Khotan Fernández in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, Distrito Federal, is a Mexican actor sometimes simply known as Khotan.

Early life

Khotan Fernandez was born in Mexico city, the son of Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian actress/singer Rosana Tapajos

Rosana Tapajos

Rosana Tapajos is a Brazilian actress and singer. As an actress, she appeared in films such as Pra Quem Fica, Tchau , in which she portrayed Maria, Se tutte le donne del mondo , and Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que É Uma Fera .-References:...

. While traveling on vacation to Careyes, Mexico, Khotan was called to model for L'Uomo magazine by renowned photographer Nadir

Nadir

The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface there. Since the concept of being below is itself somewhat vague, scientists define the nadir in more rigorous...

. This jump-started a modeling career which then led him to pursue acting. Some of his mentors include Sergio Jiménez

Sergio Jiménez

Sergio Jiménez , born in Mexico City, was a Mexican actor who became famous after portraying the character of El Gato in the film Los caifanes. His last work was directing the telenovela La fea más bella...

, Adriana Barraza

Adriana Barraza

Adriana Barraza is a Mexican film and television actress and director. She has also been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Broadcast Film Critics Association and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is also a veteran actress of Televisa telenovelas...

 and Helena Rojo

Helena Rojo

Helena Rojo is a leading Mexican film, theater and television actress.-Biography:She began her career as a model in the early-1960s. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renown Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 1968 in the film El club...

, a leading film, theater and television actress.

Career

His first important stint was in 1998, playing the role of "Mercurio" in "Mi pequeña traviesa" produced by Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

. He subsequently appeared in several soap operas playing "Ransel" in the "Preciosa","Humberto de Astolfi" in Amor Gitano and "Valentino" in Alma Rebelde. He then moved to Brazil to play "Pablo" in "Vale Todo", the first Soap opera produced by O Globo

O Globo

O Globo is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. O Globo is the most prominent print publication in the Marinho family's Brazilian media conglomerate....

 and Telemundo. Ecuavisa then offered him the lead role as "Alvaro Santos" in "Yo vendo unos ojos negros". In 2006 Khotan was back in Mexico for the role of "Sergio" in Corazón Partido, a Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 and Argos

Argos

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 telenovela, in the same year he also starred as "Caronte" in the movie El Cartel. Thereafter came his famous role as villain named "Angel" in another Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 serial, Dame Chocolate

Dame Chocolate

Dame Chocolate is a 2007 Spanish-language telenovela, which was produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and aired from March 5 until October 5, 2007. This limited-run serial stars Génesis Rodríguez as a sweet, simple girl who leaves rural Mexico for Miami to fulfill her...

with main locations in Miami. In 2009, he played the protagonistic role of David in TV Azteca

TV Azteca

Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...

's Eternamente Tuya, with Fernanda Romero and Marimar Vega. He is recently playing the role of aspiring singer "Rocky Paris" in the new Telemundo series Perro Amor

Perro Amor

Perro Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo that originally ran in the United States from January to July 2010....

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Personal life

Khotan was raised between Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. As a result, he speaks fluent Spanish

Spanish language

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, Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. Khotan studied at The Edron Academy in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 and entered The Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) of Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

, the most prestigious entertainment educational institution in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

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Currently Khotan is dating Candela Ferro

Candela Ferro

Candela Ferro is an Argentine journalist, model, and current host of Telemundo's Al Rojo Vivo: Fin de Semana con Candela Ferro and the E! Latin show "Mil Preguntas, Una Estrella con Candela Ferro " .-Early life:At an early age she realized she loved entertaining people, she would mimic Libertad...

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