Katherine Moner: What happened to Isabela Merced’s mother?

Katherine Moner is the mother of Isabela Merced. Katherine Moner’s daughter Isabela is an American actress and singer. She gained popularity for playing the lead role of CJ Martin on the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School and voiced Kate in Nickelodeon’s animated spinoff series Dora and Friends: Into the City!. She is also known for her roles as Izabella in Transformers: The Last Knight, Lizzy in Instant Family, Isabel in Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), the titular character in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and Rachel Cooper in the Netflix film Sweet Girl. Isabela is not the only daughter of Katherine Moner.

Katherine Moner: Bio Summary

Who is Isabela Merced’s mother?

Isabela Merced’s mother, Katherine Moner is a Peruvian woman from the city of Lima. She is married to Patrick Moner from Louisiana. There is no detailed information regarding the couple’s marriage, however, they are the parents of three lovely children-  Gyovanni Moner, Jared Moner, and Isabela Merced

The couple’s talented daughter, Isabela Moner, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 10, 2001. She is the middle sibling of her family. Her sibling Giovanni is younger, and Jared is older than her. Isabela told Cleveland.com that her family lives in Cleveland, but because of her acting career, she is splitting her time between Los Angeles, New York, and Cleveland.

What work does Katherine Moner do? According to IMDb Katherine is a movie producer, she has one movie featuring her daughter Isabela linked to her name. Kathrine is known for producing- Isabela Merced: Apocalipsis(2020).

Information regarding Katherine Moner’s age and date of birth are unavailable at the moment. But as stated earlier she was born in Lima Peru.

Isabela Merced talked about Mom’s cancer battle

The Dora and the Lost City of Gold actress gave details of her mom Katherine’s battle with breast cancer – and how her family is getting through it together. The actress shared a collection of photos and a video of her mom Katherine Moner with the caption:

“Today my mom kicked ass!!! Now I don’t usually post about private matters, but I’ve never been happier and I’d like to share. The day I found out my mom had breast cancer, everything else seemed insignificant. This tested me more than anything I’ve ever experienced in my life. It could’ve brought me down, I could’ve become a bitter person… but I have never felt more faithful. I’m so happy we made it through. Even though I had no doubt she would.”

The actress remains positive that her mother is going to get through this with the family’s support. “It’s an ongoing battle, but I believe she’ll be just fine because she’s the strongest human I know,” Isabela wrote to her mother Katherine Moner

Isabela Merced and her mother Katherine Moner have a special connection

Katherine Moner’s daughter who considers herself more Peruvian than American has stated that Spanish was her first language, and she struggled with English when she first started grade school.

Isabela Moner credits her for teaching her the value of her Latina roots per HOLA– She said-“I have to thank my mom because she’s the one who made me value my roots and where I come from. I grew up in Ohio, and in school they made fun of my accent. I wanted to stop speaking Spanish, so my mom sent me to Peru to go to school for a semester, and that’s where I learned to value my roots.“

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Katherine Moner was very supportive of her daughter’s chosen career when she started in local community theatre at age six before making her Broadway debut at the age of ten in a production of Evita, in which she sang in Spanish with Ricky Martin.

Isabela Merced‘s first starring performance was as CJ Martin, the lead role on the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School,^[ from 2014 to 2016. That same year, she began providing the voice of Kate, one of the main characters in the Dora the Explorer spinoff, Dora and Friends: Into the City!, a role she performed from 2014 to 2017.

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On October 14, 2019, Katherine Moner’s daughter took to her Instagram account to announce that she had decided to change her stage name to Isabela Merced. This decision is to honor the memory of her late grandmother whom she never met but feels connected to. The actress later gave more insight saying it was “just a stage name but it’s got a deeper meaning”.