Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a model and actress.
Fuentes was born to a Cuban father and Spanish mother. When Fuentes was three years old, the family moved to her mother's relatives in Madrid, Spain, during the five years her sister Rosana was born.
Later the family emigrated to Harrison, New Jersey, four years later, living on Sussex Street.
Fuentes studied communications and journalism at Bergen Community College and then was hired as the weather-girl for WNJU-TV, Channel 47, a Telemundo station. She quickly moved up the ranks, eventually becoming a news anchor and reporter for the evening news.
MTV took notice of the 19-year-old Fuentes and made her host of MTV International which was a success, it later became MTV en Español and later MTV Latin America. She later landed a role on the ABC soap opera Loving. Fuentes appeared on shows such as Dream On, The Larry Sanders Show, and Cybill. From 1994 to 1995, she hosted her own talk show, Daisy, on CNBC. She was the host of America's Funniest Home Videos for three seasons. She hosted The ALMA Awards, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, the 1998 World Music Awards, the 1999 Billboard Latin Awards, and the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe pageants. She Guest starred in the tv series Queen Of Swords episode "runaways" 2000. She has been a spokeswoman for the companies Revlon, American Express, Pantene, M&M's, and Miller Lite.
Hugh Hefner reportedly invited Fuentes numerous times in the early 90's to pose nude in Playboy magazine, but she has insisted that she will never do nude modeling.
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