Actress-model Bárbara Mori Ochoa was born on 2 February, 1978. She is of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage;[1] her Japanese ancestry is from her paternal grandfather.[2] She has two siblings, actress Kenya Mori and brother Kintaró Mori. Her parents Yuyi Mori and Rosario Ochoa divorced when she was three years of age. Mori spent her early childhood between Mexico and Uruguay and finally settled in Mexico City at the age of twelve.[3]