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Las Aventuras Del Capitán Alatriste (TV Series)
''Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste'' is a Spanish adventure television series set in the early 17th century, consisting of an adaptation of the Captain Alatriste novel series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, starring Aitor Luna in the lead role. It aired from January 2015 to April 2015 on Telecinco. Premise The fiction takes place in the first half of the 17th century. It follows the adventures of the Captain Alatriste (Aitor Luna), taking him—besides Madrid—to Paris and Vatican City. Cast * Aitor Luna as Diego Alatriste. * Natasha Yarovenko as María de Castro. * Lucía Jiménez as Caridad la Lebrijana. * Patricia Vico as Teresa de Alquézar. * as Francisco de Quevedo. * Filippo Sbalchiero as Gualterio Malatesta. * Gary Piquer as Count-Duke of Olivares. * Marcos Ruiz as Íñigo de Balboa y Aguirre. * as Angélica de Alquezar. * Rafael Cebrián as Count of Guadalmedina. * as Fray Emilio Bocanegra. * Luis Callejo as Luis de Alquézar. * as Sebastián Copons. * Diana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Fiction
Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of Romance (prose fiction)#Definition, romance fiction. History In the Introduction to the ''Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction'', Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows: D'Ammassa argues that adventure stories make the element of danger the focus; hence he argues that Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is an adventure novel because the protagonists are in constant danger of being imprisoned or killed, whereas Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' is not because "Pip's encounter with the convict is an adventure, but that scene is only a device to advance the main plot, which is not truly an adventure." Adventure has been a common theme (literature), theme since the earliest days of written fiction. Indeed, the standard plot of Romance (heroic literature), Medieval romances was a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Piquer
Gary Piquer is a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1979. Selected filmography References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Spanish male film actors 21st-century Spanish male actors {{Spain-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the title "Eminence" applied to cardinals and the red robes that they customarily wear. Consecrated a bishop in 1607, Richelieu was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. He continued to rise through the hierarchy of both the Catholic Church and the French government by becoming a cardinal in 1622 and chief minister to King Louis XIII of France in 1624. He retained that office until his death in 1642, when he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered. He also became engaged in a bitter dispute with the king's mother, Marie de Médicis, who had once been a close ally. Richelieu sought to consolidate royal power and restrained the power of the nobility in order to transform France into a strong centralized state. In foreig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arly Jover
Araceli "Arly" Jover is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her role as the villainous vampire Mercury in the 1998 superhero film ''Blade (1998 film), Blade''. Life and career Araceli Jover was born in Melilla, a Spanish region. After living there for five years, her family was forced to move to Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands (Spain) because of her father's work as a soldier. She is the youngest of seven siblings, four sisters and three brothers. During her early years, she wanted to become a dancer. She began dancing at the age of 8. At 14, she dropped out of school, and at 15, she won a scholarship from the Comité Hispano Norteamericano. Because of this, she left Spain and moved to New York City in order to continue to study at the School of American Ballet under Martha Graham. After two years and half in the United States, her career then moved on to becoming an actress sometime around 1995–1996. She had her first role in an episode of the TV show ''Women: Stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofía Oria
Sofía Oria (Madrid, Spain; born June 8, 2002) is a Spanish actress known for playing Carmencita in the Goya-winning film ''Blancanieves'' and Carmen in the Movistar+ series ''Gigantes''. Biography Sofía Oria was born on June 8, 2002 in Madrid, Spain. She took acting classes with Nuria Soler, and after completing her high school studies, she began studying psychology and criminology. Trajectory Shortly after her tenth birthday, she participated in the Goya-winning film ''Blancanieves'' in 2012, playing Carmencita. That same year, she also participated in the film '' Invasor'', directed by Daniel Calparsoro. In 2015, she joined the cast of the Telecinco blockbuster '' Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste'', which was filmed in 2013 and in which she played Dorotea. After taking a few years off to focus on her studies, she returned to the world of acting in 2018 with the Movistar+ series ''Gigantes''. In 2020, she appeared as a supporting actress in '' Caronte'', where she p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe IV
Philip IV ( es, Felipe, pt, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the Thirty Years' War. By the time of his death, the Spanish Empire had reached approximately 12.2 million square kilometers (4.7 million square miles) in area but in other aspects was in decline, a process to which Philip contributed with his inability to achieve successful domestic and military reform. Personal life Philip IV was born in the Royal Palace of Valladolid, and was the eldest son of Philip III and his wife, Margaret of Austria. In 1615, at the age of 10, Philip was married to 13-year-old Elisabeth of France. Although the relationship does not appear to have been close, some have suggested that Olivares, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aura Garrido
Aura Garrido Sánchez (born 29 May 1989) is a Spanish film and television actress. She has appeared in such films as ''Stockholm'' as well as the television series '' El ministerio del tiempo''. Early life Garrido was born in Madrid in 1989. Her father Tomás Garrido is a composer and orchestra conductor, and her mother, Pilar Sánchez, is a painter. She took her first piano classes when she was four years old, and soon after, started practicing ballet. She speaks English thanks to having an English-speaking best friend growing up. After ending her high school studies, she enrolled herself in the ''Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático'', in Madrid, she took interpretation until her third year, specializing in textual interpretation, but she dropped out in 2010 because she was cast for the film '' Planes para mañana''. This role earned her the '' Silver Biznaga'' for best supporting actress and a Goya Awards nomination in the best breakthrough actress category among other nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles I Of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna of Spain, Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiation. Two years later, he married the House of Bourbon, Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France. After his 1625 succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, English Parliament, which sought to curb his royal prerogati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Von Jascheroff
Constantin von Jascheroff (born 5 March 1986) is a German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1995. Filmography German Dub References External links * 1986 births Living people German male film actors German male voice actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Villiers, 1st Duke Of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and possibly also a lover of King James I of England. Buckingham remained at the height of royal favour for the first three years of the reign of James's son, King Charles I, until a disgruntled army officer assassinated him. Early life Villiers was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, on 28 August 1592, the son of the minor gentleman Sir George Villiers (1550–1606). His mother, Mary (1570–1632), daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire, was widowed early. She educated her son for a courtier's life and sent him to travel in France with John Eliot. Villiers took to the training set by his mother: he could dance and fence well, spoke a little French, and overall became an excellent student. Godfrey Goodman (Bishop of Gloucester from 1624 to 1655) declared Villiers "the handsomest-bodied man in all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Miller (actor, Born 1978)
William Thomas Francis Miller (born 9 September 1978) is an actor and singer.William's Resumé on http://wiltfmil.wix.com/william-miller-web-page#!portfolios retrieved on 7-23-2016. Of American and British parentage, he has lived in the UK, the United States and mainly in Spain. Miller studied History, Archeology and Performing Arts in Spain,William's Resumé on http://wiltfmil.wix.com/william-miller-web-page#!portfolios retrieved on 7-23-2016 and speaks English, Spanish, Catalan, and French. He is well known for working in several Spanish television series, and has played supporting roles in Spanish, Mexican, American, British and French films. He has received some good reviews on his latest works. Miller has also worked in theatre, including classical Spanish plays and musicals, and was the frontman of the Spanish rock band Deniro for five years. He had been in a relationship with Eliza Taylor since April 2018. They stopped dating during Christmas holidays the same year by m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Anna Of Spain
, house = Habsburg , father = Philip III of Spain , mother = Margaret of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Linz, Austria , burial_place = Imperial Crypt , religion = Roman Catholicism Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 160613 May 1646)Eduard Heydenreich: ''Handbuch Der Praktischen Genealogie'', p. 52, BoD – Books on Demand 2012 - 448 p. etrieved 1 November 2016 was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to |
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