Biography
Salvador Pineda is known for his acting on many Televisa soap operas, including 1980s Colorina with Lucía Méndez, and Mi Pequeña Soledad with Verónica Castro. He is also remembered for his soap opera Tu o Nadie with Lucía Mendez and Andrés García. Pineda and García were considered two of the sexiest Latino actors of the 1980s, appearing in shirtless photos in magazines sold in Latin America.
Pineda's identifiable, gravelly voice and his physique led to his being type-cast as a villain, or, less frequently as a gruff, edgy heroic lead.
Pineda began his internationalization in 1984, when he worked in Puerto Rico as the star of canal 2's Coralito, with Sully Diaz. He returned to Puerto Rico in 1985, to film another telenovela with canal 2.
Pineda also made an attempt at a singing career, having released one CD. He is divorced from Venezuelan actress Mayra Alejandra. He has a daughter, but is very private about it.
Braulio Castillo Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor and radio host. He is the son of Braulio Castillo, an actor across Latin America, and the brother of the lesser known Jorge Castillo, also a television and theater actor.
Andrés García is a Dominican-Mexican actor. He is one of the more popular and well known actors in Mexico and Latin America and among Hispanic people in the United States. He was also a scuba diving instructor.
Luis Fernando Allende Arenas is a Mexican singer, actor, painter, film producer, and film director.
Miguel Ángel Suárez was a Puerto Rican soap opera and movie actor.
Arturo Peniche is a Mexican telenovela actor who became popular in Latin America during the 1990s. He is the brother of actor Flavio Peniche, who appears in the telenovela La Traición.
Juan Ferrara is a Mexican actor.
Saby Kamalich, born Sabina Fantoni Kamalich, was a Peruvian-Mexican actress, known for her work in television and film. Her father Antonio Fantoni was from Italy, and her mother was from Croatia. She became famous for playing the title character in the Peruvian telenovela Simplemente María in 1969. Aside from her telenovela roles, Kamalich starred in several Mexican film productions, including Valente Quintero (1973), with Antonio Aguilar, Narciso Busquets, and Sara García.
Rafael Sánchez Navarro is a Spanish-Mexican actor. He is the son of Manolo Fábregas, an actor from Spain who established himself in Mexico, who also acted in Puerto Rico and whose birth name is Ricardo Sánchez Navarro. Sanchez Navarro is also the cousin of Manuel Sánchez Navarro, who in turn is the son of Fábregas' sister, famous actress Viviana Fábregas, his aunt.
José María Torre is a Mexican Salvador-born soap opera actor and fashion designer who started his career at the age of five doing television commercials. He is the brother of actresses Fátima and Andrea Torre. He is known by the nickname "Chema".
Tú o nadie is a Mexican telenovela directed by José Rendón and produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and broadcast by El Canal de las Estrellas in 1985. It became a major international hit, and is considered one of the most successful telenovelas from the 1980s.
Eduardo Yáñez Luévano is a Mexican actor.
Alba Nydia Díaz is a Puerto Rican actress who has worked both on the island of Puerto Rico and in Mexico.
Osvaldo Ríos Alonso is a Puerto Rican actor, model, singer, and guitarist, who is best known for his roles in telenovelas. He has appeared in several soap operas, including Abrazame muy Fuerte, Kassandra and the 1996 version of La Viuda de Blanco.
Ricos y Famosos is an Argentine telenovela. Issued between January 1997 and December 1998 in two seasons of more than 175 chapters each. The first season was starring Natalia Oreiro, Diego Ramos, Oscar Ferreiro, Antonio Grimau and Jessica Schultz. The second season was starring Arnaldo André, Leonor Benedetto, Oscar Ferreiro, Millie Stegman and Jessica Schultz, being broadcast by Canal 9.
La hija del mariachi(The Daughter of the Mariachi) is a Colombian telenovela produced by RCN Television and written by Mónica Aguledo. It debuted in 2006.
Colorina is a Mexican telenovela produced by Valentín Pimstein for Televisa in 1980. It was a remake of La Colorina, while remakes of Colorina are Apasionada and Salomé.
Mayra Alejandra Rodríguez Lezama was a Venezuelan actress. She was the daughter of the Comedian, Charles Barry and the Writer and Actress, Ligia Lezama.
José Ignacio Valenzuela also known by the nickname Chascas, is a Chilean writer and screenwriter. Author of scripts for national and foreign soap operas, among which Amor a domicilio, La familia de al lado, Dama y obrero and adaptation of Lola—, He has also participated in the development of various television, literature, film and theater projects in Chile, Mexico, United States and Puerto Rico. He has published a number of novels and short fiction, and has also served as professor and instructor of creative writing.
Dean Zayas Pereira was a Puerto Rican actor, director, playwright, author, poet, dramatic arts professor, and television show host. He has directed some of Puerto Rico's best known telenovelas, such as Cristina Bazán, Coralito and Tanairi among others. Zayas was a catedràtic at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, for over 50 years.
Von Marie Mendez is a Puerto Rican actress and restaurateur. Alongside such others as Iris Chacon, Millie Aviles, Sully Diaz, Giselle Blondet, Ivonne Goderich, Marilyn Pupo and others, she is remembered as one of the leading actresses during the golden era of telenovelas produced in Puerto Rico, that being between the late 1950s and the early 1990s.
