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- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Yvonne is a 1st generation American born of South American parents whom emigrated to the U.S. when her older brother, Javier Ronceros, was just three years old. Her father, a Peronista and dental school drop-out met her mother, Maria A. Zender, when she was a t.v. spokes-model for both Pepsi and Nescafe coffee in Lima, Peru. Maria, was working in television, had auditioned for a telenovela when they married and she gave up her career. After living in Chicago, her mother issued her father an ultimatum, move to California or get a divorce. Thus, they moved to California and a few years later, Yvonne was born in Los Angeles CA. Although, her mother tried to jump start her career by modeling, she resigned herself to be a full-time housewife. Yvonne's mother, Maria Zender, is a 1st cousin to 1957 Miss Universe, Gladys Zender thus Yvonne and Javier are second cousins to Gladys' son, actor Christian Meier. Yvonne and her brother spent their formative years growing up in the shadow of Paramount Motion Picture Studios in Hollywood CA. Yvonne spent her childhood years, taking drama and voice classes and earned a scholarship to the University of Southern California where she studied for the Bachelor of Arts - English, Creative Writing under such distinguished professors as David St. John and T. Coraghessan Boyle. After graduation, she worked for Warner Bros., Jerry Weintraub Productions under Matt Leipzig. A few years later she moved to Las Vegas and began her stand-up comedy career and moved back to California 12 years later and is acting, writing and performing stand-up comedy in Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Yvonne Ronceros
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Yvonne's mother was a cousin to Miss Universe 1957, Gladys Zender and son, Christian Meier, is a second cousin to both Yvonne and Javier.
- Co-founded a literary magazine, Critique, at the University of Southern California that has published one of her poems.
- Has cheated death eight times: survived several car crashes, anaphylactic shock, scarlet fever and pneumonia to name a few.
- Is ambidextrous.
- Tested at a genius level at the age of 15 in high school.
- I'm a big believer that when you're ready for a big change; it will happen.
- After losing my Mom, my dog, my job and the love of my life in the space of four months, my friend said, I'm surprised you're vertical. Well, I'm ahead of the game everyday I'm vertical, so I'm thankful for that.
- Try, try harder until you get it. This is a recurring mantra of my father's.
- L-O-V-E, my mother used that to sign off on the phone instead of saying goodbye. I miss her terribly and remember that and it always makes me smile.
- Be original, this is something my brother, said to me when I was very, very little and I never forgot it.
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