Kika Perez

Kika Perez, aka Ilva Margarita Perez, is a Colombian American Actress/TV host of Spanish descent. She is also known for being a writer and poet. (Born in Barranquilla, Colombia on 18 April 1979.)

Kika has hosted a series of U.S. Hispanic Network Television shows, starred in independent films and written for various publications and online sites. She is also known for her controversial bilingual written commentary and the online site El Sancocho Chronicles.

She recently played "Lizzie Dark" in award winning director Rolfe Kanefsky's neo-noir independent film "One in the Gun" (to be released in 2009), starring "Savage Island"'s Steven Man and a stellar cast including Steven Bauer and Robert Davi.

Career

Kika obtained a Communications and Journalism degree in Colombia in 2001 (Received a medal for Academic Excellence) and moved to the States soon after. She then began studies at the Creative Workshops School of Acting, where artists like Gloria Estefan (Music of the Heart) and fellow national, actress Sofia Vergara also got their training.

Television

In 2002, she joined the cast of Mun2 Network's Award Winning Talk Show, "Chat"; a controversial bilingual talk show voicing the points of views and experiences of young Hispanics living in the States. Chat was awarded a "Shine Award" in 2002 and a nomination the following year as "Best Latino Broadcast Variety Show."

Kika hosted other Mun2 shows like "Full Access" and the "411 News" on the urban hit show "The Roof".She later to co-hosted NBC-Telemundo's show "Ritmo y Sabor", one of the first Entertainment Reggaeton Music Variety Shows in a Major Hispanic Network, featuring urban, tropical and mainstream Pop artists, interviewing musicians like Alejandro Sanz and Russel Simmons. Perez was also invited to Guest Star on a few Univision Network's variety shows. She visited "Tu Desayuno Alegre", next to Mexican hosts Carlos Gastelum and Jessica Fox and, "A Tu Estilo", where she interviewed two time Latin Grammy nominee musician Ines Gaviria.

Kika also had small roles in Univision's Spanish language Telenovelas "Secreto de Amor" and "Gata Salvaje".

Film

The actress played a blonde "Latina" in Daniel Zirilli's Independent flick "Latin Kingz", released in 2003. Perez then joined the cast of Independent Film "Estados" (Argentina), as "Gabriella," opposite Mexican actor Alfonso de Anda, which won an award for Best Latin Film in the "Made in Miami" Film Festival.Kika also starred in the short films like "The Asylum" for Mac Vision Entertainment and also worked as the lead in Ecuadorian writer/director Ivan Ehlers's "Vlad and Antoinette" (To be released in Film Festivals in 2009).

Filmography:

Writing

Kika has written articles for publications like U.S. Hispanic Music Publication "Batanga Magazine" and hosted Batanga.com Specials (see other activities, below), amongst others, including copy for bilingual advertising agencies and entertainment websites. Her poetry is an intricate part of her creative life a and a few of her pieces have been published. "Forever Spoken", an ongoing publication by "The International Library of Poets" features her entry: "My Ruse". She has also contributed to online sites like DailyCents.com, writing articles about U.S. Hispanic Politics.

Also see "El Sancocho Chronicles" by Kika Perez, above.

Others

Kika Perez hosted Batanga.com's "Jeep's New Artist Adventure," a Documentary where she showcased Mexican Rock en Español Band "Leche"'s record making process in Miami with renowned producer [Sebastian Krys] . She was featured as Batanga.com's Latin Female of the month.

Sources

*Kika Perez: www.imdb.com/name/nm1337031/
*www.kikaperez.com
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000874/
*www.1inthegun.com, Official Film Site
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Man
*http://www.actorsaccess.com
*THE MEDIA PROJECT:http://themediaproject/shine/2002.htmlhttp://themediaproject/shine/2003.html
*http://www.BatangaMagazine.com, Leche Band, Jeep's New Artist Adventure 2005: Hosted by Kika *Perez Batanga Magazine Publication, issue 11Forever Spoken, Copyright (C) 2007, International Library of Poetry One Poetry Plaza Owings Mills, MD21117
*http://www.Dailycents.com
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_de_Anda
*Mun2 Host pages: Kika Perez, Host for Mun2, 2002-2003Telemundo Host pages, Kika Perez, Host for Telemundo 2003-2004
*http://www.becomeahost.com
*http://www.madeinmiami.org