Diana Sabine Moussier (born 12 July 1966) is a German-born, Mexican-naturalized actress who is best known for her work, frequently as a villainess, in numerous Mexican telenovelas such as Entre el amor y el odio, La madrastra, and Mi pecado.
Moussier was born on 12 July 1966 in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. While still a very small child, Moussier and her mother left Europe and immigrated to Mexico. Moussier had a quiet childhood in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, but as a teenager she took an interest in acting and eventually moved to Mexico City, where she attended Televisa's Centro de Educación Artística.
Shortly after graduating from CEA, Moussier found work as the co-host of Al ritmo de la noche with Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo. Quickly thereafter, in 1996, Moussier was cast in minor roles in telenovelas Morir dos veces and Luz Clarita. The following year, Moussier portrayed the character of Mireya Serrano in María Isabel.
Moussier's star recognition increased in 1998 when she was cast as Lorenza Torres in the successful novela El privilegio de amar. The following year, she portrayed minor character Cristina in Rosalinda and the adulterous Diana de Lizárraga in Mujeres engañadas. In 2001, she took on the role of Graciela in El derecho de nacer, in which producers and viewers were first introduced to the full range of her acting talent.
In 2002, Moussier starred alongside César Évora and Susana González in Entre el amor y el odio, in which she potrayed the scheming Frida, who plots alongside the villainous Marcial to marry Évora's Octavio and gain control of his family's lands. After Entre el amor y el odio, Moussier took a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from acting in order to care for her newborn daughter, returning in 2005 with two new novelas. In February, Moussier once again debuted alongside Évora, as well as Victoria Ruffo, in the popular La madrastra as the vain and haughty murder suspect Fabiola de Mendizábal. Three months later, she starred in Piel de otoño as ambitious businesswoman Rebeca Franco, who carries on an affair with the heroine's villainous husband Ramón (Sergio Goyri).
Following the finale of Piel de otoño, Moussier again took time off for the the birth of her second child, returning to telenovelas late in 2006 as mob boss Eva Santoro in Amar sin límites. The following year, she briefly reunited with the cast of La madrastra and again took up the role of Fabiola in order to re-film the final ten episodes of the telenovela, which was being re-run at the time, and provide a new resolution to the murder mystery. At the end of the year, Moussier joined the star-studded cast of the mini-novela Amor sin maquillaje, which honored the fiftieth anniversary of Televisa and telenovelas in Mexico, as Beatriz.
In 2008, Moussier starred as Marissa, yet another villainess, in Las tontas no van al cielo. Later that year, she replaced Edith González as the protagonist in the musical play Aventurera, but eventually had to withdraw from the cast a few months later following a leg injury. The final year of the decade saw Moussier tackle the role of the seductive, social-climbing Justina Almada de Huerta, her first role as the mother of grown children, in Mi pecado.During the filming of Mi pecado, Moussier was diagnosed with
Guillain-Barré syndrome, and although she and producer Juan Osorio Ortiz initially altered her filming schedule in order to accommodate her recovery, she was eventually forced to withdraw from the cast shortly before the finale; her character, Justina, was not recast, as Osorio had planned in advance for the possibility of Moussier's departure.
In 1999, Moussier began dating Rodrigo Santos, and they moved in together shortly thereafter. The couple eventually split in 2002 after two-and-a-half years together. Later that year, Moussier started a relationship with Chilean businessman Jorge Peralta, and the couple's daughter, Camila Peralta Moussier, was born on 15 July 2003 in Mexico City. They later welcomed their son, Paulo Peralta Moussier, on 3 July 2006. Moussier and Peralta subsequently split in January 2008, publicly announcing their separation a month later on 19 February. Although Moussier often referred to Peralta as her husband,Peralta himself told gossip magazine TVnotas that the couple was never officially married; however, because Moussier and Peralta had cohabitted for more than five years and had had children together, they were required, under the Mexican Constitution to formally divorce nonetheless. Shortly after breaking up with Peralta, Moussier began dating a young man named Juan, but they ended their relationship in 2009.
In April 2009, Moussier became involved in a very public and lengthy war of words with fellow actress Sherlyn, who brought a lawsuit against Moussier's former partner Peralta in which she accused him of defrauding her of MXN$2 million while they were dating. Moussier paid Peralta's debt herself and then publicly denounced Sherlyn when the younger actress did not immediately drop the charges against Peralta.Peralta was eventually released from prison on 14 May, but Moussier later accused Sherlyn of violating the non-aggression pact that was included in the settlement of the lawsuit and threatened to reveal information that would ruin Sherlyn's career.The two actresses eventually came to an understanding following a telephone call and subsequently called a truce.
In late 2009, Moussier developed Guillain-Barré syndrome and was forced to alter her shooting schedule on
Mi pecado in order to promote her recovery. According to Juan Osorio, the producer of Mi pecado, Moussier's illness traveled from her spinal cord to her brain, affecting her ability to remember her lines and causing her such pain that doctors were forced to put her under sedation; additionally, he claimed that Moussier might be left paralyzed as a result of the illness. As a result of her worsening health, Moussier was forced to leave the cast of Mi pecado shortly before the completion of filming. Moussier announced in late November 2009 that her health was improving and that she would not be left paralyzed, although she stressed that Guillain-Barré "is an illness that takes months [from which to recover]".
