Daisy Fuentes

Daisy Fuentes carries two firsts — MTV's first Latina VJ and Revlon's first Latina signed to a worldwide contract — and to me those are not trivia, they are proof she was clearing a path that did not exist before her. Going from weather presenter to model, host, and actress takes more than versatility; it takes the will to walk through every door that opens and pry open the ones that do not. Her warmth on America's Funniest Home Videos was disarming, but I would argue her real contribution is generational: a Havana-born woman showing American media exactly what a Latina lead could look like.

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Name (English)

Daisy Fuentes

Name (Japanese)

デイジー・フエンテス

Reading

でいじー・ふえんてす

Born

November 17, 1966 (age 59)

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Occupation

actor / television presenter / model / film actor / weather presenter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

High school

Harrison High School

University

Bergen Community College

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.daisyfuentes.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/daisyfuentes/
• Xhttps://x.com/DaisyFuentes
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Fuentes
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453353

Tags

• Havana Province
• actor
• television presenter
• model

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.