Pablo Catáneo is a fictional character in the 2012 Argentine telenovela ''

Graduados ''Graduados'' () is a 2012 Argentine telenovela that was broadcast by Telefe from March 12 to December 19. The plot concerns a group of people who graduated from high school in 1989 and reunite twenty years later. The main character, Andrés G ...

''. He is played by

Luciano Cáceres Luciano Cáceres (born January 24, 1977, in Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actor. He is primarily known for exclusively playing villain roles in most of the telenovelas he appears on. Early life His father had an independen ...

, both as an adult and, in flashbacks, as a teenager.

Fictional biography

Pablo Catáneo attended high school in the 1980s, graduating in 1989. He had sex with a girl in the bathroom during the graduation party, and his girlfriend María Laura Falsini left him when she discovered him. Still, as she got pregnant, her father Clemente Falsini forced them to a

shotgun wedding A shotgun wedding is a wedding arranged in response to pregnancy resulting from premarital sex. The phrase comes from the figurative imagining that the relatives of the pregnant bride threaten the reluctant male groom with a shotgun in order to ...

. None of them knew that María Laura was actually pregnant of

Andrés Goddzer ''Andrés "Andy" Goddzer'' is a fictional character in the 2012 Argentine telenovela ''Graduados'' (Graduates). He is played by Daniel Hendler, both as an adult and, in flashbacks, as a teenager. Hendler won two awards for his work as the characte ...

, another classmate that had a single date with her. 18 years later, a DNA test confirmed that his son, Martín Catáneo, was actually the son of Goddzer. He started a romance with coworker Patricia Longo, ignoring that she was Jimena Benítez, another former classmate.

Character creation

The character was initially proposed to be played by actor

Mike Amigorena Ricardo Luis Amigorena (born May 30, 1972 in Maipú, Mendoza Province, Argentina), better known as Mike Amigorena is an Argentine actor. Biography He was born in Maipú, Mendoza Province to a Basque Argentine father and an Italian Argentine m ...

, who refused it. As a result,

played it.

Awards

Luciano Cáceres was nominated for the 2012

tato awards The Tato Awards () are Argentine awards for television, released by the CAPIT (Cámara Argentina de Productoras Independientes de Televisión). The award is named "Tato" as an homage to the late Tato Bores Mauricio Borensztein (27 April 1925 ...

as actor in daily fiction, and 2012

Martín Fierro Awards The Martín Fierro Awards () are awards for Argentine radio and television, granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. History The awards were first given in 1959, limited to television. The next year, the a ...

for lead actor in daily fiction.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cataneo, Pablo Graduados characters Television characters introduced in 2012