Fernando Colunga
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Fernando Colunga is a Mexican
actor known for his work in Mexican telenovela
s.
Some of Colungas' best known television work include Maria la del Barrio
with Thalía
, Esmeralda
with Leticia Calderón
, La Usurpadora
with Gabriela Spanic
, Abrazame muy Fuerte
with Aracely Arámbula
, Amor Real
with Adela Noriega
, Alborada
with Lucero
, Pasion
with Susana González
, Mañana Es Para Siempre with Silvia Navarro
& Lucero
, Soy tu dueña
with Lucero
& Gabriela Spanic
. Colunga received his drama education at CEA (Centro de Educación Artística
de Televisa).
. Around this time he also joined the cast of the children's show Plaza Sesamo
and small roles in Madres Egoistas and Cenizas y diamantes. In 1992 he landed his first major role in television as Chicho in the successful Maria Mercedes
alongside Thalía. Supporting roles in Mas alla del puente and Marimar soon followed, but it wasn't until he landed the role of Luis Fernando de la Vega in Maria la del Barrio
that he became a household name. Since the mid 1990s he's been one of the best known leading actors in Mexican telenovelas. In 2003 he played leading role in Amor real
alongside Adela Noriega
.
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
actor known for his work in Mexican telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s.
Some of Colungas' best known television work include Maria la del Barrio
María la del Barrio
María la del barrio is the 3rd telenovela of Thalía from the trilogy of 'Maria'. Is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Iran Eory and the youngest actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides...
with Thalía
Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda , known simply by the mononym Thalía , is a Mexican singer and actress. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide...
, Esmeralda
Esmeralda (telenovela)
Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984.-Plot:...
with Leticia Calderón
Leticia Calderón
Carmen Leticia Calderón León is a Mexican actress.She lived in Alvarado, Veracruz, Guaymas, Sonora, La Paz and Mexico City where she studied at the Centro de Capacitación de Televisa ....
, La Usurpadora
La usurpadora
La Usurpadora is a Mexican romantic drama telenovela produced by Salvador Mejia Alejandre and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from February 9, 1998 to July 24, 1998. It starred Gabriela Spanic and Fernando Colunga. This was one of the last telenovelas to feature Libertad Lamarque,...
with Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic , or Gaby Spanic, is an award-winning Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. Her twin sister is model/actress Daniela Spanic. She has a younger sister Patricia, and two brothers Antonio and Adiel...
, Abrazame muy Fuerte
Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Abrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
with Aracely Arámbula
Aracely Arámbula
Aracely Arámbula Jacques is a Mexican actress, model and singer.- Biography :Arámbula was born March 6, 1975 in the city of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. She was noticed for the first time in 1993 when she was chosen for the "Rostro del Heraldo de México". Arámbula also writes songs and plays guitar...
, Amor Real
Amor real
Amor real is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 2003. Amor Real is a historical telenovela set in the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. It also aired on Univision in the United States in 2004 and on REN TV in Russia...
with Adela Noriega
Adela Noriega
Adela Amalia Noriega Méndez , better known as Adela Noriega , is a Mexican actress. Noriega is best known for her starring roles in telenovelas. She came to prominence as a teenager, starring in teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas in the late 1980s...
, Alborada
Alborada
Alborada is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States...
with Lucero
Lucero
Lucero is a Mexican Multi-Platinum singer and actress. She has sold over 27 million albums worldwide. She has sung songs in Spanish, Portuguese and English. She started her career at the age of 10 as Lucerito. She is currently separated from singer Manuel Mijares, with whom she has two children...
, Pasion
Pasion
Pasion was an ancient Greek slave from the 4th century BC. He was owned by the bankers Antisthenes and Archestratus, located at Piraeus, the harbor five miles out of Athens. During his slavery, he quickly rose to chief clerk in charge of a money-changing table at the port , and proved so valuable...
with Susana González
Susana González
Susana Alejandra González is a Mexican actress. This particular Mexican actress is known for her talent, beauty and docile character.- Biography :...
, Mañana Es Para Siempre with Silvia Navarro
Silvia Navarro
Silvia Angelica Navarro Barva is a Mexican actress who began as a contract player for TVAzteca, where she starred in the telenovelas Perla and Montecristo....
& Lucero
Lucero
Lucero is a Mexican Multi-Platinum singer and actress. She has sold over 27 million albums worldwide. She has sung songs in Spanish, Portuguese and English. She started her career at the age of 10 as Lucerito. She is currently separated from singer Manuel Mijares, with whom she has two children...
, Soy tu dueña
Soy tu dueña
Soy Tu Dueña is a telenovela starring Lucero, Fernando Colunga, Jacqueline Andere, David Zepeda, Sergio Goyri and Gabriela Spanic. It is the remake of La Dueña, produced by Florinda Meza, that aired in 1995. The telenovela began airing on Univision June 1, 2010, replacing the second hour that...
with Lucero
Lucero
Lucero is a Mexican Multi-Platinum singer and actress. She has sold over 27 million albums worldwide. She has sung songs in Spanish, Portuguese and English. She started her career at the age of 10 as Lucerito. She is currently separated from singer Manuel Mijares, with whom she has two children...
& Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic
Gabriela Spanic , or Gaby Spanic, is an award-winning Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. Her twin sister is model/actress Daniela Spanic. She has a younger sister Patricia, and two brothers Antonio and Adiel...
. Colunga received his drama education at CEA (Centro de Educación Artística
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa is an entertainment educational institution in Latin America. It was founded on September 26, 1978 and it is located in the facilities of Televisa San Ángel in Mexico City....
de Televisa).
Biography
Born on March 3, in Mexico City, he was an only child of Don Fernando Colunga and Margarita Olivares. He graduated from the University of Mexico as a civil engineer, but dreamed of becoming an actor. In 1988 he started out his career as a stand-in in various movies and as a stunt double in the telenovela Dulce DesafioDulce Desafío
Dulce Desafío is a Mexican telenovela starring Adela Noriega and Eduardo Yáñez.-Plot summary:Dulce Desafío is a teen novela that tells a story about Lucero Sandoval, a sixteen year old girl who lives with her father, Santiago Sandoval and her sister, Beatriz...
. Around this time he also joined the cast of the children's show Plaza Sesamo
Plaza Sésamo
Plaza Sésamo is an educational children's television series for preschoolers, which is the Spanish-language adaptation for Latin America of Sesame Street. Both programs are pioneers of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment.The program was first...
and small roles in Madres Egoistas and Cenizas y diamantes. In 1992 he landed his first major role in television as Chicho in the successful Maria Mercedes
María Mercedes (telenovela)
María Mercedes was a Mexican telenovela directed by Beatriz Sheridan and starring Thalía and Arturo Peniche.-Plot:Maria Mercedes is a poor girl who is abandoned with her brothers and sister by her ambitious mother...
alongside Thalía. Supporting roles in Mas alla del puente and Marimar soon followed, but it wasn't until he landed the role of Luis Fernando de la Vega in Maria la del Barrio
María la del Barrio
María la del barrio is the 3rd telenovela of Thalía from the trilogy of 'Maria'. Is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Iran Eory and the youngest actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides...
that he became a household name. Since the mid 1990s he's been one of the best known leading actors in Mexican telenovelas. In 2003 he played leading role in Amor real
Amor real
Amor real is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 2003. Amor Real is a historical telenovela set in the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. It also aired on Univision in the United States in 2004 and on REN TV in Russia...
alongside Adela Noriega
Adela Noriega
Adela Amalia Noriega Méndez , better known as Adela Noriega , is a Mexican actress. Noriega is best known for her starring roles in telenovelas. She came to prominence as a teenager, starring in teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas in the late 1980s...
.
Television
- 2010: Soy Tu DueñaSoy tu dueñaSoy Tu Dueña is a telenovela starring Lucero, Fernando Colunga, Jacqueline Andere, David Zepeda, Sergio Goyri and Gabriela Spanic. It is the remake of La Dueña, produced by Florinda Meza, that aired in 1995. The telenovela began airing on Univision June 1, 2010, replacing the second hour that...
- José Miguel Montesinos - 2008: Mañana Es Para Siempre - Eduardo Juarez/Franco Santoro
- 2007: PasiónPasión (telenovela)Pasión ' is the telenovela that began transmissions on September 17, 2007, in Mexico; Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Carla Estrada and the stars are Susana González, Fernando Colunga, Sebastián Rulli, and Daniela Castro....
2007/2008 - Ricardo de Salamanca Lopez de Carvajal - 2007: Ladrón que Roba a Ladrón (To Rob a Thief)Ladrón que Roba a Ladrón (To Rob a Thief)To Rob a Thief is a 2007 Spanish-language film in which two thieves reunite to rob a television mogul.-Cast:Fernando Colunga as Alejandro ToledoMiguel Varoni as Emilio Lopez...
- Alejandro Toledo - 2005: AlboradaAlboradaAlborada is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States...
- Luis Manrique y Arellano - 2003: Amor RealAmor realAmor real is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 2003. Amor Real is a historical telenovela set in the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. It also aired on Univision in the United States in 2004 and on REN TV in Russia...
- Manuel Fuentes Guerra - 2001: Navidad sin Fin - Pedro
- 2000: Abrazame muy FuerteAbrázame Muy FuerteAbrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
- Carlos Manuel Rivero - 1999: Cuento de Navidad - Jaime Rodríguez Coder
- 1999: Nunca te OlvidareNunca Te Olvidaré"Nunca Te Olvidaré" is the title of the second, and final, single released by Enrique Iglesias from his third studio album Cosas del Amor.-Song information:...
- Luis Gustavo Uribe del Valle - 1998: La UsurpadoraLa usurpadoraLa Usurpadora is a Mexican romantic drama telenovela produced by Salvador Mejia Alejandre and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from February 9, 1998 to July 24, 1998. It starred Gabriela Spanic and Fernando Colunga. This was one of the last telenovelas to feature Libertad Lamarque,...
- Carlos Daniel Bracho - 1997: EsmeraldaEsmeralda (telenovela)Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984.-Plot:...
- Dr. José Armando Peñarreal De Velasco - 1995: AlondraAlondraThe singer Alondra was born in Mexico City. She is a multi-platinum Billboard award winner and Latin Grammy-nominated recording artist. She was also known as "La Madrina de Menudo" for having a group of teenagers open for her concerts. This group eventually became known as the world famous Menudo....
- Raul Gutierrez - 1995: Besame en la Boca - Arturo
- 1995: Esclavos de la Pasion
- 1995: Maria la del BarrioMaría la del BarrioMaría la del barrio is the 3rd telenovela of Thalía from the trilogy of 'Maria'. Is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Iran Eory and the youngest actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides...
- Luis Fernando de la Vega - 1994: Mas alla del puente - Valerio Rojas
- 1994: Marimar - Adrian Rosales
- 1993: Madres Egoistas
- 1992: Maria MercedesMaría Mercedes (telenovela)María Mercedes was a Mexican telenovela directed by Beatriz Sheridan and starring Thalía and Arturo Peniche.-Plot:Maria Mercedes is a poor girl who is abandoned with her brothers and sister by her ambitious mother...
- Chicho - 1990: Cenizas y diamantes