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Catalina Sandino Moreno made her screen debut as the title character in the critically-acclaimed film "Maria Full of Grace" from Fine Line Features/HBO. For her performance, Sandino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. The film debuted in the U.S. at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, and opened in limited release in July 2004. The film won the Grand Special Prize at the 2004 Deauville Film Festival. Sandino has earned other awards and nominations for her performance, including the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress at the 2004 Seattle International Film Festival and the award for Breakthrough Actor at the 2004 Gotham Awards. She was named ShoWest's International Star of the Year for 2005. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Fast-talking and feisty-looking John Leguizamo has continued to impress movie audiences with his versatility: he can play sensitive and naïve young men, such as Johnny in Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); cold-blooded killers like Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way (1993); a heroic Army Green Beret, stopping aerial terrorists in Executive Decision (1996); and drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995). Arguably, not since ill-fated actor and comedian Freddie Prinze starred in the smash TV series Chico and the Man (1974) had a youthful Latino personality had such a powerful impact on critics and fans alike.

John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez was born July 22, 1960, in Bogotá, Colombia, to Luz Marina Peláez and Alberto Rudolfo Leguizamo. He was a child when his family emigrated to the United States. He was raised in Queens, New York, attended New York University and studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg for only one day before Strasberg passed away. The extroverted Leguizamo started working the comedy club circuit in New York and first appeared in front of the cameras in an episode of Miami Vice (1984). His first film appearance was a small part in Mixed Blood (1984), and he had minor roles in Casualties of War (1989) and Die Hard 2 (1990) before playing a liquor store thief who shoots Harrison Ford in Regarding Henry (1991). His career really started to soar after his first-rate performance in the independent film Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991) as a nervous young teenager from the Bronx out for a night in brightly lit Manhattan with his buddies, facing the career choice of staying in a supermarket or heading off to college and finding out that the girl he loves from afar isn't quite what he thought she was.

The year 1991 was also memorable for other reasons, as he hit the stage with his show John Leguizamo: Mambo Mouth (1991), in which he portrayed seven different Latino characters. The witty and incisive show was a smash hit and won the Obie and Outer Circle Critics Award, and later was filmed for HBO, where it picked up a CableACE Award. He returned to the stage two years later with another satirical production poking fun at Latino stereotypes titled John Leguizamo: Spic-O-Rama (1993). It played in Chicago and New York, and won the Drama Desk Award and four CableACE Awards.

In 1995 he created and starred in the short-lived TV series House of Buggin' (1995), an all-Latino-cast comedy variety show featuring hilarious sketches and comedic routines. The show scored two Emmy nominations and received positive reviews from critics, but it was canceled after only one season. The gifted Leguizamo was still keeping busy in films, with key appearances in Super Mario Bros. (1993), Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Spawn (1997). In 1998 he made his Broadway debut in John Leguizamo: Freak (1998), a "demi-semi-quasi-pseudo-autobiographical" one-man show, which was filmed for HBO by Spike Lee.

Utilizing his distinctive vocal talents, he next voiced a pesky rat in Doctor Dolittle (1998) before appearing in the dynamic Spike Lee-directed Summer of Sam (1999) as a guilt-ridden womanizer, as the Genie of The Lamp in the exciting Arabian Nights (2000) and as Henri DE Toulouse Lautrec in the visually spectacular Moulin Rouge! (2001). He also voiced Sid in the animated Ice Age (2002), co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Collateral Damage (2002) and directed and starred in the boxing film Undefeated (2003). Subsequently, Leguizamo starred in the remake of the John Carpenter hit Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) and George A. Romero's long-awaited fourth "Dead" film, Land of the Dead (2005).

There can be no doubt that the remarkably talented Leguizamo has been a breakthrough performer for the Latino community in mainstream Hollywood, in much the same way that Sidney Poitier crashed through celluloid barriers for African-Americans in the early 1960s. Among his many strengths lies his ability to not take his ethnic background too seriously but also to take pride in his Latino heritage. He has opened many doors for his countrymen. A masterly and accomplished performer, movie audiences await Leguizamo's next exciting performance.

Lillo Brancato was born on 30 March 1976 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an actor and producer, known for A Bronx Tale (1993), Crimson Tide (1995) and Renaissance Man (1994).

Martina Garcia was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia.She is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and a bit of Italian.She has baccalaureate diploma in literature from Lycée Français Louis Pasteur. She also have a Diploma in Acting from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

In 2010, she was a member of the Feature Film Jury of the Festival Biarritz.

Natalia Reyes is a Colombian actress, producer and activist known for her starring role in James Cameron's Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) as Dani Ramos, she's also known for her role in the acclaimed award-winning Birds of Passage (2018) and Sony's hit TV series Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas (2015) (2015 most seen series in Colombia and Netflix Latin America). She has also also worked in Sticks and Stones (2018), Pickpockets (2018), Running with the Devil (2019) and Sumergible (2020). She was born in Bogotá, where she started acting when she was only 9 years old and after participating in numerous theatre plays, TV series and films moved to New York in 2011 where she graduated from The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She lives between USA and Colombia.

Raised in Spain by his Argentinian father, Colombian-born Juan Pablo moved back to Latin America in search of his roots, where he began acting studies in Bogota with Edgardo Roman and then continued in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Afterwards, he took the lead part in the TV series La Reina De Queens and appeared the theatrical play The Chronicle Of A Death Foretold. He then moved to Venezuela and starred in several telenovelas including Mi Gorga Bella, which was seen in over a hundred countries. Later, he garnered important roles in Venezuelan films such as Una Abuela Virgen, Dia Naranja and Puras Joyitas.

Back in Colombia he began participating in television series such as Tiempo Final, Sin Retorno, El Cartel de los Sapos, La Reina del Sur and Sony Entertainment's big Latin American success, Los Caballeros Las Prefieren Brutas. This led the way to Colombian cinema and he was featured in the films En Coma and The Snitch Cartel.

Joining forces with Venezuelan star Egar Ramirez and Venezuelan director Henry Rivero he created Drive Pictures and recently premiered Secreto de Confesion and soon will begin production of their second feature, Cruzao.

An avid cyclist, Juan Pablo resides in Miami with his wife, journalist and TV host, Monica Fonseca and their son Joaquin. Individually and as a family they participate on various campaigns are very active in human and animal rights organizations.

Claudio Cataño is a Colombian artist; actor, writer, and director. He studied acting at a young age with theater director DiPietro. He won his first audition at the age of 17 and has been working since. Claudio has worked with some of the best directors in Colombia. Born in December 29 1984 with an artistic background (Colombian Poet Mario Rivero is his grandfather) has cultivated a need for digging in all artistic environments. Moria, his First film as a director, is a self-claimed autobiography, with honest and sorrowful dialogues, as he said in an interview for El Espectador Newspaper: "I had a need to write Moria." Acting and directing are his passions.

Ana Lucía Domínguez was born on 2 December 1983 in Santafe de Bogotá, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Pasión de gavilanes (2003), Las Bandidas (2013) and Perro Amor (2010). She has been married to Jorge Cárdenas since 27 September 2008. She was previously married to David Alberto García Henao.

Rodrigo García was born on 24 August 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a producer and writer, known for Albert Nobbs (2011), Nine Lives (2005) and Mother and Child (2009).

Laura Catalina Ortiz was born in Bogota, Colombia. She finished high school early, took up acting and headed to Los Angeles where she now resides. In 2006, she booked a lead role off her very first movie audition for Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). Her performance was nominated for a Chainsaw Award. She followed that with a lead role in Chillerama (2011) and other big screen roles in Norbit (2007), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and voicing a character for Horton Hears a Who! (2008) (working with Jim Carrey and Steve Carell).

In television, Laura was recently a series regular for two seasons on FearNet Channel's Holliston (2012), a horror sitcom created by Adam Green. She has guest starred on ABC's Happy Endings (2011), Fox's In Justice (2006), Showtime's Sleeper Cell (2005), Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh (2004), and the Comedy Central pilot, Nightrider. In 2012, she guest starred in the ABC sitcom pilot, Happy Valley (2012) and in 2013, she played Rupert Grint's love interest in the CBS pilot Super Clyde (2013) (from Gregory Thomas Garcia, creator of Raising Hope (2010) and My Name Is Earl (2005)).

Laura is also a series regular voice on the Disney Channel animation, Fish Hooks (2010) and has voiced multiple characters for Adult Swim's Robot Chicken (2001). She also stars in the popular web series, The Real Housewives of Horror (2013). She presented at The Annie Awards with Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob).

Begonya Plaza was born in Colombia, as Begoña del Pilar Plazaetxea Goyenetxe. Her Colombian mother's father was Basque and her father is Basque, born in Gernika, Euskadi, where they moved to live when she was 2 years old until the age of 7 when the family immigrated to Hollywood, California. During her formative years, a continuous juggling act persisted between these three countries, later adding New York and Barcelona, where daughter Caterina was born.

Begonya began acting at age 9, and has been directed by some of the best, such as Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, Amy Jones, Oliver Stone, Tim Hunter and Philip Seymour Hoffman at New York's Labyrinth Theater. Austrian director, Kurt Palm chose Begonya to perform a one-woman theatre piece of erotic songs and poems of Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill.

She's acted opposite Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Klaus Kinski, Carrol O'Connor, Ana Ortiz and David Zayas, amongst others.

She is writer/director/editor of the documentary "Gernika Lives" about her Basque heritage and the tragic events that her father as a young boy experienced during the bombing of Guernica.

In her bio/drama "The Real Gernika", Plaza continues to explore political and cultural issues, with the late John Randolph playing an American Lincoln Brigades Vet of the Spanish Civil War who returns to Gernika to visit the grave of his ex-comrade; and there meets his granddaughter, Begonya.

She wrote/shot/edited "Souvenir Views" in New York and Barcelona as a tribute to the World Trade Center attack of 9/11. The film premiered in 2003 at The Tribeca Film Festival, Festival de Nuevo Cine Latino Americano, Havana Cuba, Giron Film Fest in Catalunya, Spain, and airs on The Independent Film Channel.

Wrote the screenplay, "The Persistence of Memory" about one year in the life of Salvador Dalí and his wife/muse the great Gala, seen from the eyes of a young lover, through New York, Cadaques and Rome. Glenn Close is committed to playing Gala and co-producer; Amanda Mackey is currently casting the uncompromising Dalí. Juan Ruiz-Anchia, Director of Photography from Bilbao, will debut as director.

Currently writing in workshop a One-Woman performance piece titled "Passion Flower of Spain" about Dolores Ibarruri's symbolic journey through the Spanish Civil War.

Beth Hall was born in NYC to a stand-up comedian father and actress mother and raised in Bogota, New Jersey. She graduated from Rutgers University and then moved into NYC. She started out appearing in commercials (such as for Wrigley and FedEx) and doing off Broadway theatre in New York City, before moving to Los Angeles. Beth is most known for her roles as Wendy, in CBS's Mom (2013) and playing Roger Sterling's secretary, Caroline, in AMC's Mad Men (2007). She has been married to Philip Mastopietro since April 5, 1997. They have one daughter together, named Nina.

Francisca Estevez was born on 17 November 2002 in Bogotá, Colombia. Francisca is an actor, known for Promising Young Woman (2020), Los Billis (2023) and Eva Lasting (2023).

Orlando Pineda was born on 21 July 1995 in Bogota, Colombia. He is an actor, known for Griselda (2024), Narcos: Mexico (2018) and The Infiltrators (2019).

Roberto Urbina was born in Bogota, Colombia. He is an actor and producer, known for Che: Part One (2008), Narcos (2015) and Recovery Road (2016).

María Alexandra Catherine Siachoque Gaete, known as Catherine "Cathy" Siachoque is a Colombian/American actress. She is a famous Soap Opera actress; best known for her villainous roles in numerous telenovelas, such as Decisiones, La Venganza, Las Juanas, Reina de Corazones, and many more.

She was born in Colombia on January 21, 1972 where she grew up along with her parents Blanca Gaete and Felix Siachoque. In 1997 she met her fellow telenovela actor, Miguel Varoni while filming Las Juanas (1997), in which they both had parts; they married in 1999.

Catherine Siachoque is a well-known Classical Ballet dancer and Professional Actress, who usually makes her filmings of Soap Operas and Series in the United States, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico for the American television network TELEMUNDO and for the well-known worldwide platform NETFLIX.

Catherine has received countless awards, magazine covers, newspaper articles, YouTube television interviews, "Red Carpet" and all kinds of accolades as an outstanding personality in the Entertainment and Dramatic Arts Industry.

She began her career as a professional Classical Ballet dancer from where she went on to musical theater, where she quickly stood out in works such as "La jaula de las locas", La casita del Placer and Peter Pan, the latter being the trigger for the most important producers of the time set their eyes on her and she was contacted to participate in various television productions. Thus begins his career and highlights how the revelation of the year in his first two simultaneous productions "Survive" and "The shadow of desire".

She has appeared in Telemundo produced series such as Las Juanas (1997), Amantes del Desierto (2001), La Venganza (2003) Te voy a enseñar a querer (2005), Pecados ajenos (2008), Tierra de Pasiones (2006), and the TV anthology series Decisiones (2006). Though she has become type cast as villains, some would consider her a sympathetic character as Doña Hilda de Santana in Telemundo telenovela Sin Senos no hay Paraíso (2009). In 2010, she reverted to villains as Cecilia Altamira in the Telemundo remake of ¿Dónde Está Elisa?. In 2011, she later played a complex character in another telenovela remake produced by Telemundo, La Casa de al Lado wherein she was the mistress (amante) of a character portrayed by her real-life husband Miguel Varoni, wherein she interacted with Maritza Rodríguez, Gabriel Porras, and Karla Monroig. In 2014, she marked her villains return in Reina de Corazónes, starring Paola Núñez, Eugenio Siller and Juan Soler. Since 2016, she has been playing the character of Hilda Santana in Sin senos sí hay paraíso, streaming in NETFLIX.

Nowadays, Catherine has taken a turn in her life to improve herself and renew her career intellectually and professionally for future projects. In the academic field, she is currently pursuing studies as Bachelor of General Studies in International Relations at the University of Miami; additionally, she has been accepted at Harvard University and is already enrolled in "The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports" at Harvard Business School, beginning this January 4, 2022

Juan Pablo Shuk was born on 7 November 1965 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an actor, known for Narcos (2015), The Internationals (2020) and Parot (2021). He has been married to Ana de la Lastra since 22 September 2012.

Aura Cristina Geithner was born on 9 March 1967 in Bogota, Colombia. She is an actress, known for Las profesionales, a su servicio (2006), Te voy a enseñar a querer (1990) and Luna, la heredera (2004).

Antonio Negret is an international filmmaker, fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from the USC School of Cinema Television, with a minor from the USC School of Theatre where he was the recipient of multiple scholarships.

Negret directed 'Overdrive,' starring Ana de Armas and Scott Eastwood, and distributed by Paramount. He is also an in-demand Television director, at the helm of multiple TV shows across various platforms, including 'Hightown,' 'Just Beyond,' 'Lethal Weapon,' 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,' 'Prodigal Son,' 'LA's Finest,' 'Arrow,' 'Magnum P.I.,' 'Riverdale,' and many more.

Previously, Negret directed the action film 'Transit,' starring Jim Caviezel, executive produced by Joel Silver, and released by Warner Brothers. Negret also directed the supernatural thriller 'Seconds Apart', released by Lionsgate and named in various 'best horror' lists of that year.

His first feature, "Towards Darkness," premiered in competition at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. It starred Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress America Ferrera. It was picked up for distribution by Peace Arch Entertainment and MGM. Subsequently, Negret's talent was recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as part of their 'Top 10 Latino Directors to watch'.

Negret has lived and worked in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, England, and the United States. He continues to pursue challenging and entertaining filmmaking.

Manuela González was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her mother, was an art critic, journalist and a poet and her father, was a successful architect. Her early education was at the Liceo Frances; therefore, French is her second language. She studied her junior and senior year of high school in Menlo-Atherton, California. Manuela went back to Colombia to study journalism, however, her fate redirected her to switch careers and study drama instead where she was discovered by a casting director. Her first acting job was a television series in Argentina called "Verano del 98". After the series ended she went back to Bogotá to continue her career in television. Most recently, She starred in 81 episodes in the Latin American hit series El Señor de los Cielos.

Manuela's journey has never stopped; she's kept her acting skills sharp by continuously taking workshops and classes in Europe and the US. Her broad experience in acting has given her the opportunity to work in different countries, such as Mexico, USA and of course, Colombia. Manuela resides between Los Angeles, and Bogotá with her son Pedro and her husband Andrés Felipe Vasco.

This Colombian actress, born December 19th, 1979, never expected her life would change since an audition in 1996. With a bit of self-confidence, Paola went to RTI, a colombian TV Production Company, for that audition. 2 days later Paola was required to join the cast of a new soap opera: _"Fuego Verde" (1998)_. She was amazed and so were her family because of her lack of experience and references in drama. Since then Paola started to take drama courses, looking forward to improve her performance. She left her industrial engineering career at La Sabana University and spent time on her acting career. In the end of the year Paola was rewarded with a TV & Novelas Award (a Latin American showbiz publication) as best female breakthrough performance. In 1998 Paola cast in another soap opera: 'Castillo de Naipes'. The same year she got a role in 'Corazon Prohibido'. The following year signed a contract with Cenpor TV Colombia for another role in _"¿Por qué Diablos?" (1999)_. That was the time when Paola also auditioned for a new role for Caracol TV Colombia, and got the leading rol as Fabiola in La baby Sister (2000). She spent her talent and made her character emotionally balanced. The soap opera became a success, after 'Yo soy Betty La Fea', in Colombia and abroad. One of Paola's hobbies is racing cars (she is dating a racing driver) and her expectation is to work on Broadway.

Lou Castel was born on 28 May 1943 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an actor and director, known for Fists in the Pocket (1965), A Bullet for the General (1967) and The Birth of Love (1993).

Jacques Toukhmanian was born on 15 August 1981 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is an actor, known for Sicosexual (2022), Francisco the Mathematician (1999) and La Ley del Corazón (2016).

Ana María Orozco was born on 4 July 1973 in Bogota, Colombia. She is an actress and producer, known for Yo soy Betty, la fea (1999), Perro amor (1998) and Amas de casa desesperadas (2006). She was previously married to Martín Quaglia and Julián Arango.

David Gallego was born in 1977 in Bogota, Colombia. He is a cinematographer and editor, known for Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Birds of Passage (2018) and I Am Not a Witch (2017).