Pedro Telemaco
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Pedro Telemaco is a Puerto Rican
actor
, model and comedian
. He is a native of San Juan
.
Telemaco started acting at a very young age, participating in theater plays by the time he was thirteen. Telemaco made his television
debut in a telenovela
named La Verdadera Eva (The Real Eva). In 1983, Telemaco acted alongside Juan Ferrara
in channel 2
's acclaimed telenovela, Laura Guzman, Culpable! (Laura Guzman, Guilty!).
Telemaco was a drama student at the University of Puerto Rico
, where he kept acting in theater. At the time, heavy rumors about Telemaco becoming the first Black
actor
to star in a Puerto Rican telenovela surfaced in such publications as Vea
, Teve Guía
and other Puerto Rican gossip magazines. Telemaco was close to achieve this goal; he was chosen to star in a mini-series instead: 1988's Color de Piel (Skin Color) explored racial stereotypes in Puerto Rican society. The mini series was shown on Super Siete and gave Telemaco the opportunity of acting alongside Ruth Fernández
, Rafael Jose
and Nydia Caro
, among others.
Later that year, Telemaco moved to WAPA-TV
, where he acted as a comedian
in El Show del Mediodia (The Midday Show), a variety show hosted by Luisito Vigoreaux
. Being at WAPA-TV allowed Telemaco to act alongside Ivonne Coll
; the pair were featured in "Cuqui", a sitcom that Coll starred in. He recorded some television and cinema commercials, and, in 1989, he acted in five theater plays, including two musicals: Clemente, about Puerto Rican baseball
star Roberto Clemente
and where he acted together with Carmen Belen Richardson
, and a Puerto Rican version of Annie
.
Telemaco made his Hollywood debut later that year, having a minor role in a low budget movie, Cat Chaser
.
Telemaco moved to Spain
in 1990. He pursued a modeling career. He also performed as an exotic
dancer and released a music CD, Date Vida (Give Yourself Life). Telemaco acted in some theater plays there, becoming popular among Spaniard play critics. While in Spain, he furthered his studies in drama and began preparing for a future Hollywood career by taking English
classes. In 1992, he starred in a short film, Sabria que Vendrias (I Knew you'd Come), with Carmen Manzano as his co-star.
In 1997, Telemaco moved to Miami, Florida
. In the United States
, Telemaco participated in two Hispanic
television telenovelas, the play in English & Spanish: "The Valiant" (1998) directed by Venezuelan producer and director Raphael Ojeda, among other theater productions.
Telemaco returned to Puerto Rico in 2001, to act in En Pelotas...Una Comedia sin Pantalones, a play which was a Puerto Rican version of The Full Monty
.
In 2003, Telemaco played "Safio" in the made-for-television film, Bala Perdida (Stray Bullet).
That same year, Telemaco got his second opportunity in Hollywood, when he played a Cuba
n man in Bad Boys II
, which starred Will Smith
and Martin Lawrence
.
In 2004 Telemaco filmed El Cimarrón
, a movie about slavery
in 19th century Puerto Rico. The movie was released in early 2007.
He plays Osvaldo in Telemundo
's 2010 telenovela, El Clon
. In 2011, he made special appearance in Aurora
.
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...
actor
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....
, model and comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
. He is a native of San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
.
Telemaco started acting at a very young age, participating in theater plays by the time he was thirteen. Telemaco made his television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
debut in a 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"...
named La Verdadera Eva (The Real Eva). In 1983, Telemaco acted alongside Juan Ferrara
Juan Ferrara
Juan Ferrara is a famous Mexican telenovela and film actor,- Family :Juan is a son of the well known actress Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the famous Mexican actress, Helena Rojo...
in channel 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...
's acclaimed telenovela, Laura Guzman, Culpable! (Laura Guzman, Guilty!).
Telemaco was a drama student at the University of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...
, where he kept acting in theater. At the time, heavy rumors about Telemaco becoming the first Black
Black
Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...
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...
to star in a Puerto Rican telenovela surfaced in such publications as Vea
Vea
Vea is a Puerto Rican gossip magazine that has been published weekly since 1968.As a periodical that reports on the lives and activities of many of the island's entertainment, sports, and political personalities, the magazine is no stranger to controversy...
, Teve Guía
Teve Guía
Teve Guía is a Puerto Rican gossip and listings magazine. Published since the 1960s, Teve Guía is written in association with the United States magazine, TV Guide, but has a slightly different format....
and other Puerto Rican gossip magazines. Telemaco was close to achieve this goal; he was chosen to star in a mini-series instead: 1988's Color de Piel (Skin Color) explored racial stereotypes in Puerto Rican society. The mini series was shown on Super Siete and gave Telemaco the opportunity of acting alongside Ruth Fernández
Ruth Fernández
Ruth Fernández, a.k.a. Titi Ruth , is a Puerto Rican singer and former member of the Puerto Rican Senate. According to the "Comisiones Nacionales para la Celebración del Quinto Centenario" is said to be one of three artists whose contributions have helped unite Latin America...
, Rafael Jose
Rafael José
Dr. Rafael José Diaz is a Puerto Rican television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital. His family eventually moved to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where he was raised...
and Nydia Caro
Nydia Caro
Nydia Caro is an American & Puerto Rican actress and singer. Born in New York City to parents from Rincón, Puerto Rico, she initiated her career in the arts at a very young age while living in New York...
, among others.
Later that year, Telemaco moved to WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....
, where he acted as a comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
in El Show del Mediodia (The Midday Show), a variety show hosted by Luisito Vigoreaux
Luisito Vigoreaux
Luis Vigoreaux Lorenzana is a Puerto Rican actor and producer. He is the son of Luis Vigoreaux, a legendary Puerto Rican media personality and Rosaura Lorenzana Vilches...
. Being at WAPA-TV allowed Telemaco to act alongside Ivonne Coll
Ivonne Coll
Ivonne Coll is a former Miss Puerto Rico turned actress who played the role of "Yolanda" in the movie The Godfather II.-Early years:...
; the pair were featured in "Cuqui", a sitcom that Coll starred in. He recorded some television and cinema commercials, and, in 1989, he acted in five theater plays, including two musicals: Clemente, about Puerto Rican baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
star Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. Clemente played his entire 18-year baseball career with the Pittsburgh Pirates . He was awarded the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in...
and where he acted together with Carmen Belen Richardson
Carmen Belen Richardson
Carmen Belen Richardson is an actress and a comedian considered to be a pioneer of Puerto Rican television.- Early years :Richardson was born in Santurce, San Juan...
, and a Puerto Rican version of Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
.
Telemaco made his Hollywood debut later that year, having a minor role in a low budget movie, Cat Chaser
Cat Chaser
Cat Chaser is a 1989 film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Peter Weller and Kelly McGillis, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was adapted from the novel by Leonard and James Borelli....
.
Telemaco moved to Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
in 1990. He pursued a modeling career. He also performed as an exotic
Exotic
Exotic can mean:*In mathematics:**Exotic R4 - differentiable manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the Euclidean space R4**Exotic sphere - differentiable manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the ordinary sphere*In physics:...
dancer and released a music CD, Date Vida (Give Yourself Life). Telemaco acted in some theater plays there, becoming popular among Spaniard play critics. While in Spain, he furthered his studies in drama and began preparing for a future Hollywood career by taking English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
classes. In 1992, he starred in a short film, Sabria que Vendrias (I Knew you'd Come), with Carmen Manzano as his co-star.
In 1997, Telemaco moved to Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
. In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Telemaco participated in two Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
television telenovelas, the play in English & Spanish: "The Valiant" (1998) directed by Venezuelan producer and director Raphael Ojeda, among other theater productions.
Telemaco returned to Puerto Rico in 2001, to act in En Pelotas...Una Comedia sin Pantalones, a play which was a Puerto Rican version of The Full Monty
The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy...
.
In 2003, Telemaco played "Safio" in the made-for-television film, Bala Perdida (Stray Bullet).
That same year, Telemaco got his second opportunity in Hollywood, when he played a Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n man in Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II is a 2003 action/comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys. The film is about two police detectives investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami...
, which starred Will Smith
Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. , also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood...
and Martin Lawrence
Martin Lawrence
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably the films Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House...
.
In 2004 Telemaco filmed El Cimarrón
El Cimarrón (film)
The film El Cimarrón follows the lives of two African slaves brought to Puerto Rico during the era of slavery in the 19th Century.-Cast:* Pedro Telemaco - Marcos* Fernando Allende - Don Pablo* Dolores Pedro Torriente - Carolina* Teófilo Torres...
, a movie about slavery
Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
in 19th century Puerto Rico. The movie was released in early 2007.
He plays Osvaldo in 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 2010 telenovela, El Clon
El Clon
El Clon is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the U.S.-based television network Telemundo and Rede Globo. It is a remake of O Clone, a Brazilian telenovela that originally aired on Globo in 2001 and on Telemundo in 2002...
. In 2011, he made special appearance in Aurora
Aurora (Telenovela)
Aurora is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.Telemundo aired this serial from November 1, 2010 to May 20, 2011...
.