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Luciana Salazar Ortega (born November 7, 1980, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a glamour model and actress.

Salazar began as a model when as a 4 year old she recorded her first television commercial.

In her adolescence she began to work as a model in Buenos Aires and began to take classes of dance and song.

Then she charged to fame with her appearance as an actress in the comedy show "Poné a Francella". Though the political fact that she was a niece of Argentine singer and then governor, Palito Ortega helped her into the acting world, it was by her own conditions that she began a successful career. Given her exhuberant figure, she began to star in different street theatre works, such as "Pijamas" becoming one of the leading media figures in Argentina.

Slowly she won a place in the media and on the covers of magazines and pages in newspapers in Argentina, Spain, United States and Europe.

In 2003, she realized several journalistic notes for the Argentine television channel America TV and made a controversial appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, promoting her image even more. In 2004, she participated in a hidden camera sketch, on the popular Argentinian television program "VideoMatch" (now ShowMatch), on the Telefé channel, hosted by Marcelo Tinelli. She acted in the television series "Costumbres argentinas, de las buenas y de las malas" (2003), "Los Roldán" (2004), "Amo de casa", "Gladiadores de Pompeya", both in 2006 and recently in the movie "Bañeros III, todopoderosos". Also she appeared on Chilean television, invited by Televisión Nacional de Chile on the program "De Pé a Pá" on October 24, 2004

In February of 2005 she was voted "Queen of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival" in Chile, and became a very popular personality in that country. She took part in various fashion shows, and in that same year she was the star of "Abtao Fashion 2005", an event in Peru, along with 70 other Peruvian models who modeled the latest fashions. She took part in the erotic television series "Luli in Love" on Playboy TV.

During the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 campaign, Salazar was voted the national football team's representative, a role which many called "Godmother".

Luciana with other Argentinian models participated during the end of the year 2006 of the program of TV "Showmatch" where participated in the segment "Bailando por un sueño". On December 2, 2006 the model was presented in the 2006 Telethon of Chile to host a segment called vedetón.

Currently she is recording her first disc as singer and beginning to film movies called "Explosive Brigade" and "Isidorito".