Yahaira Florentino
- Actress
- Producer
- Production Designer
Yahaira better known as #Yariflor is a bilingual actress based in Los Angeles. Her baby steps into acting were in front of the mirror at the age of two. She started professional training at seventeen when she was accepted at the Palace of Fine Arts "Bellas Artes" the national art conservatory in Santo Domingo, her home country. She has worked as a performer and actress ever since. Yari has been performing producing or acting for over 20 years all over the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States in numerous productions with renown personalities such as La Charo, Gloria Stefan, Olga Brisking Celine Dion and others. Taking breaks in between to be a mother, a wife, to go back to the university and to become an author. She emigrated to the United States at age of twenty-two as part of the Bravo show at the Sahara Casino in Las Vegas Nevada where she became part of the local scene as a notorious tropical performer, radio host and columnist of local magazines.
She is an experienced performer and actress in musicals, cabaret shows, experimental and classical theater disciplines, as in TV and films trained mainly at the Stela Adler acting studios, and Baron Brown studios in Los Angeles. In 2018 Yari founded her film making company #PajonPower (Afro power in English) as she is very proud of her afro latina roots. Her mission is to tell important stories of under-represented groups.
In 2021 she produced and lead her feature film in Mexico #yosoyBernabe. This film won more than a dozen awards around the world giving her 3 best actress nominations and 2 awards.