• Two siblings; actress Kenya Mori and Kintaro Mori.
• She is half Mexican, one fourth Japanese, one fourth Uruguayan.
• Her favorite actors are Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman and Sandra Bullock.
• Her favorite movie is Jerry Maguire (1996).
• One of her hobbies is singing.
• Barbara Mori also has a son with actor, Sergio Mayer.
• Her father is half Japanese and half Uruguayan, Her mother is Mexican.

Barbara Mori was born February 2, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay. At the age of 3, when her Japanese-Uruguayan father and her Mexican mother divorced, Mori moved to Mexico. While working as a waitress at the age of 14, fashion designer Marcos Toledo invited her to work as a model. She later studied acting in El Centro de Estudios de Formaci?n Actoral. Mori first acted in the telenovela, "Al Norte del Coraz?n".

In 1998, she got her first leading role as Azul in the series "Azul Tequila". A year later she filmed the series "Me Muero por T?" in Miami. She participated in her first movie in 2000, in the Mexican comedy "Inspiraci?n" opposite 'Arath De La Torre' . Later, she acted in various other telenovelas including, "Amor Descarado" and the high rated Mexican soap "Rub?".