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Kuno Becker
Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz (born January 14, 1978) professionally known as Kuno Becker, is a Mexican actor and film director who has worked in telenovelas, Mexican and American cinema. He is best known for his portrayal of Ruben Berrizabal in ''Soñadoras'', and Santiago Muñez in the football film '' Goal!'' and its sequels. He also starred as Drew Ramos on the American drama series ''Dallas''. Early years After obtaining a scholarship, he traveled to Europe and began his studies at the Mozarteum in the city of Salzburg, Austria, where he spent several years taking violin lessons with Ruggiero Ricci. He is a grandnephew of legendary Mexican actress María Félix. Career At seventeen Kuno made the decision to set aside his career as a violinist, in order to pursue what he now considers his greatest passion, acting. He auditioned with more than 3,200 candidates and was accepted as a student at the Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) of Televisa. At the age of nineteen, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisa
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa announced that they would sell the company's media and entertainment assets to Univision Communications, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on 31 January 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin McDonagh
Martin Faranan McDonagh ( ; born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright and filmmaker. He is known for his Absurdism, absurdist Black comedy, dark humour which often challenges the modern theatre aesthetic. He has won List of awards and nominations received by Martin McDonagh, numerous accolades including an Academy Award, six BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Laurence Olivier Awards, Olivier Awards in addition to nominations for five Tony Awards. His plays, many of which have been produced in the West End (theatre), West End and on Broadway (theatre), Broadway, include ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'', ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'' (both 1996), ''The Lonesome West'' (1997), ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' (2001), ''The Pillowman'' (2003), ''A Behanding in Spokane'' (2010), and ''Hangmen (play), Hangmen'' (2015). McDonagh won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for ''Six Shooter (film), Six Shooter'' and has received nominations for List of award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pillowman
''The Pillowman'' is a 2003 play by British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995, also a final and completed version of the play was publicly read in 1998 and then finished and released as a book in some places in 1999. Production started in 2000 for the eventual 2003 performance. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre child murders occurring in his town. The play received the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2004-5 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play, and two Tony Awards for production. It was nominated for the 2004 Evening Standard Award for Best New Play. Summary Katurian, a writer of short stories that often depict violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mujeres Engañadas
''Mujeres engañadas'' (English: ''Deceived Women'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1999-2000. The telenovela tells the story of four couples who live in the same apartment building. On Monday, October 25, 1999, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting ''Mujeres engañadas'' weeknights at 9:00 pm, replacing ''Infierno en el paraíso''. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, April 7, 2000 with ''La casa en la playa'' replacing it the following Monday. The telenovela stars Laura León, Andrés García, Arturo Peniche, Michelle Vieth, Kuno Becker, Sabine Moussier, Eric del Castillo and Elsa Aguirre. Plot ''Mujeres engañadas'' tells the story of four couples that live in the same building, within which lies and infidelity are the principal relationship and family problems that confront those involved. The first couple are Yolanda and Javier Duarte ( Laura León and Andrés García). Yolanda is a woman of humble origins who married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camila (telenovela)
''Camila'' is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa in 1998. The story is a remake of 1978 Mexican telenovela ''Viviana''. It aired on Canal de Las Estrellas from September 14, 1998 to January 15, 1999. Bibi Gaytán and Eduardo Capetillo starred as protagonists, while Adamari López, Kuno Becker, Diana Golden, Arlette Pacheco, Julio Mannino, Lourdes Reyes, Xavier Ortiz and Mariagna Prats starred as the main antagonists. Gabriela Goldsmith, Víctor Noriega and Enrique Lizalde starred as the Stellar performances. Plot Camila Flores (Gaytán) lives with her grandfather in a small village. She meets Mexico City attorney, Miguel Gutierrez (Capetillo), and they quickly fall in love and are married in a civil ceremony. Their church wedding is planned to be a few weeks later, but it never takes place. Miguel abandons his new wife to marry Mónica Iturralde (López), the spoiled daughter of powerful lawyer Don Armando Iturralde (Lizalde). Racked b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucero Suárez
Lucero Suárez (born December 3, 1963, in Mérida, Yucatán, México) is a Mexican producer and screenwriter. Biography Lucero Suárez began her career as a production manager in various soap operas with the producer Carlos Téllez including the soap opera ''Cuna de lobos''. As executive producer, began in 1996 with the telenovela "Para toda la vida", based on the Chilean soap opera ''La madrastra''. In 1998, she made the soap opera ''Rencor apasionado'' based on a radionovela of Hilda Morales Allois. In 2001, she produced ''El noveno mandamiento'' also based on a radionovela of René Allouis. In 2001, she produced ''Amar otra vez'' written by Pablo Serra and Erika Johanson. In 2005, she produced the children's soap opera ''Pablo and Andrea'', the last children soap opera in Televisa, with an original story of Lorena Salazar, Areli Caraza and Alejandro Cicchitti. In 2006-2007, she returned to produce a soap opera of Pablo Serra and Erika Johanson, this time including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "''El Señor Telenovela''" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the world. Acting career Ernesto began his career as an uncredited extra in '' La Zandunga'' (1938), a movie starring Lupe Vélez. He then appeared in 1939's " Papacito Lindo". His popularity grew as he starred in many films of the 1940s, including "La Gallina Culeca", "Historia de una gran Amor", "El Padre Morelas", "El Jorobado", "La Corte del Faraon", "Marina", "El Gallero", and "El Precio de la Gloria" in which he starred with his brother Alfonso Ramírez Alonso. He made another series of films throughout the 1950s, including as the narrator of '' Los Olvidados'' (1950) and the lead in '' Ensayo de un crimen'' (1955), both directed by Luis Buñuel. However, it wasn't until the 1960s that Ernesto began appearing in telenovelas. His first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desencuentro (1997 TV Series)
''Desencuentro'' (English: ''Disagreement'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa in 1997. On Monday, November 17, 1997, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting ''Desencuentro'' weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing ''Esmeralda''. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, April 3, 1998, with ''Vivo por Elena'' replacing it the following Monday. The telenovela starred Juan Ferrara, Daniela Castro, Alma Muriel and Ernesto Laguardia. Cast * Juan Ferrara as Andrés Rivera * Daniela Castro as Victoria San Román Jiménez *Alma Muriel as Valentina Quintana de Rivera *Ernesto Laguardia as Luis Torres *Juan Peláez as Esteban Aguirre *María Victoria as Julia *Leticia Perdigón as Chaquira *Luz María Jerez as Sandra Lombardo *Sergio Ramos "El Comanche" as Rufino *Miguel Pizarro as Toni *Juan Manuel Bernal as Sergio Estévez *Emilia Carranza as Inés Altamirano *Eugenio Cobo as Fernando Estévez *María Eugenia Ríos as Queta *Manuel Ojeda as Alfredo San Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Osorio
Juan Manuel Osorio Ortiz (born June 24, 1957, in Toluca de Lerdo, Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the w ... producer. Filmography Theater *''Aristemo el Musical'' (2019) * ''Aventurera'' (2017) * Mi corazón es tuyo (2015) Awards and nominations Premios TVyNovelas Premios People en Español TV Adicto Golden Awards References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Osorio, Juan 1957 births Living people Mexican television directors Mexican telenovela producers People from Mérida, Yucatán ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Alberto Castro
José Alberto Castro (born José Alberto Sáinz Castro, 31 May 1963) is a Mexican producer and director. Biography He is the brother of actresses Verónica Castro, Beatriz Castro, telenovela producer Fausto Gerardo Sáinz, and the uncle of Mexican singer Cristian Castro. He began his career in the production crew in the telenovela ''Mi pequeña Soledad''. He was married to Angélica Rivera from 1994–2008; the couple had three daughters. The couple divorced in 2008, and their marriage was annulled by the Catholic Church. He worked as a producer of variety shows presented by Verónica Castro, such as the ''La movida'' (1991), ''Vero América va!'' (1992), ''En la noche'' (1994) and ''La tocada'' (1996). In 1993 debut as executive producer of telenovelas in '' Valentina'' starring Verónica Castro, Juan Ferrara and Rafael Rojas. Filmography Awards and nominations Premios TVyNovelas The Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
