Fernando Colunga is one of the best actors in our country. He has been in the world of soap operas for more than 20 years and has given us impeccable performances, which are still remembered to this day.
Fernando Colunga had many other jobs before finding fame. He studied civil engineering, owned a hardware store, was a car dealer, worked as an administrator and bartender, but always wanted to be an actor.
His first job was as a double for Eduardo Yáñez in “Dulce desafío”, but his rise to fame was due to his performance in the children’s program “Plaza Sésamo”. This job opened the doors to dozens of jobs where he was later listed as one of the top gallants in the country.
In 2003, he starred in “Amor real” with Adela Noriega. There he played Manuel Fuentes Guerra, and the period looks captivated thousands of viewers. “Defying the rules of the aristocracy, Matilde falls in love with a soldier without fortune”, indicates the official synopsis of the telenovela.
Another of Fernando Colunga’s most remembered roles was that of Count Don Luis Manrique y Arellano in the telenovela “Alborada”. The actor surprised his fans with long hair and a beard, as well as an extremely manly attitude.
“A story that takes place in the days of the Colony in Latin America, a time of injustice and great social differences, when the people lived under the shadow of the nobility, and rich and poor at the mercy of the relentless Inquisition”, indicates the official synopsis of “Alborada”, the telenovela where Fernando Colunga shared the screen with Lucero.
What is Fernando Colunga’s latest work?
Last year Fernando Colunga premiered the series “El secreto de la familia Greco”, which is based on the history of the Puccio family, a family from Argentina that kidnapped and murdered people in the 80s in that country.
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