Bastián Lorenzo Bodenhöfer Alexander (
Santiago
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, July 1, 1961) is a Chilean actor, theater director, musician and cultural manager. He served as cultural attaché of the Chile embassy in France between 2000 and 2002, during the government of president
Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military di ...
. Bodenhöfer established himself as a renowned actor in the ''telenovela''
''Ángel Malo'' in 1986. During the 1990s, due to his physical attractiveness, his solid presence and his talent, he became the highest paid male lead in
Televisión Nacional de Chile
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.
Personal life
He is the son of the
German-Chilean Jew composer
Leni Alexander. He also studied in the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...
where he developed as a saxophone and clarinet player. His brother, Andreas, is also a composer and his niece
Miranda Bodenhöfer an actress and dancer. Bodenhöfer was married to
Consuelo Holzapfel (1983–1991) with whom he had two children;
Damián Bodenhöfer and
Maira Bodenhöfer, both actors. He also was married to
Aline Küppenheim (2000–2006) and had a son called Ian Bodenhöfer.
Filmography
TV shows
Telenovelas
TV series
References
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1961 births
Chilean male television actors
Chilean male film actors
Chilean television personalities
Chilean people of German-Jewish descent
Chilean Jews
Living people
Male actors from Santiago, Chile
20th-century Chilean male actors
21st-century Chilean male actors
Cultural attachés
20th-century Chilean Jews
21st-century Chilean Jews