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El Candidato (TV Series)
''El Candidato'' (in English, ''The Candidate'') is a Mexican political thriller streaming television series created by Peter Blake and produced by Televisa for Amazon Prime Video. The main cast of the series consists of James Purefoy, José María de Tavira, Eréndira Ibarra, Joaquín Cosío Joaquín Cosío Osuna (born 6 October 1962) is a Mexican actor and poet. He is best known for roles such as Rubén "Mascarita" in ''Matando Cabos'' (2004), General Medrano in ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in '' Narco ... and Esmeralda Pimentel. The series trailer was released on 15 July 2020. The series premiered on 17 July 2020 on Amazon Prime Video. Plot Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María De Tavira
José María de Tavira Bianchi (born September 27, 1983, in Mexico City) is a Mexican film and stage actor. The son of Mexican theatre director Luis de Tavira and Argentine actress Rosa María Bianchi, he began acting on stage with his parents; at age seven had his first participation in an adaptation of ''Clotilde en su casa'' of Jorge Ibargüengoitia, then in 1994 participated in the work ''Jubileo'' by Jose Ramon Henríquez. Academy Award nominee Marina de Tavira is José María's cousin. He made his film debut in ''The Mask of Zorro'' playing the main character Alejandro Murrieta (Zorro) as a child. In 2002, he has a brief stint on the Mexican film ''Amar te duele'' by Fernando Sariñana. After that he went to London, England, to study drama at Royal Holloway, University of London. While studying in London, he was called to do a casting for the Mexican comedy ''Cansada de besar sapos'' (''Tired of Kissing Toads)''. He played the role of Xavier a stage actor who falls in lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Sánchez Navarro
Cassandra Sánchez Navarro (born 3 July 1991) is a Mexican actress, best known for her role Chelito Durán in the Televisa's telenovela '' Corona de lágrimas'', adaptation of the 1965 telenovela of the same name. Later she stood out as a villain in the telenovela '' Quiero amarte'', where she played Flavia. Recently she has had important roles in series such as ''La bella y las bestias'' (2018), ''This Is Silvia Pinal'' (2019), where she played Silvia Pinal's deceased daughter, Viridiana Alatriste. Cassandra is daughter of the actress Mónica Sánchez Navarro, niece of the actor Rafael Sánchez Navarro, granddaughter of the actors Manolo Fábregas and Fela Fábregas, great-granddaughter of actress Fanny Schiller and great-great-granddaughter of actress Virginia Fábregas, her grandparents, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother belong to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She studied acting and dramaturgy at the Televisa Centro de Educación Artística The Centro de Educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Prime Video Original Programming
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Places South America * Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river * Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries * Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin Elsewhere * 1042 Amazone, an asteroid * Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, US People * Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress * Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon" Art and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish-language Amazon Prime Video Original Programming
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish-language Television Shows
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s Mexican Drama Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofelia Medina
María Ofelia Medina Torres (born 4 March 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She was married to film director Alex Philips Jr. and actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Biography She was born in Mérida and has four siblings: Arturo, Leo, Ernesto and Beatriz. At the age of eight she moved with her family to Mexico City where she studied elementary, middle and high school as well as dance at the Academia de Danza Mexicana where she graduated as a performer and teacher of contemporary and regional classical dance. Her father, she has explained in several interviews, opposed her dedication to the artistic medium and she succeeded with the support of her mother. In 1961, at the age of eleven, she belonged to the children's pantomime group created by Alejandro Jodorowski, whom she considers her first teacher. In 1968, she was a student at the National Preparatory School of UNAM. In 1977, she studied acting with Lee Strasberg in Los Angeles and later emig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudette Maillé
Claudette Maillé (born 11 November 1964) is a Mexican actress best known for her roles in Mexican telenovelas and films. She has won two Ariel awards, one in 1992 as Best Supporting Actress for her participation in the film '' Like Water for Chocolate'', and other in 1994 as Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ... in the film ''Novia que te vea''. Early years Maillé born in Mexico City, Mexico on 11 November 1964. Of French descent, Claudette was born in Mexico, but spent several years of her adolescence in France, next to her mother and her siblings. In France, she began to study dance and acting. At age 20, Maillé returned to Mexico, where she continued to study acting at National Autonomous University of Mexico, but as a result of the strike suffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macarena Achaga
Macarena Achaga Figueroa (; born March 5, 1992), known professionally as Macarena Achaga, is an Argentinian model, actress, singer, and television hostess. In 2012, she debuted as an actress on the Mexican television series '' Miss XV'' and was a member of the Mexican-Argentine pop group, Eme 15, from 2011 to 2014. She is also best known for portraying the character Valentina Carvajal in the television series Love to Death. Early life Macarena Achaga Figueroa was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Her parents are architects. She is the oldest child and has a brother named Santiago, who is eight years younger. At 15, Achaga began her career as a model, travelling up to five hours every week by bus from Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires for jobs. She signed with Pink Model Management in Buenos Aires. Eventually, she signed with Mulittalient Agency, also located in Buenos Aires. At 18, she moved to Buenos Aires to further pursue her modeling career. Modeling career Achaga began her car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Gustavo Sánchez Parra (born 30 September 1966) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 2000. Selected filmography References External links * 1966 births Living people Mexican male film actors {{Mexico-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofía Espinosa
Sofía Espinosa Carrasco (born September 22, 1989) is a Mexican actress, writer and director. She began her artistic preparation at the National Conservatory of Music, and followed with studies at Casazul in Mexico, Claudio Tolcachir's school in Argentina, the Stella Adler Studio in New York City, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She received recognition for her role of Mati in the Mexican film '' La Niña en la Piedra (Nadie Te Ve)'' (2006), for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Actress. She subsequently starred in the TV series ''Capadocia'' (2010) and ''Bienvenida Realidad'' (2011). Espinosa is also featured in several other films including ''Sea of Dreams'' (2006), ''La Vida Inmune'' (2006), ''El Brassier de Emma'' (2007), ''The Kid: Chamaco'' (2009), ''I Miss You'' (2010), ''Vete Más Lejos, Alicia'' (2010), and ''Asteroide'' (2014). She also co-produced, co-wrote and starred in ''Los Bañistas'' (2014). For her lead performance in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Mendoza
Hernán Mendoza is a Mexican actor and theatre director best known in his native country for his roles in Mexican films, and telenovelas. in 2017 he won as Best Actor in a Minor Role for his role of Palafox in the film '' The 4th Company'' in the 59th Ariel Awards. Early career Mendoza was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. He is the son of the late theater director Héctor Mendoza, and brother of the renowned director and composer Rodrigo Mendoza. He studied acting at the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa. After that, he entered the Nucleus of Theater Studies evaluated by Julio Castillo Julio César Castillo Torres (born 10 May 1988) is an Ecuadorian amateur boxer. He won two medals at the Pan American Games: a bronze in 2007 and a silver in 2011. Career At the 2006 South American Games, Castillo lost to Hamilton Ventura in t ... and Luis Fernando de Tavira Noriega. Filmography Film roles Television roles References External links * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
