Andrés García

Andrés García (born May 25, 1941 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is an Dominican actor who is active in Mexico and known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States.

Born to Dominican parents of Spanish descent, Garcia lived in the Dominican Republic and moved to Mexico in his childhood, where he became a naturalized citizen. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, García became a sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, Hispanic soap operas and photo-romance novels: (magazine features showing photos of actors who create a story—a popular phenomenon across Latin America during the 1970s).

In 1984 García participated in "Tú o nadie", with Lucía Mendez and Salvador Pineda. "Tú o nadie" became a major hit, and helped García to receive many international offers. He accepted an offer to go to Puerto Rico in 1986, where he acted in WAPA-TV soap operas: "Amame", with Johanna Rosaly, and "Escándalo", with Iris Chacon and Charytin. "Escándalo", however, also flopped and the number of episodes recorded for that soap opera was cut in half by the television channel.

García is known for his portrayals of tough men, what some call the "typical Mexican macho". In real life, he allegedly enjoys living that way too. He has been involved in many controversies, scandals and gossip. In 1995, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and he travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, to seek treatment. He was declared cured of the cancer, and he began to promote a herbal product based on Cat's Claw. He continues to maintain that this product cured him. He has also admitted to having an inflatable penile prosthesis implanted ("La Bombita") and newspapers published photographs of his huge penis and García making autofellatio. In 2001, He defended his son, "Andrés García Jr.", against singer Lupita D'Alessio's declarations of her husband having an affair with García Jr. The husband and García Jr dismissed it as a lie and the Garcia's threaten legal action. In addition to that, he has hired security guards to follow him closely, worried about the recent streak of famous kidnappings in Mexico.

In 2001, García built a mansion that resembles a castle.

In September 2003, he made one of his several appearances on "Cristina", the Spanish-language talk show hosted by Cristina Saralegui, to defend entertainers against paparazzi. He also made a few comments of a controversial nature during that show.

In October 2003, Andrés García invited a fellow actor to his mansion for a "shoot-out". The García mansion was surrounded by television cameras, crews and police. However, the other actor refused the offer, after which García invited him to take one of two hot dogs he served. One of the hot dogs was supposedly poisoned. As it was, the actors called off the "shoot-out" and shook hands afterwards, causing many to believe that the entire drama was a publicity stunt.

In July 2005, Garcia declared on United States Hispanic television that he believes in reincarnation. He also said that he thinks he was Simon Bolivar during a previous life, and that if he had been a woman before, he probably was a prostitute.

García has participated in over fifty different projects, including film, theater, soap opera and photo-opera work.

García has also been involved romantically, and remains friends, with Mexican model: Carmen Campuzano, and Puerto Rican singer: Zeny, from the pop vocal duet, Zeny & Zory.

Later on in 2005, García participated in a reality show, named "El Principe Azul", ("Blue Prince"), a show which was geared towards finding his other son, Leonardo, a woman "fitted" to marry him. García began to flirt with the young women on the show, however, going as far as having an on camera kiss with one of the contestants, making his son grow frustrated and, eventually, leave the show. Two previously unknown men were then cast to participate in the show and try to conquer one of the ladies involved in it. In 2006 he starred in the famous soap opera: El Cuerpo del Deseo, with Mario Cimarro, Lorena Rojas, Sonia Noemí, and Erick Elias, among others, broadcasted by Telemundo International. The script of this telenovela, is about transmigration, "the passing of a soul into another body after death", a closely related subject to, reincarnation, coinciding with García's beliefs on this subject.

Andres Garcia got his "macho" image mostly from the Mexican' A+ movie "Pedro Navaja" (Peter the Knife) where he plays a street smart hustler where most of the beautiful women work for him on the street.

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