Petra Solano is a principal character on Jane the Virgin, portrayed by Yael Grobglas. Petra Andel is really Natalia, a girl from Olomouc, Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia), who worked as a street violinist. She fled her home country with her mother in 2009 to escape her criminal ex-boyfriend, Miloš[2] after her mother was attacked by him and came to the U.S. where she met and got engaged to Lachlan Moore.[3] She left her fiancé for Rafael Solano, who she fell in love with and is now…
