Natalia Denegri (born 18 March 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) producer and writer, residing in Miami, United States. She began her career as an actress and host in Argentina, where she participated in TV shows, plays and a radio program. In the United States, she has won 22 Emmy Awards.
Early career
Born in Buenos Aires, Denegri studied Law at the University of Belgrano, in Buenos Aires. Then she studied Communication Science in Miami. Her first acting studies were with Dora Baret in Argentina and in Mexico with Socorro Anadón. She also studied mass communication and public speaking at Arts Media Mass Communication in the city of Miami.
Before settling in the United States of America, Denegri made her debut in Argentina as an actress in 1998 with the play Verano del Pacu. The following year she starred in the play Zona Roja alongside actors Facha Martel, Delfor Medina, Romerito and Mario Castiglione.
In 2001 she worked as an announcer in the radio program Bienvenidos a Bordo -nominated for the Faro de Oro award in Mar del Plata- and in 2003 she hosted Magazine Verano on Canal 13 in Paraguay. In 2004, she traveled to Mexico to participate in the Mexican program Otro Rollo de Adal Ramones. There, she also worked as a model and in TV commercials. When she returned to her country, in 2006 she was part of the interview program for celebrities Ángel o Demonio on the TVA channel and the sports program Solo Polo, broadcast on Channel 13 of San Luis. In 2012 she returned to Mexico, where she joined the cast of the miniseries Eureka en el Camino.
In 2012 she made her debut with the movie El Pozo (The Well), directed by Rodolfo Carnevale. Filmed in 2006 in the province of San Luis, Argentina, it stars Patricia Palmer, Eduardo Blanco, Adriana Aizenberg, Dora Baret, Gustavo Garzón, Juan Palomino, Ana Fontán and Norma Pons. For her performance, she received the award for Revelation Actress 2012 at the first International Independent Film Festival (MICI), in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico.
Career in the United States
Television
On August 25, 2013, the show Corazones Guerreros had premiered on the CNN Latino television network, which Denegri hosted with Minda Seco. The show then moved to Mega TV. The program was dedicated to help those most in need, especially children with physical disabilities. It featured a special edition called Double Exile with which Denegri earned a nomination for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
For her social and humanitarian journalistic work in this program, Denegri received the prestigious Carteles Award given by the magazine Carteles and Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado gave her the key of the city.
Corazones Guerreros has been running for 10 seasons and won 5 Emmy Awards, two of them in the category for Best Family and Children's Program.
She has produced various documentaries for Corazones Guerreros, such as Comedores y merenderos argentinos: espejos de las crisis and La Niña 48914, about the story of Eugenia Unger, a Holocaust survivor who founded the Buenos Aires and Miami Holocaust Museums.
On March 13, 2015, she premiered the television program Atrevidas on MiraTV, where she develops feminine themes related to fashion, beauty, health and entertainment.
Documentaries
Denegri was the host of the two part documentary Doble Exilio, produced by Nelson Bustamante and Elizabeth Hernández. The first part shows stories of Cubans who have had to emigrate twice, first from Cuba to Venezuela and then from Venezuela to the United States. She won the AIPE Golden Latin Awards 2015 and the Mayor of Doral, Luis Boria, gave her an honorary medal. The second part, produced by Bustamente and Elizabeth Hernández and directed by Félix Morante and Jefferson Cárdenas, deals with Venezuelan immigration. Thanks to this documentary, Denegri won her first Emmy in 2015.
On July 12, 2016, MiraTV premiered the documentary Que Todo El Mundo Se Entere presented by Denegri and Nelson Bustamante on the social, economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. On the same year, she received an Emmy nomination for the documentary Pon El Foco En La Carretera about road-safety education.
In 2017 she produced RCTV 10 Años Después, a documentary that develops the closure of the Venezuelan channel RCTV after President Hugo Chávez denied the renewal of the concession. It was hosted by Denegri under the executive production of Bustamante and it was an Emmy winner. She then made Buscando a Dios, a documentary about the pilgrimage of a man suffering from cancer that won an Emmy in the "Religious Program" category.
