He has also participated in movies by other Latin American directors and in film festivals both nationally and internationally. By the end of his first year Gingold noted so much progress in Laredo that he suggested he study under violin master Ivan Galamian, whom he considered the best in the world. Alfredo da Silva was born on February 20, 1935 in Bolivia. He was renowned for his oratory. She has exhibited throughout the country, South America and Europe. Bolivia, country of west-central South America. He studied cinematography in Chile and is one of the founders of national cinema having filmed his first two short films there in the early 1960s, both with social themes. Gastn Surez (born January 27, 1929 November 6, 1984) was a Bolivian novelist and dramatist. Later, they had one more member and changed their name to Tab, and a renovated style with more influences from hard rock, psychedelic rock and progressive metal. Jorge Ruiz One of the pioneer film directors, and a founder of Bolivian cinema, he was born in the capital city, Sucre, in 1924. They performed in their native city first, achieving nationwide fame with the La Bomba song, that made possible for them to perform in all of Bolivia, Latin American countries and Europe, and is the most famous song by a Bolivian music group. He currently plays for Itag in the Categora Primera A. He has exhibited his creations both individually and collectively in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, the United States and Japan. His first two CDs are titled "Homenaje" and "Sonidos del Sur", both feature Latin American rhythms. He arrived in Bolivia in the 1960s working as a priest, journalism professor, radio commentator, conductor of several television programs on poetry and movies, literary critic (he wrote columns and 13 books about the cinema), collaborator to the Sanjins and Eguino group, organizer of cinema workshops, and script writer for films and documentaries all at the same time. Agar Delos was born in 1937 in Cairoma, La Paz, Bolivia. After leaving their native city for the Eastern capital in hopes of a better future, they built their own company there, named Chaplin Show after celebrated British silent actor Charles Chaplin, and debuted in 1895 with a comedy play. She has participated in the Miss World Competition the next year (2009) in Bahamas. Some of the people below are celebrities born in Bolivia, while others are simply notable locals. Indigenous actors and international actors, such as Geraldine Chaplin, have participated in his movies, making him one of Bolivia's most famous filmmakers. Politician Born: 03 February 1795 / Bolivian Hugo Banzer Politician Born: 10 May 1926 / Bolivian Carlos Mesa Politician, Historian, Writer, Journalist Born: 12 August 1953 / Bolivian Lidia Gueiler Tejada Political Leader Born: 28 August 1921 / Bolivian Vctor Paz Estenssoro Politician Born: 02 October 1907 / Bolivian Hernn Siles Zuazo Politician Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3. . Bolivian actors by century (2 C) Bolivian actors by medium (5 C) + Bolivian actresses (3 C, 2 P) Bolivian male actors (3 C) This page was last edited on 1 August 2015, at 13:21 (UTC). Ren Barrientos Ortuo was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as his countrys Vice President in 1964 and as its President from 1964 to 1969. Then, twenty years went by until his fourth movie, Los Andes no Creen en Dios came out in 2005, featuring both national and foreign actors. He studied writing in French universities. Very soon he was bought by US club DC United, where he played for about 8 years. Photo Source. Find out more about famous Bolivian Sportspersons, including Hugo Dellien, Hernan Cortez, Saul Farah, Katerine Moreno and Federico Zeballos. List of famous people from Bolivia, including photos when available. Susana Castillo Susana Castillo Lpez, born in La Paz, Bolivia, is an accomplished artist who has won awards and accolades and exhibits her work worldwide. David Santalla A movie and theater actor born in La Paz in 1936. Famous people from Bolivia including Bnsty, Fabru Blacutt, Evo Morales, Ximena Herrera, Megumi Bowles and many more. His first movie was filmed in 1975, and two more followed it. Not only is Zulma Yugar one of the most famous female Bolivian folk singers of all time, but she is also a politician. He co-founded the Bolivian Film School, the first in the country, half a century ago, where the first group of Bolivias movie stars was trained. As a diplomat he represented Bolivia in various European countries and also before the United Nations. Jaime Laredo Unzueta One of the best violinists in the world, he was born in Cochabamba in 1941. He has recorded 7 albums. Photo Source. The company has grown to include several more actors and a childrens division, they have a locale for acting workshops and events that belongs to the company, where they perform regularly for two seasons a year. He died in Italy in 1914. She was a director and writer, known for Sealed Cargo (2015), Esito sera La vida es un carnaval (2004) and Patricia, una vez basta (2005). He has won numerous national and international awards and his paintings are known best for their vibrant colors and the intense emotions they both exude and evoke. She was Mestizo by ethnicity meaning she was half European and half indigenous. In 1934's "Imitation of Life," Washington plays a light-skinned Black woman who denies her Black mother to cross the color line, posing as white. He has also worked as a producer, and has directed and acted in musicals and operas in the United States, one of which he brought to Bolivia recently. Martn Boulocq A director, producer and script writer born in Cochabamba in 1980. His movies are different from those of other Bolivian directors in that they fall into the comedy genre, with a style similar to the old Hollywood comedies from the 40s and 50s but adapted to the countrys customs and idiosyncrasies. Sopa de Man (Peanut Soup) Sopa de Man; Photo credit: Rocco Lucia. Her first full movie, and also her only to date, Sayariy came out in 1995 and won her awards at Sidney and Montreals First Peoples film festivals due to the outstanding manner in which the ritual native dance called Tinku was represented. He studied law at university but continued to . His most significant work, Bronze Race (1919), is considered one of the most influential Bolivian literary works and a precursor of the indigenism. He participated in theatrical plays in Paris at the same time as he studied, and worked with famous French mimes Jean-Louis Barrault and Marcel Marceau. Most of the time he plays solo concerts but when accompanied, has a preference for chamber orchestras. Jaime Laredo was born on June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Hes acted in over twenty films and more than one hundred plays. In a present time he works as a coach of a Futbol 7 club for Athlets. He financed the military coup that installed a dictatorship in 1980, in which Luis Garca Meza would be president and Suarezs cousin Luis Arce Gmez was Minister of the Interior, and so he received political protection for his enterprise. He was the most powerful drug dealer and trafficker in the country. La Paz has produced a number of famous personalities, including educators, philanthropists, actresses, models, political leaders etc. Vote For Your Favourite Bolivian Personality 1 Jaime Escalante (Bolivian-American Math Instructor) 133 20 Listed In: Miscellaneous Birthdate: December 31, 1930 Sun Sign: Capricorn Birthplace: La Paz, Bolivia Over the past few years he has shown a more realist trend, as can be seen in exhibits throughout Santa Cruz art galleries. Franz Tamayo Solares (28 February 1879 in La Paz 29 July 1956) was a Bolivian intellectual, writer, and politician. He also composed other works and a Mass that was kept forgotten in archives for decades. Founder of the EMUSA art society and gallery, the Erotic Movement section of the Sao Paulo Biannual Art Festival and the Banco de Ideas in Santa Cruz, where he presently lives and works as a professor in state and private universities. He belonged to the Jesuit order of priests. He began taking guitar lessons at the Escuela Nacional del Folklore (National Folklore School) in La Paz, Bolivia when he was 12 years old, where he studied under Matilde Casasolas and Severo Pea for three years until military coups in Bolivia made it impossible to continue attending however, he continued to study whenever possible. He later entered the theater and movies debuting in Santa Cruz in a mini-series. He might be recognized by his nickname king of cocaine. Read on to learn more about 11 of the greatest and most famous Bolivian singers in history. Oscar Soria One of the first famous filmmakers of Bolivia, this scriptwriter, writer and producer was from La Paz, where he was born in 1917. His style is one of the first examples of the Abstract and symbolic styles in Bolivia, and he became world-famous after his portrait Mis padres (My parents) was warmly praised by respected American art critic John Canaday. message from the creator of BoliviaBella.com. He was one of the first to build mines in Bolivia. She died on June 9, 2019 in La Paz, Bolivia. He moved to Bolivia at a very young age and has developed his entire artistic career in this country, debuting as a directors assistant and head of production for two movies by Eguino, another Bolivian director. Composer Vincenti remained in the country for some more years to continue his pioneering work in favor of Bolivian music, and is credited for composing and directing the first Opera work in Bolivia, the Elisir dAmore by Donizetti, presented in La Paz in 1847. During the first semester Cabrera had great performances in both, the domestic tournament and Copa Libertadores. Roberto Valcrcel An architect and visual communicator by education and painter by vocation, he was born in La Paz in 1951, and studied in Germany. Id like to study and be able to master the flamenco. A self-taught filmmaker, his initial short movies were shot with his own 8 mm. Verona Pooth was born on April 30, 1968 in La Paz, Bolivia. 1. To keep in shape mentally and physically he meditates and frequently rides the bike. He debuted with Sanjins decades ago and has participated in more than 10 national movies and two foreign movies. He was a singer first, and recorded half a dozen albums. She is a producer and actress, known for Web Therapy (2008), Web Therapy (2011) and 16-Love (2012). He died in 1953. She graduated from the Escuela de Bellas Artes in that city and later became a teacher and one of its directors. Examples include Humberto Saavedra and Rolando Barra. Then she moved to California, USA, to debut on the big screen in 2012 with a role on the movie The man who shook the hand of Vicente Fernandez. She has also starred in Bolivian movies, such as Los Andes no creen en Dios and the German-Bolivian movie Escrbeme postales a Copacabana. More recently, she has filmed Los Olvidados, which is also her first production, and married. He is best remembered for teaching calculus to students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles from 1974 to 1991. Paolo Agazzi Another of Bolivia's famous filmmakers, he is a director and producer of Italian origin. They have two sons, San Diego and Rocco Ernesto. List of famous people from Bolivia, including photos when available. Luis Alfredo Gavilano Luis Alfredo Gavilano was born in La Paz in 1964. In Uruguay he studied under Ramiro Agriel, in Miami, Florida under Jos Adan, and in Orlando, Florida under Eladio Scharron. She trained in fine arts in her native country and emigrated to Bolivia in the 1980s where she settled and still resides in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. If you're from Bolivia you might already know that these prominent figures are also from your hometown, but some of the names below may really surprise you. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Cecilio Guzmn de Rojas He is from Potos, where he was born in 1900. For his 50 years in cinema, he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cultura, the highest State-given arts award in the country, and received also an Honoris Causa doctoral degree as well as being paid a public homage by the Huelva Film Festival in Spain. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. He made a greater impact with his film El Cementerio de los Elefantes in 2007, which won a large number of awards nationwide and internationally, amongst them Best Film and Best Director at El Pasto Film Festival in Colombia, Best Actor at the Ibero-American Film Festival in Brazil and at the Hispano Film Festival in Orlando, and the Best International Director at the New York Independent Film Festival in 2009. Adolfo Costa du Rels A writer and diplomat, born in Sucre. Natasha Cuba was born in 1974 in La Paz, Bolivia. In her writing, she also used the pen-name Soledad. From 200609, Snchez managed the Bolivian national team, after having appeared as a player in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the countrys third participation. He also spent a couple of years in the Colombian Professional League with Ccuta Deportivo, Independiente Medelln, Deportivo Pasto and Deportes Tolima. Roberto Mamani Mamani, of Aymara origin, is the most known of Bolivia's famous artists. Whether you want to learn the history of a city, or you simply need a recommendation for your next meal, Discover Walks Team offers an ever-growing travel encyclopaedia. Because of his involvement as progressive journalist he has twice. In 1930s Bolivia, a powerful labor rights movement that upended all conventions of the times emerged. Indigenous actors and international actors, such as Geraldine Chaplin, have participated in his movies, making him one of Bolivia's most famous filmmakers. Pedro Blanco Soto (19 October 1795 1 January 1829) was President of Bolivia for just a week cut short by his assassination in a convent called La Recoletta in Sucre on New Years Day 1829. With her fair skin, green eyes, and flowing hair, actress Fredi Washington possessed all the traits needed to pass for white. She is the impact producer for "Try Evo Morales was born on October 26, 1959 in Isallavi, Orinoca, Bolivia. He is considered one of the best Latin American muralists of our times and seeing is believing. Stella Fernandez Born in the city of La Paz, he lived his entire life there, and the rough topography and harsh climate of this Andean city had a powerful effect on much of his work. Juan Pablo Richter was born on February 9, 1982 in Trinidad, Bolivia. He has Violeta Ayala is a Quechua filmmaker, writer, artist and technologist. The country has rased several generations of prominent writers, actors, models, sportsmen and philosophers. Avelino Nogales Born in Potosi in 1870, this painter learnt his trade at a private art school in Cochabamba, and specialized in portraiture later in Buenos Aires and Paris thanks to a scholarship. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. She was born on July 12, 1780 or 1781 in the town of Chuquisaca, Viceroyalty of the Ro de la Plata. The film Stand and Deliver is based on his life. That style of painting natives on oil, watercolour, tempura, etchings, etc., would be his trademark, and for that hed be defined as an indigenist painter. After polishing his art-restoration techniques further in the United Kingdom, he returned to his home city, where he was headmaster of the local School of Arts and Trades, founded a Museum and occasionally exposed his work in international galleries. She won the Simon Bolivar Medal for this achievement, and was named Minister of Culture by the current president, Evo Morales, staying in office for two years. Also known by his artist name: Lev Gabriel, he is a producer discovered thanks to his work with big names in the music industry as songwriter, His style of music is generally defined as pop and R&B, but he also hopes Eugen Gomringer was born on January 20, 1925 in Cachuela Esperanza, Bolivia. These include Miss Mundo Latina, which she won in Miami in 2003. He studied in the United States and made his debut with the movie Jonah and the Pink Whale which earned him the best script award from the Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano Foundation. He received Presidential Medal for Excellence in Education in 1988. Tales of a Nightmare and director, writer, producer, and actor of the celebrated mini-series El Hombre de La Luna and The Death of St Eulalia, a feature film, released in Bernardo Pea, Bolivian born actor, has acted in daytime soaps, Passions and The Young & The Restless, prime time series, Law & Order, Numb3rs and Southland. Renato is a writer, known for Real Time (2002), Chiles xalapeos (2008) and La noche con Orgalia (2000). Throughout his life, Senz struggled with alcoholism, a struggle about which he frequently wrote in his poems. But he himself debuted in the film industry in 1953 with a script for Jorge Sanjins documentary Voices from the Earth, which won an award at the Edinburgh and Montevideo film festivals. Lev Gabriel Arce Pea (born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia; September 16, 2001). Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, Simon Patino is historically the richest person who had ever been in Bolivia. Their show was one of the first to be broadcast in national television, and was on the air for seven years until young Travess sudden death backstage due to heart failure before a performance. She is one of the founders of the Manzana Uno Art Gallery which features famous artists from all over the world. Federico Zeballos (Tennis player) 6. He has also worked with other movie stars such as Maria Conchita Alonzo, Kate del Castillo, Christian Slater, Yvette Yates, Carla Ortiz, and TV Stars such as Eva Longoria, Guillermo Diaz, Judy Reyes, and Oscar Nunez. Rodrigo Ayala This director, scriptwriter and essayist was born in La Paz in 1964, and graduated from the San Andrs University first film workshops before completing his education in Miami. She works in abstracts with fluid lines even in the most bulky objects, in which she uses stones such as white onyx, granite and basalt. In Boston, she studied Marketing which she combined with some acting. Jorge Antonio Saavedra was born in 1950 in Beni, Bolivia. His work is characterised by its experimental, hyper-realistic and conceptual style, its strong color palette, and for the use of recycled materials, that he calls ephemeral art.. Senz was openly, unashamedly, bisexual. Her very first opportunity to work on television was in the soap opera "Corazones al lmite", playing Malka. Antonio Jos de Sucre was a Venezuelan political leader who served as the President of Peru from 23 June to 17 July 1823. Leopoldo Benedetto Vincenti An Italian-born composer from Rome, where he was born in 1815. She was a casting director, known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and Erin Brockovich (2000). Director: Rodrigo Bellott | Stars: Doug Porter, Eric Robles, Lorena Sugier, Arturo Lora Votes: 81 10. 11. Agents were looking for Native American talent and signed him Mara Rene Prudencio was born on October 28, 1974 in La Paz, Bolivia. Fernando Inchauste was born on June 18, 1930 in La Paz, Bolivia. Taking as basis the verses written by Sucre poet Jos Ignacio de Sanjins, he composed a lively music for what would be called Patriotic Anthem or Patriotic Song upon its debut in an act at Plaza Murillo in La Paz on November 18th 1845 (now Anthem Day in Bolivia). Ironically, his mother, who was also a rural teacher, accepted to home-school him. He also writes and publishes essays on theater acting. He died on October 8, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on June 7, 2021 in La Paz, Bolivia. Nilo Soruco Another of our famous musicians, and also a composer, born in Tarija in 1927. She is an editor and director, known for Robe of Gems (2022), Heli (2013) and Silent Light (2007). She also dedicates time to supporting philanthropy foundation Daniel Oporto. He has also worked as a casting director for an Argentine-Spanish movie about Che Guevara. She is an actress, usually known for playing unconventional roles on screen. One of the most beautiful women in Bolivia, Dominique Peltier was born in Cochabamba. Jessica Anne Jordan Burton is a politician and a former model. Hes also taken numerous other workshops, including some studies in Argentina and has also given concerts in these countries, in addition to traveling throughout Bolivia to do the same. She is considered the most famous Bolivian poet, and is credited as founding the country's feminist movement. Antonio Eguino A movie director born in La Paz in 1938. His literary work, which had a profound influence on the Bolivian social thought in the first half of the twentieth century, addresses issues related to national identity, miscegenation, and indigenous affairs. ngel Vctor Paz Estenssoro was a politician and president of Bolivia. When he was ten, after reading Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne and Jerry of the Islands by Jack London he promised and swore himself to become, some day, a writer. In concert he plays every piece by memory. Renato Prada Oropeza was born on October 17, 1937 in Potos, Bolivia. Diego Aroldo Cabrera Flores is a Bolivian football striker. He was a football player and a great trainer of the Bolivian national team. Marcos Loayza Born in La Paz in 1959, he wasn't studying film at all but Architecture, a major he put aside in order to study filmmaking and scriptwriting at the San Antonio de los Baos Film School in Cuba, where he had as mentors the distinguished French actor and scriptwriter Jean Claude Carrire and Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique. He was the one to start a great independence movement against Spain. During his five-year rule, Barrientos and the army suppressed all opposition to his conservative regime, including a guerrilla group lead by Che Guevara in 1967. She sustains that her paintings are inspired by her surroundings. He is currently working on a new film project. Mamani Mamani is instantly recognizable for his bright, colorful style with Andean subjects such as cholitas, condors and the moon. Shes worked as Director of Editing for Bolivian director Paolo Agazzi, and has been editing for international filmmakers such as Manni, Campion and Moffart. He was college-educated in the United States, and upon his return to his native land, he created a company dedicated to video and film production, and worked as a TV series and video director, also directing some short films occasionally. His style is undefined and continually changing. He is also a film critic for several national newspapers, and a writer, and has edited books on matters concerning the Southern Bolivian region of Tarija, his adoptive home. Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, Because his family emigrated to the United States when he was young, he has spent most of his career in that country, participating in Westerns, and later in theater, mini-series, and television movies. This list includes people who were born and raised in Bolivia, as well as those who were born there but moved away at a young age. Known for her roles in El juego de la silla (2012) and Keila y Keisy: La vaca (2012). scar Soria was born in 1917 in La Paz, Bolivia. His works are impossible to box him into one style and have ranged from Cubist to pop art. He was a student of Alfredo Bryce Ecgenique, Jean Claude Carriere and Jos Sanchis Siniestra. The following are some famous artists in Bolivia. Alfredo Ovando Canda Dec. at 63 (1918-1982) Birthplace: Cobija, Bolivia He established himself as an independent documentary and video-maker in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. message from the creator of BoliviaBella.com. Nilo Soruco Another of our famous musicians, and also a composer, born in Tarija in 1927. She was always the first to volunteer for plays and poetry readings - her mother is a playwright and poetry writer - and through all of her school years Elizabeth always got the main Eduardo Rzsa Flores was born on March 31, 1960 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Gustavo Snchez Salazar was born on July 10, 1928 in Totora, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. He also served as Vice-President to Andrs de Santa Cruz y Calahumana between 1835 and 1839. His composed mostly folkloric rhythms from Tarija, such as the cueca. He died on January 26, 2020 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. One of the most famous sportsmen in Bolivia is a mountain climber Bernando Guarachi. Simen Roncal A composer, musician and music teacher born in Sucre in 1870, he began as a child pianist taught by his own father, a musicologist, and then with a Spaniard piano instructor. Casting Department | These writers are among the most prominent in their field, and information about each well-known writer from Bolivia is included when available. 5 . 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