José Guillermo Cortines
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José Guillermo Cortines is a Dominican
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

 actor and singer who is involved in films, telenovelas, musical theatre
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 and television. He currently lives in Miami and is better known for his role as Mauricio Montiel from the Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

's "El Rostro de Analía
El Rostro de Analía
El Rostro de Analía is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez, Martin Karpan, Maritza Rodríguez and the special appearance of Gaby Espino...

" and for his role of Osvaldo Guerra in the internationally acclaimed Más Sabe el Diablo
Más Sabe el Diablo
Más Sabe el Diablo is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This melodrama features lovers embroiled in intrigue, betrayal, vengeance and unbridled passion. It stars Gaby Espino, Jencarlos Canela and Miguel Varoni...

. He also was the host of the beauty pageants of Miss Dominican Republic 2002
Miss Dominican Republic 2002
Miss República Dominicana 2002 was held on July 29, 2002. 22 candidates representing provinces and municipalities entered, it was going to be 30 but there were various withdrawals. The winner would represent the Dominican Republic at Miss Universe 2003. The first runner-up would enter Miss...

 and Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2004
Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2004
The Miss República Dominicana Universo 2004 will be held on April 3, 2004. This year only 34 candidates were competing for the national crown. The chosen winner will represent the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant which was held in Quito...

. He also played an important role in the movie La Fiesta del Chivo

Biography

Jose guillermo studied in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

 at Colegio San Judas Tadeo, and at "Centro de Enseñanza El Buen Pastor". He graduated at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) in 1996 from Graphic Design and Publicity. He took singing lessons with Frank Ceara a singer from the Dominican Republic and also with María Remolá.

Career

He started his artistic career playing guitar in rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 bands. In the early 90', he enters television as hostes in many programs, "Sin la Muela en Vivo" bradcasted by "Mango TV" channel owened Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 and also he hosted "Cocoloco Internacional", "Boulevard 37", "Bureo Café" y otros. He played in the popular TV miniseries "Hasta que la Muerte nos Separe", "Cuando llama el Amor", "El Planeta" y "Apartamento 402" for the weekly program of Mariasela Alvarez
Mariasela Alvarez
Mariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón was Miss World 1982 and is currently a television show host and architect from the Dominican Republic. She became the first Dominican woman to win an international beauty title...

 "Esta Noche Mariasela". He also did Paraíso (serie de TV) which was aired in Spain
Spain
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.

In 1997, his roles in the theater made him very popular. Under the direction of the producer Nuryn Sanlley, he played the role of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...

, "LP Mision Disponible", y The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...

. In 1999, worked in the musicals Los Tres Mosqueteros
Los Tres Mosqueteros
Los Tres Mosqueteros were a reggaeton trio consisting of MC Ceja, Lito & Polaco, and Polaco. There was only one Album produced from this trio titled Los Tres Mosqueteros, in which each member appeared on the front cover of the album with a picture representing, a picture one would take before being...

,La Pinky, Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...

.

2003 worked with producer Amaury Sánchez, in "Sonido para una Imagen" and in 2005 in ¨Disco Forever¨. Other plays in which he appeared are La Bella y la Bestia "Los Piratas de Barba Negra" and "Una Fiesta Inolvidable". In 2008 he played Marius Pontmercy in "Los Miserables
Los Miserables
Los Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary...

". He played the character Osvaldo Guerra in Telemundo's Más Sabe El Diablo.

He received an award for his role in Tropico
Trópico (telenovela)
Tropico is a telenovela produced and filmed entirely in the Dominican Republic by Venevisión International, Iguana Productions and Antena Latina...

with José Luis Rodríguez
José Luis Rodríguez
José Luis Rodríguez may refer to:*José Luis Rodríguez , , former Argentine football striker*José Luis Rodríguez González , El Puma, , Venezuelan singer and actor...

 ¨El Puma¨, and also from the Magazine Carteles de Miami. Esta novela fue transmitida por Antena Latina en República Dominicana y por Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 en Estados Unidos.

Films

In 2006 he had a role in the Dominican film, "Tres al Rescate".

He was Antonio de la Maza in the film La Fiesta del Chivo based in the novel of Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...

. 2004 worked in "Negocios son Negocios" y Los Locos También Piensan.

Present

2009 trabajó en la novela El rostro de Analía
El Rostro de Analía
El Rostro de Analía is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez, Martin Karpan, Maritza Rodríguez and the special appearance of Gaby Espino...

 de Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 hace el papel de Mauricio (Mauri) Montiel - Hermano mayor de Daniel y tío de Adrianita.
Más Sabe el Diablo como el fiscal Osvaldo Guerra y en el rol protagonico en Amores de luna como Javier Arenas para Telemundo.
También participó en el elenco de Sacrificio de Mujer para Venevisión interpretando a Marcos Castillo y en Eva Luna para Univisión con el papel de Bruno Lombardi.

Family

His parents are José Rafael Cortines Cajarvilles and María Evelina Dominguez de Cortines.
His been married since 2006 with actriz and presenter Dominique Bonnelly.
Actor=
  • 2010: Eva Luna
    Eva Luna (soap opera)
    Eva Luna is a 2010 telenovela co-produced by Venevision and Univision Studios, starring Blanca Soto and Guy Ecker as the main protagonists, and Julian Gil and Susana Dosamantes as the main antagonists...

    Bruno
  • 2010: Sacrificio de Mujer
    Sacrificio de Mujer
    __FORCETOC__Sacrificio de Mujer is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevision. From April 18, 2011 to June 17, 2011, Univision aired double episodes weekday afternoons at 12pm/11am central...

    Marcos Castillo
  • 2009: Más Sabe el Diablo
    Más Sabe el Diablo
    Más Sabe el Diablo is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This melodrama features lovers embroiled in intrigue, betrayal, vengeance and unbridled passion. It stars Gaby Espino, Jencarlos Canela and Miguel Varoni...

    (TV series) Osvaldo Guerra 2009-10
  • 2009: Amores de luna 2: Nuevos caminos (TV series) Javier Arenas
  • 2009: 3 al rescate Bilpo (voice)
  • 2008: El rostro de Analía
    El Rostro de Analía
    El Rostro de Analía is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez, Martin Karpan, Maritza Rodríguez and the special appearance of Gaby Espino...

    (TV series) Mauricio Montiel 2008-2009
  • 2007: Trópico
    Trópico
    Trópico is the compilation album released on June 22, 2009 by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona.-Track listing:# Historia de Taxi - Ricardo Arjona/Marc Anthony# Buenas Noches Don David - Gilberto Santa Rosa# Ella y Él - Ricardo Arjona...

    (TV series)
  • 2006: Viajeros El abogado
  • 2005: The Feast of the Goat
    The Feast of the Goat
    The Feast of the Goat is a novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart:...

    Octavio De la Maza
  • 2005: Los locos también piensan Pablo Cardona
  • 2004: Negocios son negocios Novio de Laura
  • 2003: Paraíso
    Paraíso
    Paraíso, the Spanish and Portuguese word for paradise, or paraiso, the Tagalog equivalent, may refer to:-Places:Belize*Paraiso, Belize; see Districts of BelizeBrazil*Paraíso, Santa Catarina*Paraíso, São PauloCosta Rica*Paraíso, Costa Rica...

    (TV series)

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