Alfredo Castro

Alfredo Arturo Castro Gómez (born 19 December 1955), best known as Alfredo Castro, is a Chilean actor. With a well established trajectory in theater and television, he became one of the most well-known Latin American film actors of the 2010s. Personal and early life He grew up in a family of five brothers; his mother died of cancer when he was 10. He attended elementary and middle school at Saint Gabriel de Las Condes, Kent School in Providencia and Liceo de Hombres No. 11 in Las Condes. He entered the Theater Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, where he graduated in acting in 1977. That same year he received the APES Award from the Association of Entertainment Journalists. That same year he debuted in Equus, with good reviews from the specialized press. Acting career Between 1978 and 1981 he worked in Teatro Itinerante, of which he was one of its founders. In 1982 he participates in the production for Televisión Nacional de Chile De cara al mañana, beginning his extensive career on the small screen. He travels to London in 1983, with a scholarship from the British Council to study at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.