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Carlos López Hipólito (born 1956), better known as Carlos Hipólito, is a Spanish actor with a long stage career. He is perhaps most familiar to a television audience for performances in series such as '' Desaparecida'', '' Guante blanco'', ''Locked Up'' or '' Caronte'', even though his most enduring television collaboration is his long-lasting voice work as old Carlos Alcántara in ''
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Biography

Carlol López Hipólito was born in 1956 in
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. He started studies in architecture but he dropped off. A theater buff since childhood due to his mother's influence, he trained his acting chops at the William Layton lab. He started his acting career in stage plays, making his professional debut in 1978. Some of his stage performances include roles in ''
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''; ', '' Todos eran mis hijos'', ''
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''; ''
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'', ''El misántropo'', '' El médico de su honra'', ''Las comedias bárbaras'', '' Historia de un caballo'', ''El burlador de Sevilla'' and ''Dakota''. Hipólito has been a recurring face in
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's feature films, including '' You're the One'' (2000), '' Story of a Kiss'' (2002), '' Tiovivo c. 1950'' (2004), '' Ninette'' (2005), '' Sangre de mayo'' (2008) or '' Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days'' (2012). In 2003, he was nominated to the Goya Award for his supporting performance in ''Story of a Kiss''. Hipólito has performed the
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of Carlos Alcántara in ''
Cuéntame cómo pasó ' (), usually shortened to ''Cuéntame'' and also known in English as ''Remember When'', is a Spanish prime-time television historical drama series that originally ran on La 1 (Spanish TV channel), La 1 of Televisión Española for twenty-three ...
'' since the beginning of the series in 2001. Many seasons after, he made an onscreen performance in ''Cuéntames 21st season (released in 2021), when the timeline of the series made a leap-forward to COVID-19-struck Spain. In 2020, he was awarded the
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Personal life

He got married with Mapi Sagaseta, a Spanish actress, and they got a daughter in 2002, Elisa Hipólito, also an actress.


Filmography

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Accolades


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