Juan Ferrara (born Juan Félix Gutiérrez Puerta; November 8, 1943) is a Mexican actor.
Family
Juan is a son of
Ofelia Guilmáin
Ofelia Guilmáin (17 November 1921 – 14 January 2005) was a Spanish actress.
She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmáin. Two of her grandchildren, sons of Ferrara, Mauricio Bonet, Mauricio and Juan Carlos Bonet, are als ...
and brother of
Lucía Guilmáin y
Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the Mexican actress,
Helena Rojo
María Elena Enríquez Ruiz (18 August 1944 – 3 February 2024), known as Helena Rojo, was a Mexican actress and model.
Biography
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, she began her career as a model in 1961. Toward the end of the decade, she studied ...
. He has two sons, actors
Juan Carlos Bonet and
Mauricio Bonet, with his first 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
Televisa
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April ...
's renowned acting school, and producers decided to cast him as a star in his own telenovela, ''
El Espejismo Brillaba''. The novela became a hit across Mexico and
Latin America
Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...
.
In 1970, he starred in two 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
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
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
A television show, TV program (), or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via Terrestrial television, over-the-air, Satellite television, satellite, and cable te ...
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 Marie Mendez in this soap opera.
Television
Awards and nominations
Films
*''
Tajimara'' (1965)
*''
Tirando a Gol'' (1965) (''Trying to Score'')
*''
La Muerte es Puntual'' (1965) (''Death is Always on Time'')
*''
La Valentina'' (1966)
*''
Los Angeles de Puebla'' (1966) (''
Puebla
Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...
's Angels'') as Sonny
*''
Pedro Paramo'' (1967) (as Florencio)
*''
Esclava del Deseo'' (1968) (''Slave of Desire'')
*''
No hay Cruces en el Mar'' (1968) (''There are no Crosses at Sea'')
*''Corona de Lagrimas'', (1968) ''
Crown of Tears''
*''
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa'') (1968) (''5 Chocolate ones and a Strawberry One'')
*''
El Club de los Suicidas'' (1968) (''The Suicidal 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 Conmigo'' (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
*''Fuera de la ley'' (1998)
*''Cuando las cosas suceden'' (2007) as De La Rosa
References
External links
almalatina.net's page on Ferrara
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1943 births
Best Actor Ariel Award winners
Living people
Mexican male film actors
Mexican male telenovela actors
Mexican people of Spanish descent