Edgardo Bruna

Edgardo Bruna del Campo (8 February 1947 – 19 March 2017) was a Chilean actor, musician, theater director, and social activist, recognized for his long career in various productions and plays. He is known for his roles in telenovelas, playing the evil Fernando Bernard in (1994), inspector Igor in (1996), the swindler Renacuajo in Tic Tac (1997), the patron of Fernando Guerra in Aquelarre (1999), Don Clinton in Amores de mercado (2001), and José Reyes in (2002). Biography Edgardo Bruna studied at the and the San Felipe Boys School. In 1963 he entered the acting profession at the University of Chile, where he had national theater figures as teachers, such as , , and Agustín Siré. Thanks to a scholarship, he traveled to the United States to perfect his skills in dramatic arts at the University of California, Berkeley, home of the hippie movement in the late 1960s. He decided to return to Chile in 1971 to be present in the government of President Salvador Allende. Later, after the 1973 coup d'état, he left for Mexico, where he lived for five years. Before dedicating himself to acting, he was a musician and participated in the folk group Los Paulos, together with Pedro Messone. The group won the folkloric competition of the 1966 Viña del Mar International Song Festival with the song "La burrerita".