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Fernando Colunga Profile |
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Birth Date: March 3, 1966
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Birth Place: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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Birth Name: Fernando Colunga Olivares
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Height: 6'2"
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Biography |
Fernando Colunga (born March 3, 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico)
is a Mexican actor known for his performances in Mexican
telenovelas.
His father is Fernando Colunga and his mother Margarita
Olivares. Fernando Colunga from the time that was a little
boy wanted to be an actor. Fernando graduated from the
University of Mexico as civil engineer. But after advice
from a friend, Fernando went to the studios of Televisa, the
best studios for the well-known and successful in
telenovelas. Fernando started his career as a stand-in. A
producer noticed his great acting talent and from then the
excellent acting career of Fernando begun.
His first participation in the television was with the
telenovela "María Mercedes" (1992) (qv. The role of Fernando
in this telenovela was originally made for 10 episodes, but
after the huge success that his role had, the producers made
80 more episodes with Fernando Colunga). From then onwards,
he acted in many telenovelas like "Marimar" (1994) before he
took his first leading role. His first leading role was in
the telenovela "María la del Barrio" (1996), which was very
successful. Right after this telenovela, Fernando took his
second leading role in the telenovela "Esmeralda" (1997)
that made him very famous not only in Mexico but in 170
countries of the world where the telenovela has been shown.
Fernando became a huge TV-star with big ratings and millions
of fans.
In 1998 Fernando filmed "La Usurpadora" (1998), a telenovela
that had a huge rating in Mexico and in all over the world.
In 1999 Fernando continued his bright career with "Nunca te
olvidaré" (1999) and in the end of this year Fernando acted
in the Christmas-telenovela of Televisa Cuento de Navidad
(1999/I) (mini). The peak of his career to date came in
2000-2001 when his telenovela "Abrázame muy fuerte" (2000)
won two awards for his acting in the leading role of Carlos
Manuel Rivero, the "Los Heraldos" award, something like the
Mexican Oscars and the "TV y Novelas" award, an award that
is right from the votes of the Mexican audience, while
"Abrázame muy fuerte" was the most successful telenovela of
the year and of the most recent years and took the award of
the best telenovela in the same ceremonies. At
Christmas-time of 2001, Fernando filmed the
Christmas-telenovela "Navidad sin fin (2001) (mini) in which
Fernando played a surprise role of an "ugly" and poor man. |
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Other Information |
Has practised martial arts since he was 9 years old.
Has his own auto-parts bussines.
Worked as a stuntman in some soap operas.
Majored in Civil Engineering.
Got his drama education at CEA (Centro de Educación
Artística de Televisa)
Practices scuba diving in the Caribean Seas.
Former barman.
Rides motorcycles in his free time. |
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