Iyari Limon

Date of Birth : 8 July 1976

Location : Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Birth Name : Iyari Pérez Limón

Height : 5’ 3" (1.60 m)

Mini Biography

Iyari Limon was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, but by the age of one she and her parents had made Southern California their new home. Although English is her primary language, she’s fluent in Spanish since being raised in a Spanish-speaking household all her life. She’s also semi-fluent in French, and being of Spanish, French, German, and Mexican-Indian descent, for her it seems only right to be able to speak some of these languages. She also is very well traveled and has lived abroad in such countries as Australia, France, Mexico, and England.

She began her acting career in 1995 with a guest appearance in an episode of "ER", followed by other significant guest roles on various TV shows including as a guest regular in 2000 on the MTV anthology series "Undressed." Her biggest break came in 2002 when she was offered the part of Kennedy, one of the ’Slayer Potentials’ on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Because of supportive fan mail, she continued appearing in all of the last 13 episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s" 7th and final season. Being the "Scoobie Gang’s" latest addition has a brought a whole new fame to Iyari, who now makes personal appearances at conventions around the world.

Most recently, she guest starred in the 2004 premiere episode of the Emmy award winning series "Without a Trace". She also appeared in numerous television commercials such as SBC, Always, Toyota, Dr. Pepper, etc. In 2001, she hosted Radio Disney’s world tour 2001 traveling to all the major cities in the U.S. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Spouse : Efren Ramirez (21 October 1998 - 1999) (annulled)

Trivia

Is bilingual; fluent in both English and Spanish. Although born in Mexico, she she moved to the USA with her parents at age 1.

Auditioned for the role of Carmen on the series "The L Word," but lost out to Sarah Shahi.

She ran the Aids Marathon in the winter of 2004 which took place in Honolulu and raised over $7000 for APLA (Aids Project Los Angeles)

She recently took an adventurer/research trip through the jungles of Peru with a girlfriend and a backpack, sleeping in hammocks, eating from fruit trees, and joining in on the ritual of the native shaman.

Being bilingual, Iyari often gets work in television commercials in both the U.S. as well as in Mexico, and has even done one commercial for Italian television.