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Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Alberto Darín (born 16 January 1957) is an Argentine actor, film director and film producer, he is considered one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema. Considered one of the greatest and most acclaimed movie stars of his country, he played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor. His most prominent roles as a film actor include ''Nine Queens'' (2000), ''El hijo de la novia'' (2001), ''Luna de Avellaneda'' (2004), '' The Aura'' (2005) and '' La señal'' (2007), which was also his directorial debut. He starred in the Academy Award winning film for Best Foreign Picture ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' (2009). In 2011, the Konex Foundation bestowed upon him their Konex Award, Diamond Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, for being the most important personality in entertainment in the last decade in his country. In 2015, he received the Goya Award for Best Actor for the film ''Trum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia, Italy. Buenos Aires is classified as an alpha global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2020 ranking. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goya Award For Best Actor
The Goya Award for Best Actor (Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación masculina protagonista'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. Actors that won or were nominated for this category have had a significant presence in several film festivals both Spanish and international, Imanol Arias ('' Lute: Run for Your Life''), Fernando Rey (''Winter Diary''), Juan Echanove (''Madregilda''), Luis Tosar (''Take My Eyes''), Juan José Ballesta ('' 7 Virgins''), Juan Diego ('Go Away from Me''), José Sacristán (''The Dead Man and Being Happy''), Javier Gutiérrez (''Marshland''), Ricardo Darín ('' Truman'') and Eduard Fernández ('' Smoke & Mirrors'') received the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Juan Luis Galiardo (''Goodbye from the Heart''), Javier Cámara (''Torremolinos 73'', ''Chef's Special'') and Alberto San Juan ('' Under the Stars'') received the Best Actor award at the Málaga Film Festival, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Leonardo Máximo Sbaraglia (; born 30 June 1970) is an Argentine actor, with extensive credits in both Argentina and Spain. He has also worked in Mexico, and was cast in his first English-language role in '' Red Lights''. Biography Sbaraglia was born in Buenos Aires. His mother, Roxana Randon, is a local actress and theater coach. He started his acting career at the age of 16 in '' La Noche de los lápices'' (''Night of the Pencils''), a political documentary drama directed by Héctor Olivera.Interview in the Spanish TV show ''Caiga Quien Caiga'', broadcast 2 December 2005. In 1987, he gained popularity among Argentine youth for his role in the TV series ''Clave de sol''. In the following years, he starred in TV and film productions as well as in the theater (e.g., in ''La Soledad de los Campos de Algodon'', ''Closer''). In 1993, he worked for the first time together with Argentine director Marcelo Piñeyro in '' Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito''. They came together again fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Torres (singer)
Diego Antonio Caccia (born 9 March 1971 in Buenos Aires), known as Diego Torres, is an Argentine two Grammy Award-nominated pop singer, songwriter, composer, musician and actor (of films, theater and television). He is the son of the legendary Argentine artist Lolita Torres (1930–2002). Early life Diego Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's the son of popular argentine singer and actress Lolita Torres. Career In 1989, Torres' music career began with a band called ''"La Marca."'' Later, he began his first steps on TV starring in the successful TV series ''"La Banda del Golden Rocket"'' which stayed on air for three years. He loves soccer. Torres has won 3 awards along with 17 nominations for the Latin Grammys. In 1992 he launched his first album, ''"Diego Torres,"'' produced by Cachorro López. This album was rewarded 3 times platinum. Two years later, and a little distant from TV, he launched his second album called ''"Tratar de estar mejor"'' which received 5 pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Suar
Adrián Kirzner Schwartz (born March 25, 1968), better known as Adrián Suar, is an Argentine actor, media producer and businessman who is the program director of Canal 13. Early life Adrián Suar born in Queens, New York City, on March 25, 1968. His father was Leibele Schwartz. When he was two, Suar moved to Argentina with his family. When he was 13, Suar auditioned for a casting for Channel 9 and obtained his first role in an episode of a television series called ''El Ciclo de Guillermo Bredeston y Nora Cárpena''. He landed his first major role in 1982 as Adrián in a television series called ''Pelito'', a popular series on Channel 13. Career Suar started working in the TV series ''Pelito'' at the early age of 13. He then worked in other TV shows such as ''La Banda del Golden Rocket'', ''Poliladron'', ''Por el Nombre de Dios'', ''22, El Loco'', and ''Sin código'', and for films such as ''Comodines'', ''Cohen vs Rossi'', ''Apariencias'', ''El hijo de la novia'', ''El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Odd Couple (play)
''The Odd Couple'' is a Play (theatre), play by Neil Simon. Following its premiere on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful The Odd Couple (film), 1968 film and The Odd Couple (1970 TV series), 1970s television series, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the neat, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison. Simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates (Florence Ungar and Olive Madison) in ''The Female Odd Couple''. An updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with the title ''Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple''. History Sources vary as to the origins of the play. In ''The Washington Post''s obituary of Simon's brother Danny Simon, Danny, a television writer, Adam Bernstein wrote that the idea for the play came from his divorce. "Mr. Simon had moved in with a newly single theatrical agent named Roy Gerber in Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Brandoni
Adalberto Luis Brandoni (born 18 April 1940) is an Argentine actor and politician. Biography Brandoni was born in Dock Sud, a port community east of Avellaneda. He debuted on the stage in 1962, television in 1963, and on film in 1966. He joined the National Comedy Theater in 1964 under the direction of Luisa Vehil. Politically active in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) party, he also served as cultural policy adviser for President Raúl Alfonsín (1983–89), and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1993, where he served until 2001. He was an unsuccessful Argentine Senate candidate for the UCR in 2005, and for Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province, with nominee Ricardo Alfonsín, in 2007. An actor with extensive film, television and theatre credits, he portrayed leading roles in acclaimed pictures such as '' La tregua'' (1974), ''Juan que reía'' (1976), '' Darse cuenta'' (1984), ''Esperando la carroza'' (1985), ''Made in Argentina'' (1986), ''Cien veces n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grecia Colmenares
Grecia Dolores Colmenares Mieussens (born December 7, 1962 in Valencia, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actress. Biography Grecia Dolores Colmenares Mieussens was born on December 7, 1962, in Valencia, Venezuela. She is the daughter of a Venezuelan father and a French mother. She pursued her education at school Lisandro Ramírez and at the Liceo Malpica. She studied theater with the director and playwright Miguel Torrence. Personal life In 1978, she met Henry Zakka on recordings of ''Drama de amor en el Bloque 6''. In 1979, when Grecia was 17 years old, she married the actor, Henry Zakka. The couple divorced in 1983. In 1986, a few months after arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she met the Argentine businessman Marcelo Pelegri. In 1986, she married Marcelo Pelegri. On September 4, 1992, she gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy, whom they called Gianfranco Pelegri Colmenares, who was born in the Clínica Maternidad Suizo Argentina. The couple divorced in 2005. Grec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebelde (1989 Telenovela)
''Rebelde'' (English: ''Rebel'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa, broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas (now known simply as Las Estrellas). It is a remake of the Argentine telenovela, ''Rebelde Way'', adapted for the Mexican youth audience, leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. ''Rebelde'' originally aired from Monday, 4 October 2004, to Friday, 2 June 2006. It was replaced with ''Código Postal''. ''Rebelde'' is set in the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding school on the outskirts of Mexico City, with a major plot line revolving around six adolescent students – Mía Colucci Cáceres (Anahí), Roberta Pardo Rey (Dulce María), Miguel Arango Cervera (Alfonso Herrera), Diego Bustamante (Christopher von Uckermann), Guadalupe "Lupita" Fernández (Maite Perroni) and Giovanni Méndez López (Christian Chávez) – forming a band. Additional subplots involve the school's faculty and the students' parents. One trademark of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Del Boca
Andrea del Boca (born 18 October 1965, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress and subsequently became popular in the 1980s and 1990s for her roles in telenovelas, such as ''Estrellita mía'', '' Celeste'', ''Antonella'' and ''Perla negra''. She has also appeared in numerous films and several theatre productions. Del Boca has won three Martín Fierro Awards. Career Del Boca made her debut as a four-year-old in the TV series ''Nuestra galleguita'' where she played a deaf-mute girl. In 1970, she started to play in the series ''Alta comedia'' and won the prestigious Martín Fierro Award for 1971 in the ''Revelación'' category, an equivalent of the Best New Artist. In 1972, she appeared in her first film, ''Había una vez un circo'', alongside a trio of popular clowns called Los Payasos de la Tele. She achieved a wide popularity in Argentina at the age of seven when she played the part of a little orphan Pinina in ''Papá corazó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Migré
Alberto Migré, pseudonym of "Felipe Alberto Milletari Miagro" (12 September 1931, Buenos Aires – 10 March 2006) was an Argentina, Argentine television, TV screenwriter and producer, specialized on telenovelas. Family background Alberto was born in the barrio of Almagro, Buenos Aires, Almagro, Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ..., under the name of Felipe Alberto Milletari Miagro; the son of Piedmontese immigrants, his father Don Milletari was arriving from Italy when he met the daughter of another piemontes family the Miagro, whom were living in the Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba Province of Argentina after arriving from Italy via Brazil. His upbringing was enriched by the entrepreneurial spirit of his father and the intellectual influence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Argentina
Television is one of the major mass media of Argentina. As of 2019, household ownership of television sets in the country is 99%, with the majority of households usually having two sets. Cable television has become the most used type of delivering, with 73.2% of households having a cable provider. Argentine television broadcasting officially began on October 17, 1951, with the inaugural of the state-owned ''Canal 7'' (now ''Televisión Pública''). It remains as the network with the biggest national coverage, while private broadcasting networks have a big number of affiliates in different cities through all the country. Argentina also became the fourth most important country in terms of export of television formats, only surpassed by the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Argentina's broadcast television system includes PAL-N for analog television and ISDB-T for digital television. Half of television sets in Argentina still remain with analog services. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
