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Jorge Facundo Arana Tagle (born March 31, 1972) is an Argentine
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and musician. He is the winner of various awards for television and theater in Argentina. Arana is also noted for his charity work.


Biography

Facundo Arana was born in
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,
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. He is the son of Dr. Jorge Arana Tagle, lawyer specializing in Maritime Law, and Mathilde von Bernard, athlete and former hockey player. He studied at the St Catherine´s Moorlands de Pilar school. At 17 he was diagnosed with cancer called Hodgkin's disease, a malignancy of the lymphoid tissue that is located in the lymph nodes, spleen, liver and bone marrow. He spends 11 months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and five years of controls when he was finally declared cancer-free. In November 2010, Facundo Arana summited at Aconcagua intending to raise awareness about blood donation and placed a flag on top of the “coloso de América” in commemoration of the 96th anniversary of the first blood transfusion in the country. In 2012 Facundo Arana came to try to climb Everest: 8,848 meters above sea level, in the middle of the Himalayas, to raise public awareness about the importance of solidarity and donating blood. During his journey, he was evacuated urgently for a respiratory problem and had to abandon the ascent to Everest. On May 23, 2016, at 11.50 local time of Nepal, he summited on Mount Everest.


Personal life

He had a relationship with the actress
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for ten years. Since 2007, he has a relationship with the model, María Susini with whom he has three children, India Arana Tagle, Yaco Arana Tagle and León Moro Arana Tagle. They got married on December 20, 2012.


Career


1990s

Facundo Arana started on Canal 9 in ''Alta comedia'', ''Marco, el candidato'', ''La hermana mayor'' and ''El Rafa''. In 1997 his first important work would arrive, playing Alejo Méndez Ayala in the hit children's series of
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'' Chiquititas'', in his first year of participation, he played the villain of the series and, the following year, in 1998, he became the heartthrob of the series, falling in love with the protagonist, played by
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. At the end of 1998 and during 1999 he participated in '' Muñeca Brava''. Some of these series were successes not only in Argentina but also in countries like
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,
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and much of
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so that Facundo Arana gained international fame. In
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he received the ''Viva!'' Award for Best Actor.


Decade of 2000

In 2000 he was the co-star of the comedy ''Buenos vecinos'', where he acted alongside
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,
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and Malena Solda. In 2001 he made his film debut starring alongside
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, '' Chiquititas: Rincón de luz'', a film of the successful children's saga that had them as protagonists. He also participates in the film ''La fuga''. His next protagonist was in the soap opera ''Yago, pasión morena'' with
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in the afternoon of
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, for which he obtained his first
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for Best Leading Telenovela Actor. Under the production of
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, he stars in 2002 soap opera ''099 Central'', next to
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on the screen of Canal 13. He was awarded a second time with the
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for Best Telenovela Actor. In 2004 he starred again with
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, marking the return of one of the most successful television duo. The soap opera ''
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'', with production of
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, on the screen of Canal 13. He receives his third
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for Best Actor. He also received the award for Best Actor in the Festival y Mercado de la Telenovela Iberoamericana. In 2005 he starred in theater, along with
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, the play ''Visitando al Sr. Green''. For his work, he obtained the ACE Award and Florencio Sánchez Award as Theater Revelation. In 2006 he starred a new soap opera by
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, ''
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''The fiction became the most-watched of the year 2006 in Argentina and was transmitted internationally by different chains, having great success in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Together with
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and China Zorrilla, he stars in the film ''
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''. Between 2007 and 2008 he starred in the play ''Codicia''. In 2008 he signed a contract with
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to star in the soap opera '' Vidas robadas''. Fiction was highly praised for dealing with topics such as the
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.


2010s

In 2010 he returns to the cinema starring in the independent film ''El agua del fin del mundo''. In 2011 he returns to the small screen, starring alongside
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at the
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producer of Gustavo Yankelevich. In it he interprets the character of Gastón Armando Murfi. That year he made a documentary titled ''Donar sangre salva vidas'', issued by Canal Encuentro. Go back to the theater in the summer of 2012 and 2013, starring in Mar Del Plata the work ''En el aire''. From 2013 to 2014 he was one of the protagonists of the series ''
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'', alongside
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,
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and
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. At the end of 2014, and until mid-2015 he starred alongside
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the soap opera ''
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'', by Canal 13. In 2016 he returns to the theater with the play ''En el aire'', filled the room of Tabarís and it was months in billboard. In September he gave a recital in
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with his band ''Facundo Arana & The Blue Light Orquestra'', presented his second album "EN EL AIRE". In 2017 he made presentations in several provinces with ''En el aire'', in the middle of the year he premiered in theater ''Los Puentes de Madison'' at
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with
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, which in 2018 led to Mar del Plata. During that year he debuted as a singer with his solo album ''Salir a tocar'' with jazz and blues rhythms. The first single from the album was the cover of
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's " Stand by Me".


Solidarity work

The last years Facundo Arana has devoted his life and most of his work to solidarity causes. Being appointed as Ambassador of the Fundaleu foundation he participates in all of its campaigns, while he has been the face or participated in several other foundation's campaigns such as
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. He is the founder of "Donar Sangre Salva Vidas" campaign for which he has filmed two documentaries and supports it consecutively. He also has moved his acting career towards this target, with Vidas robadas and Poder se puede with which he traveled in the most isolated parts of Argentina. In 2012 he became the "Godfather" of the first university for indigenous students of Abra Pampa in
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.


Filmography


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Theater


Movies


Television Programs


Discography


Awards and nominations


See also

*
List of Argentines Argentines who are notable include: Artists *Roberto Aizenberg, painter and sculptor * Oscar Alemán, jazz guitarist *Antonio Alice, portrait painter *Marcelo Álvarez, tenor *Martha Argerich, concert pianist *Daniel Barenboim, pianist and cond ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arana, Facundo 1972 births Argentine male film actors Argentine male stage actors Argentine male telenovela actors Living people Male actors from Buenos Aires Argentine people of Spanish descent Argentine people of Basque descent Argentine people of German descent People from Buenos Aires