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Jorge Perugorría
Highest Rated: 80% Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
Lowest Rated: 40% 7 Days in Havana (2012)
Birthday: Aug 13, 1965
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
One of Cuba's greatest cultural exports, Jorge Perugorria caught worldwide attention with his first feature film, "Strawberry and Chocolate" (1993), and went onto become a fixture of Spanish-language cinema both as an actor and director. Born in Wajay, Havana in 1965, Perugorria studied civil engineering before switching his attention to the theater world where he spent the next decade treading the boards in various productions. Perugorria made an instant impression when he made the leap into cinema, delivering a captivating performance as Diego, a gay bohemian who falls in love with a straight communist, in the Oscar-nominated "Strawberry and Chocolate" (1993). Two years later, Perugorria teamed up with Tomas Gutierrez Alea once again on the director's final film, the ensemble comedy, "Guantanamera" (1995) and from then on, never left the big screen. Showcasing his versatility, Perugorria played young mayor Edipo in modern Greek tragedy "Oedipo alcalde" (1996), sadist Furio in controversial erotic melodrama "Bambola" (1996) and Spanish painter Francisco Goya in the lavish "Volaverunt" (1999), and before the turn of the century had also added interweaving drama "Clandestine Stories in Havana" (1997), immigrant tale "Things I Left in Havana" (1997), and sex farce "Amor vertical" (1997) to his resume. After playing a wealthy man convinced he's being stalked in existential drama "Turbulence" (2000), 19th Century explorer Julius Popper in historical epic "Tierra del fuego" (2000) and a Cuban exile searching for his true parentage in touching drama "Honey for Oshun" (2001), Perugorria took the director's chair for "Habana abierta" (2003), a documentary about the Cuban band of the same name. The weighty roles continued to pour in, including a German farmer who falls in love with a former slave in "Scent of Oak" (2004), a murderous senator in "Hormigas en la boca" (2005) and a human trafficker in "Una rosa de Francia" (2006), while Steven Soderbergh then utilized his talents to play real-life revolutionary Juan Vitalo Acuna in his two-part biopic "Che" (2008). Perugorria then reunited with his first co-star Vladimir Cruz to co-direct psychodrama "Afinidades" (2010) before taking full control on "Amor cronico" (2012), a part-tour diary/part fictional romance starring Cuban singer Cucu Diamantes, and black comedy "Se Vende" (2012). After landing his first recurring TV role as the titular undertaker who helps people to fake their own deaths in "Lynch" (Moviecity, 2012-), Perugorria helmed "Fatima" (2014), the story of a gay transvestite prostitute, and its 2015 sequel, played a boxer father who reconnects with his drag performer son in "Viva" (2015) and took on the role of Detective Mario Conde in the adaptation of "Vientos de cuaresma" (2016).
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Los Frikis | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ¿Vienes o Voy? | Ariel Vega (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Divine Intervention | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Havana Kyrie | Lucas (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Is Beltza | Sargento Bravo (Voice) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kimura | Manfredo (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Vientos de La Habana | Teniente Mario Conde (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Circus Story & a Love Song | Juan (Character) | - | 2016 |
80% |
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Viva | Angel (Character) | $177.1K | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | His Wedding Dress | Lazaro (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wall of Words |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 2014 |
63% |
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Return to Ithaca | Eddy (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Sale |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amor crónico |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 2012 |
40% |
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7 Days in Havana | Daniel (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hostias | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chronic Love |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Edificio Royal | Justo (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Ticket to Paradise | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boleto al paraíso | Rensoli (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Affinities |
Néstor (Character), Director |
- | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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La Mala | Lazaro (Character) | - | 2008 |
67% |
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Che: Part One | Joaquin (Character) | $1.7M | 2008 |
79% |
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Che: Part Two | Joaquin (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Che | Joaquin (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Horn of Plenty | Bernardito (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Óscar: The Color of Destiny | Román (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night of the Innocents | Frank (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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The Heart of the Earth | Alcalde (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Virgin Rose | Simon (Character) | - | 2006 |
45% |
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Queens | César (Character) | $139.4K | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Ants in the Mouth | Freddy (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frutas en el café | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Barrio Cuba | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Caribe | Vicente Vallejo (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tánger | Abdul (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nowhere | Pedro Riquelme (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Scent of Oak | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rancour | Toni (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Honey for Oshun | Roberto (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vajont: La diga del disonore | Olmo Montaner (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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The Waiting List | Ciego (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tierra del Fuego | Julius Popper (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | By My Side Again | Joao (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Volaverunt | Francisco Goya (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doña Bárbara | Santos Luzardo (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Things I Left in Havana | Igor (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vertical Love | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life According to Muriel | Ernesto (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Un asunto privado | Alejandro (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Edipo alcalde | Edipo (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mayor Oedipus | Edipo (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bámbola | Furio (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cachito | Manolo (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dile a Laura Que la Quiero | Jorge (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Affair | Alejandro (Character) | - | 1995 |
80% |
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Guantanamera | Mariano (Character) | $899.0K | 1994 |
80% |
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Strawberry and Chocolate | Diego (Character) | $268.8K | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Derecho de asilo | Unknown (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bigas x Bigas | Self | - |