Juan Ferrara
Encyclopedia
Juan Ferrara is a famous Mexican
telenovela
and film
actor
,
and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the famous Mexican actress, Helena Rojo
. He has two sons, actors Juan Carlos Bonet and Mauricio Bonet, with his second wife, Alicia Bonet.
's renown acting school, and producers decided to cast him as a star in his own telenovela,El Espejismo Brillaba. The novela became a major hit across Mexico and Latin America
.
In 1970, he starred in two extremely successful novelas, Yesenia
and La Gata. In 1978, Ferrara was in Viviana
, another extremely successful novela. He portrayed Julio Montesinos. In 1982 Ferrara then went on to star in Gabriel y Gabriela
, though it was not as successful as his previous ventures.
1983 proved to be an important career year for Ferrara, as he established himself as an actor in Puerto Rico
as well. Hired by Canal 2
, he filmed Laura Guzman, Culpable!, a soap opera that became one of Puerto Rico's most seen television programs ever. Due to the novela's overwhelming popularity in Puerto Rico, the network decided to bring Ferrara back in 1985, to film a telenovela called Tanairi
. Ferrara starred alongside Von Mari Mendez in this soap opera, which went on to become one of Puerto Rico's most critically acclaimed television shows of all time, as well as the most expensive telenovela to produce in Puerto Rican
history.
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....
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"...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
,
Family
Juan is a son of the well known actress Ofelia GuilmáinOfelia Guilmain
Ofelia Guilmain was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico.She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmain...
and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the famous Mexican actress, Helena Rojo
Helena Rojo
Helena Rojo is a leading Mexican film, theater and television actress.-Biography:She began her career as a model in the early-1960s. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renown Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 1968 in the film El club...
. He has two sons, actors Juan Carlos Bonet and Mauricio Bonet, with his second wife, Alicia Bonet.
Biography
Ferrara demonstrated an interest in acting since he was a young child. But it wasn't until he was 22 that he booked his first job as an actor. He changed his name to Juan Ferrara before playing a small role in the 1965 movie, "Tajimara". In 1966, he got his first major movie role, as Sonny in Los Angeles de Puebla. Ferrara by then had graduated from TelevisaTelevisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
's renown acting school, and producers decided to cast him as a star in his own telenovela,El Espejismo Brillaba. The novela became a major hit across Mexico and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
.
In 1970, he starred in two extremely successful novelas, Yesenia
Yesenia
Yesenia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Irene Sabido for Televisa in 1987. The protagonists of this telenovela were Adela Noriega and Luis Uribe. In this telenovela Adela Noriega made her debut as a leading actress.-Plot summary :...
and La Gata. In 1978, Ferrara was in Viviana
Viviana
Viviana is a 1916 short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason....
, another extremely successful novela. He portrayed Julio Montesinos. In 1982 Ferrara then went on to star in Gabriel y Gabriela
Gabriel y Gabriela
Gabriel y Gabriela was a Mexican telenovela made by Televisa and produced by Patricia Lozano in 1982. The series was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, who also wrote the adaptation for television. The series featured an original song "Dulce Amor", written by Bebu Silvetti and...
, though it was not as successful as his previous ventures.
1983 proved to be an important career year for Ferrara, as he established himself as an actor in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
as well. Hired by Canal 2
Telemundo Puerto Rico
The name Telemundo Puerto Rico may represent:* WKAQ-TV, a Telemundo station in San Juan, Puerto Rico* Telemundo Puerto Rico , a former Spanish-language cable network...
, he filmed Laura Guzman, Culpable!, a soap opera that became one of Puerto Rico's most seen television programs ever. Due to the novela's overwhelming popularity in Puerto Rico, the network decided to bring Ferrara back in 1985, to film a telenovela called Tanairi
Tanairi
Tanairí is a telenovela produced in Puerto Rico in 1985. Theme song "Soledad" by Nydia Caro. It was regarding slavery on the island during Spanish rule. The title "Tanairí" derives from the name of the hacienda where the action took place.- Cast :...
. Ferrara starred alongside Von Mari Mendez in this soap opera, which went on to become one of Puerto Rico's most critically acclaimed television shows of all time, as well as the most expensive telenovela to produce in Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
history.
Telenovelas
- El Espejismo Brillaba (1966) (Noticeable Hypocrisy)
- Los Inconformes (1968) (The Unsatisfied Ones)
- Lo que no Fue (1969) (What Couldn't Be)
- Del Altar a la Tumba (1969) (From the Altar to the Tomb)
- Concierto de Almas (1969) (Souls Concert)
- YeseniaYeseniaYesenia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Irene Sabido for Televisa in 1987. The protagonists of this telenovela were Adela Noriega and Luis Uribe. In this telenovela Adela Noriega made her debut as a leading actress.-Plot summary :...
(1970) - La Gata (1970) (The Female Cat)
- VivianaVivianaViviana is a 1916 short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason....
(1978) as Julio Montesinos - Ladronzuela (1978) (Little Female Thief)
- El Hogar que yo Robe (1981) (The Home I Stole) as Carlos Valentin Velarde
- Gabriel y GabrielaGabriel y GabrielaGabriel y Gabriela was a Mexican telenovela made by Televisa and produced by Patricia Lozano in 1982. The series was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, who also wrote the adaptation for television. The series featured an original song "Dulce Amor", written by Bebu Silvetti and...
(1982) - ¡Laura Guzmán, Culpable! (1983) (Laura Guzman, Guilty!)
- TanairiTanairiTanairí is a telenovela produced in Puerto Rico in 1985. Theme song "Soledad" by Nydia Caro. It was regarding slavery on the island during Spanish rule. The title "Tanairí" derives from the name of the hacienda where the action took place.- Cast :...
(1985) - DestinoDestinoDestino is an animated short film released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion...
(1989) - Valeria y Maximiliano(1991) as Maximiliano Riva
- Valentina (1993)
- La Antorche EncendidaLa Antorche EncendidaLa Antorche Encendida is a historical telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1996. It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy. It was written by Fausto Zeron-Medina in collaboration with Liliana...
(1996) as Don Pedro de Soto - Desencuentro (1997) as Andrés
- Infierno en el Paraíso (1999) as Alejandro Valdivia
- ¡Vivan los niños! (2002) as Lic. Mauricio Borbolla
- Tu historia de amor (2003) as Ernesto
- RebeldeRebeldeRebelde was a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and created by Cris Morena. It is a remake of a famous Argentine series Rebelde Way adapted for the Mexican audience therefore leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. The series ran for three seasons, the final episode airing in...
(2004) as Franco Colucci - PasionPasión (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) as Jorge Mancera y Ruiz - Verano de AmorVerano de AmorVerano de amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of a famous Argentine telenovela, Verano del 98, adapted for the Mexican audience. The soap opera premiered on February 9, 2009, replacing the completed series Juro que te amo...
(2009) as Othon Villalba Limonqui - Mar de AmorMar de amor__FORCETOC__Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux and stars Zuria Vega and Mario Cimarro and antagonistic Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta....
(2009) as Guillermo Briceno - La fuerza del destinoLa fuerza del destinoLa Fuerza del Destino is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa under Rosy Ocampo. Sandra Echeverria, who is a Telemundo exclusive artist, temporarily joined Televisa as the protagonist of the telenovela as part of the Televisa - Telemundo artist exchange. David Zepeda also serves as the main...
(2011) as Juan Jaime Mondragon
Films
- Tajimara (1965)
- Tirando a Gol (1965) (Trying to Score)
- La Muerte es Puntual (1965) (Death is Always on Time)
- Los Angeles de Puebla (1966) (PueblaPueblaPuebla officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 217 municipalities and its capital city is Puebla....
's AngelAngelAngels are mythical beings often depicted as messengers of God in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles along with the Quran. The English word angel is derived from the Greek ἄγγελος, a translation of in the Hebrew Bible ; a similar term, ملائكة , is used in the Qur'an...
s) as Sonny - Pedro ParamoPedro PáramoPedro Páramo is a short novel written by Juan Rulfo, originally published in 1955. In just the 23 FCE editions and reprintings, it had sold 1,143,000 copies by November 1997. Other editions in Mexico, Spain, and other nations have sold countless more copies...
(1967) (as Florencio) - Esclava del Deseo (1968) (Slave of Desire)
- No hay Cruces en el Mar (1968) (There are no Crosses at SeaSeaA sea generally refers to a large body of salt water, but the term is used in other contexts as well. Most commonly, it means a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, and is commonly used as a synonym for ocean...
) - Corona de Lagrimas, (1968) Crown of Tears
- 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa is a 1968 Mexican film. The story involves a student at a convent who undergoes a radical transformation after consuming strange "mushrooms"....
) (1968) (5 Chocolate ones and a Strawberry One) - El Club de los Suicidas (1968) (The SuicidalSuicideSuicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
Ones Club) - Los Problemas de Mama (1970) (Mom's Problems)
- Mision Cumplida (1970) (Mission Accomplished)
- La montaña sagrada (1973) (The Holy Mountain)
- El Manantial del Molagro (1974) (Miracle Falls)
- Ven ConmigoVen Conmigo-2002 bonus tracks:#"No Quiero Saber "#"Enamorada de Tí "# Spoken Liner Notes by the Band and Family: Intro# Spoken Liner Notes by the Band and Family: Ya Ves# Spoken Liner Notes by the Band and Family: Anque No Salga el Sol...
(1975) (Come With Me) as Guillermo - De Todos Modos, Juan te Llamas! (1978) (Your Name is Still Juan!)
- Noche de Juerga (1979) (Party Night)
- Misterio (1980)
- Dos y Dos, Cinco (1980) (Two Plus Two:Five)
- Mentiras (1986) (Lies) as Alvaro Ibanez
- Victoria (1987) as Jose Eduardo