1-year-old Elias and 3-year-old Noah, and she admits two is a way bigger handful than one.

"It's hard, it's hard. I had a difficult time the first two months, and now I'm getting better. I know I need two backpacks, what I need to pack, what I need to take with me, the bottles, the milk. I've got a list so every time I go out of the house I check it, and I have everything ready. Before, I'd forget everything! I didn't bring any diapers with me once, I was like, 'Where's my mind? I'm not taking diapers for the little baby,'" she said of being a new mom of two under 3.

Michael tours the world, while Luisana's film projects sometimes keep her in Argentina, but she says the secret is to stand with each other, no matter what.

"We're going back and forth a lot between Canada and Argentina, but you know what? It's good! He really supports me a lot, and when he has time off he comes with me and helps me on set and with the kids. He really is a good match for me. He knows I love my career, and I can't be without my kids, and we make it work," Luisana said.