Braulio Castillo Jr. (born August 30, 1958) is a Puerto Rican actor and radio host. He is the son of
Braulio Castillo
Braulio Castillo Cintrón (March 30, 1933 – February 28, 2015) was a telenovela actor in Latin America. His two sons, Braulio Castillo, Jr. and Jorge Castillo, are also actors. He was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Castillo played in the ''O ...
, an actor across Latin America, and the brother of the lesser known Jorge Castillo, also a television and theater actor.
Biography
For a short time during the 1970s, he was first known in
Puerto Rico
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doing newsbreaks for WKBM-TV Channel 11 in
Caguas
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, now
Univision
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O&O WLII
WLII-DT (channel 11), branded on-air as TeleOnce, is a television station licensed to Caguas, Puerto Rico, serving the Territories of the United States#Permanently inhabited territories, U.S. territory as an affiliate of Univision and UniMás. ...
.
Castillo reached national fame in Puerto Rico when he participated in the 1984
Spanish soap opera ''
Coralito
Coralito (Little coral), is a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican telenovela produced by Telemundo. The main characters were played by Sully Diaz, Sully Díaz and Salvador Pineda. Díaz played the character of Coralito. The telenovela played in 1984. Ednita ...
'' at
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
-based
WKAQ-TV
WKAQ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, airing programming from the Telemundo and NBC networks. It is Owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal. WKAQ-T ...
Channel 2. There, he shared star billing with
Mexican
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** People
*** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants
*** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...
actor
Salvador Pineda
Salvador Pineda Popoca (born June 16, 1952 in Huetamo, Michoacan, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, who has participated in over 20 Mexican telenovelas and Mexican movies, as well as two Hollywood low budget movies. Born to Mexican politician Salvador ...
and with Puerto Rican actress
Sully Diaz
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** ''Sully'' (film), a 2016 film by Clint Eastwood about Sullenberger
Places France
* Sully, Calvados, commun ...
. Afterwards, Castillo reached teen idol status across Puerto Rico. In 1985, he was one of the stars of the successful telenovela''
Tanairi'', alongside actress
Von Marie Mendez
Von Marie Mendez (born September 8, 1950) is a Puerto Rican actress and restaurateur. Alongside such others as Iris Chacon, Millie Aviles, Sully Diaz, Giselle Blondet, Ivonne Goderich, Marilyn Pupo and others, she is remembered as one of the le ...
. That year (1985), Castillo was hired to co-host a game show named ''Adelante Juventud'' (''Come on, Youth'') alongside
Myraida Chaves. He also starred in three telenovelas alongside fellow Puerto Rican actress
Millie Aviles
Milagros "Millie" Aviles (alternatively known as Milly Aviles; born November 20, 1964, in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer. She is better known as a telenovela actress from the golden era of telenovelas in Puerto Rico, wh ...
.
Castillo subsequently acted on numerous telenovelas in
Mexico
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,
Peru
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and
Venezuela
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.
In the 1990s he starred in the
sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...
,''Tres Hombres y...'', inspired by the movie ''
Three Men and a Baby
''Three Men and a Baby'' is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy. It stars Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson as three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to de facto fatherhood with the arrival of the love ...
'', alongside
Raymond Arrieta
Raymond Arrieta (born March 26, 1965) is a Puerto Rican actor, comedian, host and philanthropist. Starting his career as a comedian in various local shows, Arrieta gained popularity in the 1990s when he hosted a string of successful comedy shows ...
and
Alba Nydia Díaz
Alba Nydia Díaz (born April 27, 1955) is a Puerto Rican actress who has worked in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Early years
Díaz was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Although the roles she portrayed in her early days and years after were not leading rol ...
on the WKAQ-TV Telemundo de Puerto Rico network. Castillo also was the leading man of the
telenovela
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''Karina Montaner'', opposite
Giselle Blondet
Alba Giselle Blondet Gomez (born January 9, 1964) is a Puerto Rican actress and TV host. She also founded the non-profit organization "Fundación Arte por La Paz".
Early biography
Giselle Blondet was born Alba Giselle Blondet, in 1964, to Victo ...
, broadcast by
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV (channel 4) is a Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-language Independent station (North America), independent television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is owned by :es:Hemisphere Media Group, Hemisphere Media Group, w ...
Channel 4 in San Juan. For several years, Braulio starred in various
soap operas
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in
Colombia
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.
In 2003, Castillo starred in the film ''
Los Diaz de Doris'', alongside
Cordelia Gonzalez and
Velda González
Velda González de Modestti (April 10, 1933 – April 20, 2016) was a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, comedian, politician and former senator. She was a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1981 to 2005.
Early years and studies
Velda Gonzále ...
,
Kidany Lugo and former
Major League Baseball
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player
Cirilo Cruz.
In 2006, he performed the role of Zacks in the musical ''
A Chorus Line
''A Chorus Line'' is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.
Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers ...
'', at the
Caguas Performing Arts Center, alongside
Marian Pabón
Marian Pabón (born c. 1958 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actress. She also had some success as a singer and recording artist.
Biography
Pabón grew used to life in the spotlight: her father, Mario Pabón (San Pedro de Macorís, ...
and
Daniela Droz
Daniela Droz (born August 16, 1977) is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and television host.
Early years
Daniela esenia Droz Serranostarted her acting career during childhood. Her stage debut took place in 1987, at age 10, in the San Juan produ ...
, among others. Castillo was acknowledged not only for his acting, but for his phenomenal attributes as a stage dancer.
Starting in 2007, he co-hosted a daily radio morning
talk show
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alongside
Mirayda Chaves while keeping on performing in numerous theatre productions in San Juan.
Also in 2007, Castillo performed the leading role in director
Jacobo Morales
Jacobo Morales (born 12 November 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and auteur.Ángel
Angel is a given name meaning "angel", " messenger". In the English-speaking world Angel is used for both boys and girls.
From the medieval Latin masculine name ''Angelus'', which was derived from the name of the heavenly creature (itself derived ...
''.
In 2011 he starred in the Puerto Rican premiere of
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays '' 'Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 bla ...
's play
God of Carnage
''God of Carnage'' (originally in French ''Le Dieu du carnage'') is a play by Yasmina Reza that was first published in 2008. It is about two sets of parents; the son of one couple has hurt the son of the other couple at a public park. The paren ...
at the
Tapia Theatre in San Juan.
He starred in the Puerto Rican production of Jerry Herman's La Cage Aux Folles as Georges, opening in August 2013 at the Luis A Ferré Performing Arts Center in San Juan.
Early in 2014, Castillo revealed that he had battled
prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that sur ...
in 2011.
On early October 2020, he revealed that he had gone through an emotional crisis, due to a personal situation as well as the uncertainty of the pandemic, which lead for him to seek help at the hospital for depression symptoms.
Acting career
See also
*
List of Puerto Ricans
References
External links
*
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110722161927/http://www.telemundopr.com/portal/contenidonovela/personajes/8074
1958 births
Living people
People from Santurce, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican comedians
Puerto Rican male stage actors
Puerto Rican male television actors
Puerto Rican male telenovela actors
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