Erick Elías Rabinovitz (born June 23, 1980) is a Mexican actor. Elías began acting with a screen debut in ''
DKDA: Sueños de juventud'' (2000), followed by roles in ''
Amigos x siempre
''Amigos x siempre'' (English title: ''Friends 4 Ever'') is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa that premiered on January 10, 2000 and ended on June 16, 2000.
Adriana Fonseca (later replaced by Lourdes Reyes) and ...
'' (2000). He became known in the reality show ''
Protagonistas de Novela
''Protagonistas...'' aka ''Protagonistas de Novela'', ''Protagonistas de la Música'', ''Protagonistas de la Fama'' is a Spanish reality television franchise. It broadcasts in Spanish speaking countries in Latin America and Latin communities ...
'' (2003), where he was the winner. He participated in projects of the American network
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with prog ...
, such as; ''Gitanas'' (2004), ''
El cuerpo del deseo
''El cuerpo del deseo'' (literally: ''The Body of Desire''), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and filmed in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his be ...
'' (2005), ''
El Zorro, la espada y la rosa
''El Zorro, la espada y la rosa'' (''The Sword and the Rose'') is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. Telemundo aired it from February 12 to July 23, 2007. This limited-run serial shows the masked crusader as a ...
'' (2007), ''
Betty en NY
''Betty en NY'' (pronounced ''Betty en New York'' or ''Nueva York''), is an American telenovela produced by Telemundo Global Studios for Telemundo based on the 1999 Colombian telenovela written by Fernando Gaitán, ''Yo soy Betty, la fea'', which ...
'' (2019) and ''
100 días para enamorarnos
''100 días para enamorarnos'' ( English: ''100 Days To Fall In Love'') is an American comedy drama television series that premiered on Telemundo on 28 April 2020, with the 30 minutes of the first episode given a special pre-release online on ...
'' (2020). He got his first starring role in the telenovela ''
Tormenta en el paraíso
''Tormenta en el paraíso'' (English: ''Storm over Paradise'') is a telenovela from Televisa produced by Juan Osorio. It premiered on November 12, 2007 on El Canal de las Estrellas and September 7, 2008 on Univision.
Plot
In 1519, a Mayan prie ...
.'' From there followed roles as protagonists in ''
Niña de mi corazón
''Niña de mi corazón'' (English title: ''A Double Identity'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa that aired on Canal de las Estrellas from March 8, 2010 to July 9, 2010. It is a remake of the Mexican telenovela '' M ...
'' (2010), ''
Ni contigo ni sin ti
''Ni contigo... ni sin ti'' (English title: ''With You, Without You'') is a Spanish-language Mexican telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa. It premiered on February 28, 2011 and ended on August 26, 2011.
Eduardo Santamarina, L ...
'' (2011), ''
Porque el amor manda'' (2013), ''
El color de la pasión'' (2014) and ''
El hotel de los secretos
''El hotel de los secretos'' is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Gómez Fernández for Televisa. It is an adaptation of the Spanish series '' Gran Hotel'' created by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira and Carlos Sedes.
The telenovela stars Ire ...
'' (2016), the first series that
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
produced for
Blim.
Early life
Elías was born in
Guadalajara,
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal ...
,
Mexico
Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...
,
son of Cecilia Rabinovitz and Ricardo Elías Pessah.
He has a brother named Alexis Elías.
He studied arts and industrial design.
In 2010 he married Karla Guindi, with whom he has two children, Penélope Elías Guindi (b. 2011) and Olivia Elías Guindi (b. 2013).
Acting career
Early career
Before dedicating himself to the performance arts, he was part of a musical group called Tierra Cero.
He made his acting debut in the 2000
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ( ...
''
DKDA: Sueños de juventud'' and ''
Amigos x siempre
''Amigos x siempre'' (English title: ''Friends 4 Ever'') is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa that premiered on January 10, 2000 and ended on June 16, 2000.
Adriana Fonseca (later replaced by Lourdes Reyes) and ...
''. He became known in the 2003 reality show ''
Protagonistas de Novela
''Protagonistas...'' aka ''Protagonistas de Novela'', ''Protagonistas de la Música'', ''Protagonistas de la Fama'' is a Spanish reality television franchise. It broadcasts in Spanish speaking countries in Latin America and Latin communities ...
'', where he turned out to be a winner.
In 2004 he auditioned to be the main villain of the telenovela produced by
Argos Comunicación
Argos Comunicación is a television and film production company owned by Epigmenio Ibarra based in Mexico City.
Profile
The company started as the telenovela-production unit for TV Azteca with '' Nada personal'' and has since then produced many ...
for
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with prog ...
''Gitanas'', where he played Jonás. After this project, he continued working for
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with prog ...
with two more telenovelas, titled ''
El cuerpo del deseo
''El cuerpo del deseo'' (literally: ''The Body of Desire''), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and filmed in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his be ...
'' and ''
El Zorro, la espada y la rosa
''El Zorro, la espada y la rosa'' (''The Sword and the Rose'') is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. Telemundo aired it from February 12 to July 23, 2007. This limited-run serial shows the masked crusader as a ...
''. In 2007 he got her first starring role with
Sara Maldonado in the telenovela ''
Tormenta en el paraíso
''Tormenta en el paraíso'' (English: ''Storm over Paradise'') is a telenovela from Televisa produced by Juan Osorio. It premiered on November 12, 2007 on El Canal de las Estrellas and September 7, 2008 on Univision.
Plot
In 1519, a Mayan prie ...
''. In 2008, he was chosen by
Carlos Moreno to participate also starring in the telenovela ''
En nombre del amor
En nombre del amor (English: ''In the Name of Love'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno Laguillo for Televisa. It is a remake of '' Cadenas de amargura'', by María del Carmen Peña y José Cuauhtémoc Blanco, and produced in 199 ...
'' remake of the 1991 telenovela ''
Cadenas de amargura Cadenas is a Spanish surname. It is the surname of:
* Manolo Cadenas (born 1955), Spanish handball coach
* Margarita Cadenas, Venezuelan-French director, producer and screenwriter
* Rafael Cadenas (born 1930), Venezuelan poet and essayist
See al ...
''.
Elías has voiced Flint Lockwood in the Spanish-language version of ''
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It was first published in 1978 by Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Paperb ...
'' and its
sequel
A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the sam ...
from
Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation Inc. is an American animation studio owned by Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. The studio's films are distributed worldwide by So ...
.
According to an interview, he has stated that his daughter, Penelope, inspired him to be the dubbing voice of Flint.
He provided the voice of Charro Negro, the main antagonist of the Mexican animated film, ''
La Leyenda del Charro Negro
''Legend Quest: The Legend of the Black Charro'' (released in Latin America as ''La Leyenda del Charro Negro'') is a 2018 Mexican 2D animated action-horror-comedy film, produced by Ánima Estudios. In Spanish.
The fifth installment of the '' Ley ...
'' released on 19 January 2018.
Filmography
Films roles
Television roles
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
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1980 births
Living people
Male actors from Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexican Jews
Mexican male models
Mexican male film actors
Mexican male telenovela actors
Mexican emigrants to the United States
Singers from Guadalajara, Jalisco
21st-century Mexican singers
21st-century Mexican male singers