María del Rosario Goico Rodríguez,, better known in show business as simply Charytín Goyco or Charytín, is a Dominican singer, comedian, television hostess and actress.
Emmanuel Logroño, better known as Sunshine Logroño, is an American actor. Logroño has worked in Puerto Rican media for close to five decades.
Elín Ortiz was a Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer. He died on June 12, 2016, primarily due to Alzheimer's Disease.
Alba Raquel Barros is an actress, comedian, and dancer. She is better known for her acting career, and she has won many national awards for her work, both in the television and theatrical fields.
Miguel Ángel Álvarez, also known as "El Men,", was a Puerto Rican actor and comedian.
The Ateneo Puertorriqueño is a cultural institution in Puerto Rico. Founded on April 30, 1876, it has been called Puerto Rico's oldest cultural institution, however, it is actually its third oldest overall and second culturally, after the Bar Association of Puerto Rico and the Casino of Mayagüez.
Antonio Sánchez is a Puerto Rican radio and television personality, show host and producer. Known for his humor, he is also known for his nickname, El Gangster. As of 2008, his television show, No te Duermas, had been on the air for 19 years.
The history of the Cinema industry in Puerto Rico predates Hollywood, being conceived after the first industries emerged in some locations of the United States, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany. During the US invasion of the island in 1898, American soldiers brought cameras to record what they saw. By 1912, Puerto Ricans would begin to produce their own films. After the early images recorded by the American soldiers in 1898, most of the films produced in the island were documentaries. It wasn't until 1912 that Rafael Colorado D'Assoy recorded the first non-documentary film titled Un drama en Puerto Rico. After that, Colorado and Antonio Capella Martínez created the Film Industrial Society of Puerto Rico in 1916, producing their first film titled Por la hembra y el gallo. Other film companies formed during the time were the Tropical Film Company (1917) and the Porto Rico Photoplays (1919). Puerto Rico was the second Latin American market to produce a sound film, filming Luis Pales Matos's script for Romance Tropical (1934). The film featured Jorge Rodríguez, Raquel and Ernestina Canino, Sixto Chevremont and Cándida de Lorenzo. In the late 1930s Rafael Cobián produced films starring Blanca de Castejón such as Mis dos amores and Los hijos mandan at Hollywood. In 1951, he would produce Mi doble with San Juan as its setting. Mapy and Fernando Cortés would also participate in the Hollywood industry, as well as throughout Latin America.
Con Lo Que Cuenta Este País was a popular Puerto Rican comedy sitcom that became a hit based on the popularity of its main character named Chevy.
Awilda "Wiwi" Carbia was a Puerto Rican actress, comedian, and impersonator.
Leopoldo "Pucho" Fernández II was a Cuban-Puerto Rican comedian. He was the son of veteran Cuban comedian Leopoldo Fernández, known as Tres Patines.
Hasta que el dinero nos separe is a Mexican telenovela premiered on Canal de las Estrellas on June 29, 2009, and concluded on May 16, 2010. The series is created and produced for Televisa by Emilio Larrosa, based on the Colombian telenovela Hasta que la plata nos separe written by Fernando Gaitán. It stars Pedro Fernández and Itatí Cantoral as the titular characters.
Carmín Vega is a Puerto Rican singer and comedian. She has been called "the woman with a thousand voices and a thousand faces".
Lourdes Chacón is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer.
Ramón Rivero — known as Diplo — was a Puerto Rican comedian, actor, and composer. Rivero made his television debut in Puerto Rico in "La Taberna India", the first comedy/variety show on Puerto Rican TV. He starred in the movies, Los Peloteros, and Una Gallega en La Habana. Rivero also organized the world's first known Walk-A-Thon, to raise money for the Liga Puertorriqueña Contra el Cáncer.
Marilyn Pupo is a Cuban-born Puerto Rican actress, singer and television show host. She is known for her stint as a television show host at Telemundo Puerto Rico's Noche de Gala alongside Eddie Miro, and for starring in the telenovela "El Idolo", also on that channel, alongside Jose Luis Rodriguez, during 1980 and 1981, as well as in other soap operas, such as "Maria Eugenia" and "Ambicion de Poder", where she starred alongside Martin Lantigua.
During the 1950s the impending arrival of television created public expectation in Puerto Rico, even influencing other entertainment mediums in the form of a song. WKAQ-TV was the first station to introduce regular programing in 1954, followed closely by WAPA-TV. The owners of these stations, Ángel Ramos and José Ramón Quiñones, brought their experience in the newspaper and radio industries to the new medium. The competition between WKAQ and WAPA would continue for decades, with both disputing the milestones of first videotape in 1966, first color transmission and satellite transmission in 1968. During decades, the ratings were dominated by local programming produced by Tommy Muñiz and Paquito Cordero, which adopted a family friendly approach. However, the retirement of the former, combined with the introduction of cable television and the acquisition of the largest stations by foreign interest brought changes in content beginning in the 1980s, with late-night shows and double entendre gaining prominence. Digital television was introduced to the market in 2009, widely displacing analog television.
Rosa Idalia Velázquez, better known as Rosita Velázquez, is a Puerto Rican comedian, actress and singer. She is best known for her participation in television comedy shows such as "Mi Hippie me Encanta", "En Casa de JuanMa y Wiwi" and "Los Kakukómicos". As a singer, Velázquez was a member of the popular Puerto Rican music group, "Moliendo Vidrio".
Los Kakukomicos was a Puerto Rican television comedy show which was produced by Paquito Cordero for Telemundo, channel 2. It was shown consecutively between 1980 and 1990.The show featured such stars as Lourdes Chacón, Otilio Warrington, the Argentine-Puerto Rican actress Raquel Montero, Rosita Velazquez, Juan Manuel Lebron, Waleska Seda, Shorty Castro, Adrian Garcia and others, as well as, before his death, Machuchal.
Vicky Hernandez was a Puerto Rican actress and television producer. Among the productions that she collaborated with, there were some that were internationally co-produced with Puerto Rico by such countries as France, Italy, the United States and Mexico.
