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Juan José Campanella
Juan José Campanella (born 19 July 1959) is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' (2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Campanella was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started studying engineering, but dropped out in 1980 after four years at university. He would later remark that the decisive factor for this decision was watching '' All That Jazz'' on the very day he was going to apply for a fifth year. His debut as director was in 1979, with the short ''Prioridad nacional''. Campanella traveled to the United States and entered the Tisch School of the Arts. Four years later, in 1984, his second film, '' Victoria 392'', which marked the first of five collaborations with actor friend Eduardo Blanco, as well as his first collaboration with screenwriter Fernando Castets, with whom he co-directed and co-wrote the film. ...
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ...
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Criminal Intent
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Christopher Meloni
Christopher Peter Meloni (; born April 2, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for portraying NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama series '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (1999–2011, 2021–present) and its spin-off ''Organized Crime'' (2021–present), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He also played Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama '' Oz'' (1998–2003), and starred in and executive produced the Syfy series '' Happy!'' (2017–2019). Meloni's film credits include ''12 Monkeys'' (1995), ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1998), '' Runaway Bride'' (1999), ''Wet Hot American Summer'' (2001), '' Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'' (2004), '' Green Lantern: First Flight'' (2009), '' 42'' (2013) and ''Man of Steel'' (2013). Early life and education Meloni was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of three children of Cecile (née Chagnon; 1926–2016), a homemaker, and Charles Robert Meloni (1927–2012), an endocrinologist. H ...
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Rodrigo De La Serna
Lionel Rodrigo de la Serna (; born 18 April 1976) is an Argentine actor. He is known for playing Alberto Granado in the 2004 biopic '' The Motorcycle Diaries'' and Palermo in the Netflix series '' Money Heist''. Career De la Serna started his career in several smaller productions like '' Same Love, Same Rain'' and '' Nuts for Love''. In 2000, he portrayed Ricardo Riganti in the Canal 7 series '' Okupas'', now considered an Argentine cult classic. In 2004 starred in the biopic ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' for which he won a Silver Condor award for best actor, an Independent Spirit Award for "Best Debut Performance" and earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played the role of Alberto Granado, the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their 8-month long journey through South America. Over the years he has starred in several Argentine television series such as ''El Puntero'', ''Tiempos Compulsivos'', ''Sol Negro'' and '' Contra las cu ...
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Valeria Bertuccelli
Mónica Valeria Bertuccelli (born 30 November 1969) is an Argentine actress, director and writer. Born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, she began her career in experimental theatre, and later worked in the San Martín and Cervantes theatres. She was first cast in the cinema of Argentina by director Mariano Galperin, and received a Silver Condor Award for her role in Daniel Barone's '' Alma mía'' (2000). She won another Silver Condor for her leading role in Diego Lerman's ''Mientras tanto'', in 2007. Her husband, Vicentico, is co-founder and lead vocalist of the Argentine rock group Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. They have two sons together, Florián and Vicente. Filmography * ''1000 Boomerangs'' (1995) * '' Alma mía'' (1999) * ''Silvia Prieto'' (1999) a.k.a. ''Silvia Prieto'' * ''Los Guantes mágicos'' (2003) a.k.a. '' The Magic Gloves'' * ''Extraño'' (2003) a.k.a. ''Strange'' * ''Boca de fresa'' (2003) * ''Próxima salida'' (2004) * '' Luna de ...
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Mercedes Morán
Mercedes Beatriz Morán (; born 1955) is an Argentine actress, known for her role in the television miniseries '' Culpables''. Early life and career Morán was born in Concarán, San Luis Province in 1955. Her mother was an "ultra-Catholic" rural teacher. She took three years of a degree in sociology, but dropped out during the last civil-military dictatorship, joining an acting workshop along with Lito Cruz. Morán has worked in several TV programs, such as ''Donde pueda quererte'', ''Rosa de lejos'', ''Por siempre amigos'', ''Gasoleros'', '' Culpables'', '' Tiempo final'', ''Mujeres asesinas'', '' Amas de casa desesperadas'', ''El hombre de tu vida'', ''En terapia'' and ''La celebración''. She worked on stage in plays such as '' El efecto de los rayos gamma'', ''Locos de contentos'', ''Humores que matan'', '' Monólogos de la vagina'', ''Pequeños crímenes conyugales'', ''Agosto'', ''Buena gente'' and ''La brisa de la vida''. She worked in films such as ''Mirha de Liniers ...
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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 Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ..., 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 t ...
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Natalia Verbeke
Natalia Carolina Verbeke Leiva (born 23 February 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish actress. She gained notoriety for her performance in '' The Other Side of the Bed''. Biography Natalia Verbeke was born on 23 February 1975 in Buenos Aires. At age 11, she moved to Madrid to join her parents, Argentine emigrants to Spain. She completed her secondary education at the Beatriz Galindo high school in the Madrilenian district of Salamanca. She trained her acting chops at Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (RESAD) and at Escuela Guindalera under . Verbeke made her debut performance in a feature film in '' Un buen novio'' (1998), in which she starred alongside Fernando Guillén Cuervo. It was followed by roles in films such as ''Nobody Knows Anybody'', ''Son of the Bride'', and '' The Other Side of the Bed'', the latter of which earned Verbeke wide popularity. She received two Ondas Awards for the latter two films. In 2005, she starred as María in '' By Force''. In 2011 she featu ...
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Ulises Dumont
Ulises Dumont (April 7, 1937 – November 29, 2008) was a prolific Argentine film actor, credited with over 80 appearances in film and countless others in theatre and television from 1964 until his death in 2008. Life and work Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Dumont first worked in Bunge y Born, Argentina's largest grain wholesaler and one of the principal grain conglomerates in the World. Later that year (1956), he made his first appearance on the stage, developing an affinity for the art that, for economic reasons, he postponed pursuing for several more years. After a modest career in sales, Dumont was given his first film role, a bit part in a 1964 comedy. The otherwise forgettable experience opened doors for him in Buenos Aires' vibrant theatre scene, and he returned to film only in 1971. Eschewing classical theatre, he contributed mostly to locally-written productions, soon becoming a fixture in works by noted Argentine dramatists such as Villanueva Cosse, Carlos Gorostiza ...
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Alfredo Alcón
Alfredo Félix Alcón (; 3 March 1930 – 11 April 2014) was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century. He worked in more than 50 movies since his first one, '' El amor nunca muere'' (''Love Never Dies''), in 1955, and received many recognitions for his work: among others, the Silver Condor, the Martin Fierro Award and the 1981 Diamond Konex Award. He died on April 11, 2014, at the age of 84. Biography Alfredo Alcón was born on March 3, 1930, in Liniers. His family has Spanish ancestry: his paternal grandmother immigrated from Cádiz, and his mother from Castile. As a result, he had a fluent Spanish accent, which helped him when he worked in Spain. His father died soon after his birth, and so the family moved to Ciudadela, Buenos Aires. One of his early influences was ''Richard III'' by William Shakespeare, which he read at the age of 11. He began working as a rad ...
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Norma Aleandro
Norma Aleandro (born 2 May 1936) is an Argentine actress. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentine actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in her home country. Aleandro starred in the 1985 film '' The Official Story'', a role that earned her the Cannes Award for best actress. She has performed in other successful films like '' The Truce'' (1974), '' Cousins'' (1989), '' Autumn Sun'' (1996), '' The Lighthouse'' (1998), ''Son of the Bride'' (2001) and '' Cama Adentro'' (2005). For her performance as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 film '' Gaby: A True Story'', she received a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Aleandro wrote the 1970 film ''The Inheritors'' and performed in various plays such as '' August: Osage County''. Aleandro also appeared in the Argentine adaptation of '' BeTipul'', the critically successful '' En terapia''. Life and career Aleandro was born in Buenos ...
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Héctor Alterio
Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born 21 September 1929) is an Argentine theatre, film and television actor, well known both in Argentina and Spain. Biography Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato was born in Chacarita, Buenos Aires, Chacarita, Buenos Aires on 21 September 1929, to parents from Carpinone, Italy. Alterio's acting debut came in 1948 in stage play ''Cómo suicidarse en primavera'' ('How to commit suicide in spring'). After finishing drama school, he created the ''Nuevo Teatro'' ("New Theatre") company in 1950, where he worked until 1968 and helped change the Argentine theatrical scene of the 1960s. He also worked in the Argentine cinema. His debut on the silver screen took place in Alfredo Mathé's ' (''Every sun is bitter'') in 1965. He then participated in many of the most important Argentine movies of the 1970s, including ''Rebellion in Patagonia, La Patagonia rebelde'' (''The Rebel Patagonia''), which was awarded a Silver Bear at the 24th Berlin International F ...
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