Career

Jorge Nisco started his career in 1997, when he met actor Adrián Suar

Adrián Suar

Adrián Kirzner Schwartz, better known as Adrián Suar is an Argentine Jewish former actor, and a current media producer and businessman, better known as the programme director of Canal 13....

, who pitched him an idea for a TV show called "R.R.D.T". The show starred name actors Carlos Calvo, China Zorrilla

China Zorrilla

China Zorrilla is an award-winning Uruguayan theater, film and television actress....

, José "Pepe" Soriano

Pepe Soriano

Pepe Soriano is a prominent Argentine actor and playwright.-Life and work:Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina...

, Nancy Dupláa

Nancy Dupláa

Nancy Dupláa is an Argentine actress.She was born in Olivos, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires), and was raised in San Martín, a suburb to the west. She enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires to pursue a degree in graphic design, but discontinued her studies after two years...

 and Diego Peretti

Diego Peretti

Diego Peretti is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and former psychiatrist.Peretti was born in Buenos Aires, and practiced as a psychiatrist for fourteen years. He took part in several movies and TV series, including the 2004 romantic comedy, No sos vos, soy yo, and Los Simuladores a popular TV...

, and brought Nisco to prominence in the Argentine film industry. That very same year he directed his first and so far only film, Comodines, based on another of Suar's "ideas" as he is thus credited. The movie reunited most of the cast of "R.R.D.T.", with Suar and Calvo in the leads, as well as veteran character actor

Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

 Alejandro Awada

Alejandro Awada

Alejandro Awada is an Argentine character actor.- Filmography :*Bye Bye Life *Ratón Pérez, El *Suspiros del corazón *El Aura *Tigre escondido, El...

.

In 1999, Nisco directed his first mini-series, El Hombre

El hombre

El hombre is the tenth album by the folk music artist Rolando Alarcón. On the album he is accompanied by Los Emigrantes.- Track listing :# "El hombre"# "La quebrada de la luna"# "Paloma mía"# "La hierba de los caminos"# "Cuando una tarde salí"...

, which also spun from an original idea by Suar. Adrián Suar would go on to collaborate with his "original ideas" in 10 of the 13 TV series and mini-series Nisco directed from 1999 to 2007, occasionally acting in them as well.

In 2002, Nisco was credited as "second unit director" in the series "Son Amores", which starred friend Adrián Suar. In 2004, Nisco co-directed along Alberto Lecchi

Alberto Lecchi

Alberto Lecchi is an Argentine film, screenwriter and film producer.Born in Buenos Aires, Lecchi started working in Argentine cinema in 1979, as a second assistant director to Hugo Sofovich in the three films he directed that year...

 Epitafios

Epitafios

Epitafios is a 2004 13 episode, Argentinian crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El Final Está Escrito ... The End Is Written. The series, which takes place in an unnamed South American city, was shot in Buenos Aires....

, a 13-episode mini-series starring Julio Chávez

Julio Chávez

Julio Chávez is a well-known Argentine film and television actor.He was born Julio Hirsch in Buenos Aires, and received his first film role in 1973...

, Paola Krum

Paola Krum

Paola Krum was born Andrea Paola Krum on June 20, 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an actress, singer, and dancer, and is one of the many young, multi-talented Argentine performers of the present day. She has studied theater, dance, and voice since she was 10. Her breakthrough came in the...

 and Cecilia Roth

Cecilia Roth

Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg , a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Ukraine, is an editor and a journalist. He met Cecilia's mother, an Argentinian singer of Sephardic descent Dina Rot, in Argentina. Cecilia Roth has made appearances in numerous television series...

. It was the first original series produced by HBO and HBO Latin America.

In 2005 Jorge Nisco created his own production of content and formats of fiction, "Quark contenthttp://www.quarkcontenidos.tv" with its partner the script editor and writer Ramiro San Honoriohttp://www.ramirosanhonorio.com.ar.] Nisco in 2007 working for several local chains Film and Television, Televisa and [Fox Television Studios] to develop formats and scripts. In 2008 filming his second film version of Disney's success Argentina "[High School Musical], the challenge," making its another great box office success of his first film.

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