Ivelin Giro began her career in Havana, Cuba, and studied acting with the renowned actor and director Alejandro Lugo, who founded the Actors School of the Cuban Broadcasting Institute. Her first leading role was in the Cuban film La Novia para David. She also hosted the program Revista de la Mañana Cubana for the Cuban Television Network ICRT Instituto Cubano de Radio y Television.
During an international fashion event held in Cuba, Giro was chosen Most Popular Model and signed with a Milan-based modeling agency, landing in campaigns with Givenchy, L’Oreal, and others. She featured many magazine covers around the world including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Madame Figaro. As an international model, Giro walked in couture shows for designers Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Chloé, and Valentino, just to name a few.
Later she performed a variety of leading roles in different soap operas for Univision and Televisa. Giro also hosted the Telemundo program Cada Dia and acted in the movie Bad Boys 2 with Will Smith. She also participated in other movies as: Hey DJ, Category 4 and Tumbe.
In Miami, Giro re-launched her acting career in the Theater and play “Baño de Damas”, in which she played the character Marines, a cocaine-addicted young woman. Later, she performed the role of Olga Knipper, a Russian actress, in the play I Take Your Hand in Mine for the director Jim Tommaney. She led many episodes of the Telemundo series Decisiones, as well as several series as El Zorro La Espada y la Rosa where she played the leading role of Queen of Spain for Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television transmitted in Latin America, United States, the Caribbean, Spain, Russia, all the Scandinavian countries, Eastern Europe, Japan, and China.