Jimena Hoyos

Jimena Hoyos Souza (born Dec. 31, 1977) is an actress from Bogotá, Colombia.[1] Hoyos has worked in television, short films, and films outside Colombia. She is most known for her role in The Devil Wears Prada and for being runner-up in the Soap Net Original Series I Wanna Be a Soap Star.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hoyos and the second or maternal family name is Souza.

Background and career

Hoyos studied plastic arts in Colombia. She moved to the United States and worked as a magazine as editor. She took acting classes at Stella Adler Studio of Acting and in Sheila Gray Acting studio. After two weeks of taking acting classes, she started to play roles in TV series in Colombia. Because of her success, she moved to the United States where started to act in some films, short films and series, and worked as a model.[2]

Career

Personal life

Hoyos was born in Colombia. and she has roots in the southern countries of South America where her family was born. Hoyos shows up her incredible own sensitiveness, her ability to transmit what she wants, her creativity, and her sense of being touched by the nature not only by acting in the films she participates, in but also spreading all of her sentiments for the dogs by taking photographs of street dogs and creating their own frames with her foundation called "Gozques" dedicated for the welfare of the dogs in the streets, in memoria of her dog "Zico" when he died.

Gozques Foundation

Hoyos has been very active with her foundation named Gozques and she has been feeding more than one hundred dogs daily with a food dispenser for dogs she created in a very creative and efficient way to keep the street dogs with food.[3] Also, she has been designing the frames for the pictures she takes of the dogs making them with different elements she takes from junkyards getting them reusable becoming the design of the frame fitted with the environment of the picture.[4][5] She persuaded many celebrities to embrace that cause like the British racing driver Sam Reklaw who she advised to decorate his race car with the logos of the various animal shelters in order to raise some sort of awareness.[6]

References
  1. "Jimena Hoyos". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  2. Zoom Magazine, September 9, 2013, by zoomword
  3. Revista Bocas, El Tiempo 14 de Enero de 2015
  4. Revista Cromos, 26 DE JULIO DE 2013
  5. Jimena Hoyos.... Puedes hacer la diferencia Life Stylos 2013
  6. "Sam Reklaw on Homeless Animals, And the Heroes Who Help Them". sg.style.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.


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