Marcelo Buquet

Marcelo Buquet (born October 4, 1963 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan actor and former model.

Biography

At the age of 18 Buquet joined a theater company in his native Uruguay called El Galpón del Uruguay where he participated in 25 stage productions as an actor, producer, songwriter and singer. At the age of 26 he moved to Mexico and participated in the telenovela Simplemente María with Victoria Ruffo and in Manolo Fábregas' production of Bear Jest for which he was nominated as the Best Comedy Actor of the Year by the Association of Theater Journalists of Mexico. In 1992 he obtained a role in his second telenovela: El abuelo y yo with Gael García Bernal. The following year he obtained a role in Uruguay's first full feature film El dirigible. In 1994 he produced and starred in Triángulo directed by Miguel Córcega in Mexico City and Montevideo, Uruguay and in Che... Che... Chejov which received the Best Self-Taught Production of the Year. In 1998 he played a villain in La usurpadora and its special short sequel Más allá de la usurpadora. His most recent work has been in his fourth Colombian telenovela: Doña Bella in 2010.

Awards

• 1998 Special mention by the Association of Theater Critics of Uruguay
• 1994 Best Self-Taught Production of the Year by the Mexican Association of Theater Critics
• 1991 Foreign-born Model of the Year by Contempo Agency

Films

• Decisiones (2007, TV) as Germán
• Lo que callamos las mujeres (2006, TV) as Hector
• El dirigible (1994) as the photographer
• Mujer casos de la vida real (TV)
• La hora marcada (TV)

Telenovelas

Mexico

TV Azteca

• Entre el amor y el deseo (2010-2011) as Gonzalo

Televisa

• La madrastra (2005) as Gerardo Salgado
• Ladrón de corazones (2003) as Bentiz
• Como Pedro por su casa (2000)
• El diario de Daniela (1999) as Enrique Monroy
• Más allá de la puente (1999) as Rodrigo Bracho
• La usurpadora (1998) as Rodrigo Bracho
• María Isabel, Si tu supieras (1997) as Cristóbal
• El premio mayor (1995) as Don Lorenzo
• Marimar (1994) as Rodolfo San Genis
• El abuelo y yo (1992) as Gerardo
• Simplemente María (1989) as Fernando Torres

Colombia

Telemundo

• La Tormenta (2005) as Simón Guerrero
• La mujer en el espejo (2004) as Juan Tobías Fonseca

RCN

• Doña Bella (2010) as Román Montero
• La Marca del Deseo (2007) as Reynaldo de Santibáñez

External links

• Marcelo Buquet Official Website.
• Marcelo Buquet at the telenovela database
• Marcelo Buquet at the Internet Movie Database
• Photo gallery and Profile (cached by Google)

Persondata
Name	Buquet, Marcelo
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	July 5, 1963
Place of birth	Uruguay
Date of death
Place of death