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Álvaro Morte
Álvaro Antonio García Pérez (born 23 February 1975), known professionally as Álvaro Morte, is a Spanish actor. He gained worldwide recognition for playing the role of ' The Professor' in the television series '' Money Heist''. Morte briefly played Logain Ablar, in the Amazon Prime Video's high fantasy series, ''The Wheel of Time'' (2021–25) Early life Álvaro Antonio García Pérez was born on 23 February 1975 in Algeciras, province of Cádiz, soon relocating to Bujalance, province of Córdoba, with his family. Originally enrolled into a degree of communications engineering, he switched to dramatic art, graduating from the ''Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba'' in 1999. He also took post-graduate studies for two months at the University of Tampere. After his time in Finland, he settled in Madrid. At the age of 33, he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in the left thigh, which he ultimately overcame. Career Morte began his acting career when he playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
34th Goya Awards
The 34th Goya Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACCE), honored the best in Spanish films of 2019 and took place at the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Málaga on 25 January 2020. The ceremony was televised in Spain by Televisión Española (TVE) and was hosted for the second consecutive year by television presenter and comedian Andreu Buenafuente and actress Silvia Abril. It was also televised for the international public by the TVE Internacional channel. It was the third overall time and the second consecutive year that the ceremony was held outside of Madrid: previously the 14th edition and the 33rd edition had taken place in Barcelona and Seville respectively. It was also the second consecutive year that the ceremony takes place in Andalusia. Nominations were announced on 2 December 2019 by Elena Anaya and Miguel Herrán. '' While at War'' received the most nominations with seventeen, followed by ''Pain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divinity (TV Channel)
Divinity is a Commercial broadcasting, private Spanish television channel owned by Mediaset España, whose programming is aimed to target women. Divinity began test broadcasts on 1 March 2011 before fully launching on 1 April 2011. LaNueve project With the expansion of the number of channels in 2010, before the merger of Telecinco and Cuatro (TV channel), Cuatro, Telecinco was considering launching a free channel dedicated to women. The channel would have been launched on 1 September 2010 as "LaNueve" (The Nine) corresponding to its logical channel number on digital terrestrial television. Its programming would have included: current affairs, entertainment, fiction series and informative spaces for women. A month after the announcement, Telecinco announced that the project was dropped and replaced by a children's channel, Boing (Spain), Boing. The project was finally resumed and La Nueve started broadcasting on 2 January 2013. The programmes are mainly repeats of series previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tercera
(), formerly known as (), is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is s closest competitor. is part of Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos ( Latin American Newspaper Association), an organization of fourteen leading newspapers in South America. History The newspaper ''La Tercera'' was founded on July 7, 1950, by the Picó Cañas family. Initially known as ''La Tercera de la Hora'', it served as the evening edition of the now defunct newspaper ''La Hora''. In the 1950s, it transitioned from being associated with ''La Hora'' and transformed into a morning paper. While initially affiliated with the Radical Party, ''La Tercera'' ended this association in 1965, becoming more politically independent and disconnected from any party, government system, or religious affiliation. During the early 1970s, the newspaper strongly opposed Salvador Allende's government and supported the September 11 military coup in 1973, as well as General Augusto Pino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Secreto De Puente Viejo
''El secreto de Puente Viejo'' (English: ''The Secret of Puente Viejo'') was a Spanish soap opera produced by Boomerang TV that originally aired from 23 February 2011 to 20 May 2020 on Antena 3. Synopsis First season (Pepa, la partera) The story begins in 1902, with Pepa, a poor and illiterate but intelligent adolescent orphaned girl with great knowledge in herb medicine and obstetrics. Pepa had been lusted over and impregnated by her landlord Carlos Castro, giving birth to a son and then thrown out of the house and tricked into believing that her child was stillborn. She finds a shelter in Raimundo Ulloa ( Ramón Ibarra) inn where she befriends his daughter Emilia and is hired to be an obstetrician for Francisca Montenegro (María Bouzas), a wealthy landlady whose pregnant daughter-in-law Angustias is mentally unstable. Both Angustias and Francisca begin hating Pepa when Francisca's son Tristán falls in love with Pepa. Pepa holds the blame for Angustias' baby's death while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (Spain)
''ABC'' () is a Spanish national daily newspaper. Along with and , it is one of Spain's three newspapers of record. History and profile ''ABC'' was first published in Madrid on 1 January 1903 by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio. The founding publishing house was Prensa Española, which was led by the founder of the paper, Luca de Tena. The paper started as a weekly newspaper Weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspap ..., turning daily in June 1905. In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other for Seville. The latter was named ''ABC de Sevilla''. On 20 July 1936, shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, ''ABC'' in Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support the Republicans. The same year '' Blanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Flores
María Dolores "Lola" Flores Ruiz (; 21 January 1923 – 16 May 1995) was a Spanish actress, (flamenco dancer) and singer. Born in Jerez de la Frontera, Flores became interested in the performing arts at a very young age. Known for her overwhelming personality onstage, she debuted as a dancer at age sixteen at the stage production , in her hometown. After being discovered by film director Fernando Mignoni, Flores moved to Madrid to pursue a professional career in music and film, with her first gig being the lead role in Mignoni's ''Martingala'' (1940). Flores succeeded as a film and stage actress. In 1943 she obtained her breakthrough role in the musical stage production ''Zambra'' alongside Manolo Caracol, in which she sang original compositions by Rafael de León, Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel and Antonio Quintero, including "" and "", mostly singing flamenco music, copla, rumba and ranchera. She then started to receive widespread media coverage. In 1951, Flores signed a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biopic
A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives. Context Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in ''Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History'' (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study ''Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre'' shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a similar trajectory as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar En Tiempos Revueltos
''Amar en tiempos revueltos'' (Spanish for "Love in Troubled Times", or, more literally, "Loving during Turbulent Times"), is a Spanish television period soap opera that originally ran on La 1 of Televisión Española for seven seasons, from 27 September 2005 to 16 November 2012, set in the times of the Spanish civil war and Francoist Spain. It run for 1,707 episodes, 8 special episodes and 1 recap episode. The series won prizes in Spain and a silver medal in the New York Festival. Following disagreements of the producing company with Radiotelevisión Española, the fiction was relaunched in January 2013 on Antena 3 as ''Amar es para siempre''. Seasons 1936–1945 Season 1 Started: 26 September 2005 Ended: 26 June 2006 Episodes: 199 Main love story: Andrea Robles ''(Ana Turpin)'' & Antonio Ramírez ''(Rodolfo Sancho)'' Main cast: , Rodolfo Sancho, , Pilar Bardem, , Luisa Gavasa, , Félix Gómez, , , , and Francisco Algora. 1945–1948 Season 2 Started: 11 September 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandolera
''Bandolera'' is a Spanish daily television series starring Marta Hazas. Produced by Diagonal TV, it aired from January 2011 to January 2013 on Antena 3. Premise The fiction follows the adventures of Sarah Reeves ( Marta Hazas), a student of Hispanic Philology from the University of Oxford who arrives to the Andalusian village of Arazana in 1882, and involves in a love triangle, featuring brigandage, the birth of the Guardia Civil and the rise of anarchist initiatives in the countryside as some of the backdrop elements. Cast Production and release ''Bandolera'' was produced by Diagonal TV for Antena 3. The first episode of the series premiered in prime time Prime time, or peak time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ... on 10 January 2011 in order to get exposure, and it was subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diez Minutos
''Diez Minutos'' ( Spanish: ''Ten Minutes'') is a Spanish language weekly celebrity, entertainment and women's magazine published in Madrid, Spain. The magazine has been in circulation since 1951. History and profile ''Diez Minutos'' was started in 1951. It has its headquarters in Madrid. The magazine was part of Lagardère SCA and was published by Hachette Filipacchi Médias until May 2011 when it was sold to Hearst Corporation. It is published by Hearst Magazines Espana S.L. on a weekly basis and offers news on celebrities. The magazine has published similar news about Spanish politicians since 2000. Milagros Valdé is one of the former editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ... of the magazine. Circulation ''Diez Minutos'' was one of the best-selling ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
