Ricardo Luis Amigorena (born May 30, 1972 in Maipú,

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), better known as Mike Amigorena is an

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actor.

Biography

He was born in Maipú,

to a

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father and an

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mother.''Clarín''. Mike Amigorena: "Estoy enchastrado de felicidad"
/ref> Amigorena was especially restless as an adolescent and was expelled from a number of secondary schools. He left Maipú for

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in search of fame in 1992, and initially struggled in a variety of menial jobs, living hand-to-mouth in a tenement for a number of years.

Personal life

Since May 2018 he is in a relationship with the singer Sofía Vitola. On February 4, 2020 they became parents for the first time of a girl whom they called Miel Amigorena Vitola.

Career

He was eventually discovered by a

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and in 1992, was given a small role in leading local comic

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, ''La familia Benvenuto''. He later appeared in the popular

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, ''Montaña rusa'' ("Rollercoaster"), and in the mid-1990s, enrolled in a theatre school, mentored first by Santiago Doria, and later, Alfredo Zemma, of the Argentine Actors' Association. He first appeared in Buenos Aires' vibrant

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scene in 1995 and became a prolific stage actor, notably in a 1998 local production of

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playwright

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's '' Spring Awakening'', and in a compressed

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production from 2004 to 2006, which earned him Argentine ACE and Clarín Awards.''Alternativa Teatral'': El Niño en cuestión
/ref> He was given his first film role by directors Florencia Di Baja and Germán Drexler, as the leading man in their comedy, ''Tus ojos brillaban'' (''Bright Eyes''), in 2004, and was reunited with Francella in 2005 in his top-rated sitcom, '' Casados con hijos'' ("Married with Children"). Two comedy film roles, in Gabriel Condrón's ''Un peso, un dólar'' (2006) and as the lead in Tatiana Merenuk's

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, ''Yo soy sola'' (''I'm Alone'', 2008), were followed by his role as Martín Pells in the primetime

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sitcom, '' Los exitosos Pells'', which premiered in May 2008 and for which he received a

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. Amigorena was among the Argentine actors asked to appear in

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's production set in Buenos Aires, ''

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'' (2009). He had a band called "Ambulancia" with his friends and he was the lead vocalist in his

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, they did covers and their own songs. In 2015 the band dissolved.

Filmography

Television

Theater

Movies

Awards

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amigorena, Mike 1972 births Living people Argentine television personalities Argentine male actors 21st-century Argentine male singers People from Maipú, Argentina Argentine people of Basque descent