Julia Mora

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name = Julia Mora|

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caption = Julia Mora| birthdate = birth date and age|1969|10|10
location = San Salvador, El Salvador
height = 5'7
birthname = Julia Haydee Mora Maza
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homepage =www.myspace.com/juliamora
occupation = Journalist/actress/writer
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Julia Haydee Mora Maza (October, 1969 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran beauty queen.

Mora is known not only for her exotic beauty, but for her popularity as a former Miss El Salvador linked romantically to Puerto Rican actor and TV icon , Erik Estrada. The article appeared on an issue of september 22 of 2008, in the english language magazine "The National Enquirer" with news that shocked the world about Mora's two year affair with Estrada. Mora's career as a ballerina dancer began at age 9 , performing in the National Theatre of San Salvador. At 16 she had an offer to host the musical show "Oti" in El Salvador, and because of her great performance, the production director of television channel 4, Miguel Aguilar, hired her to work as a model, lead voice and model's coordinator for the television station. Her biggest dream was always to become a medical doctor, so as she was attending "Colegio San Francisco", she was also enrolled in "Universidad Evangelica" to study medicine, but Mora also liked to travel, and soon after graduating from high school, she landed a job at T.A.C.A. international airlines, working as a flight attendant and she quit medical school, and she began to travel around the world, then an opportunity literally 'knocked' at her door, when the director of the "Miss El Salvador" phoned and asked her to participate in that beauty pageant and she accepted the offer. Mora won the crown an represented her country in the Miss Universe Pageant, celebrated in Miami, Florida. Out of the 79 contestants, Mora was selected by the media as one of the 10 favorites to win the crown, but she did not make it to the finals.

Because of the civil war in her country, Mora received political asylum in the U.S. and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Now, Mora is an American citizen and has already been in a movie in English, called "Patriotas", has partcipated in different television shows in Hollywood, had a one-year contract with Sainte Limited to model for one year. Mora also has worked as a writer for important magazines in Spanish in the U.S. like "TV y Novelas" and "MIRA", and also worked as a writer for Promofilm, a company that produces television shows for Telemundo in Los Angeles, California.