Marco Castro in Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

, Peru

Peru

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 is an American

United States

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  film

Film

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 director

Film director

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, actor

Actor

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 and photographer.

Biography

Born in Lima Peru of a Japanese Spanish

Spanish people

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 descent. He started his career at a very young age studying theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 and performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 since he was 8 years old. By the age of 18 he started working as a make up artist with François Nars and collaborating with world known photographers such as Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

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, Brigitte Lacombe

Brigitte Lacombe

Brigitte Lacombe is a French celebrity and film photographer residing in New York City. In May 2009, she published a collection “Lacombe anima/persona” with her photographs covering her work from 1975-2008...

, David Lachapelle

David LaChapelle

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, Elaine Constantine

Elaine Constantine

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, to name a few with whom he learned the importance of storytelling through images.In the year 2000 he moved to Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

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, were he continued pursuing his film career and started working as a regular for El Deseo

El Deseo

El Deseo is film production company owned by Spanish film producers the Almodóvar brothers . Films produced by the company include All About My Mother, Talk to Her, My Life Without Me, Bad Education, Volver, Broken Embraces and The Skin I Live In.- External links :* Film production company owned...

  production company. Little by little cut up with the fashion industry he starts creating,producing and directing a number of short films, video art

Video art

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 installations

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 and photographs that have been displayed in many different art galleries, film festivals and museums were they worship his work, in 2005 he meets Loles Leon

Loles León

María Dolores León Rodríguez is a Spanish actress.She went to Madrid to start a career as an actress. She met Pedro Almodóvar during La Movida Madrileña. He offered her the roles she played in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios and ¡Átame!...

 (actress known for her work in many of Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

´s films)and her son Bertoldo with whom they founded Emperactriz Films and produced his short film Manuela.in the year 2006 Marco collaborated in the 'iAlmodóvar Exhibition!' for La Cinematheque francaise.He now lives in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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 New York

New York

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  directing film

Film

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 video art

Video art

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 and music videos.

Filmography

• Glen or Glenda (2007)
• Manuela (2006)
• Amar i yo (2006)
• Fanatica
  Fanatica
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  (2005)
• Oferta (2005)
• Sodomia (2004)
• El Amor
  El Amor
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  (2003)
• La Lluvia (2003)