Roberto Vander
Encyclopedia
Roberto Vander is a province situated on the North Sea in the northwest part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is Haarlem and its largest city is Amsterdam.-Geography:...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
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) is a Dutch-actor and singer.
Biography
After living in different Latin AmericaLatin 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...
n countries such as Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
and Brasil he settled in Mexico in 1980 after being a guest in the popular musical show Siempre en Domingo with Raúl Velasco
Raúl Velasco
Raúl Velasco was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. For 30 years, he was the Mexican host/producer of the TV show Siempre en Domingo which is his hallmark contribution to the Latin American world and eventually to other parts of the world where Spanish entertainment programs are broadcast.Raúl...
where he presented his second album.
He toured for three years and was offered a role in the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Cuna de lobos
Cuna de lobos
Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico...
a soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
that would become one of the greatest successes of its network 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 later acted in Victoria and El precio de la fama. In the telenovela Senda de gloria ("Glorious path") he took the role of a Dutch-English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
villain and the opportunity to speak Dutch and English.
The success of Senda de gloria allowed him to obtain a role in Chilean telenovela Semidios produced by Universidad Católica de Chile's Canal 13
Canal 13 (Chile)
Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...
where he also sang the title song. For the same channel he made Bravo and returned to Mexico a year later to participate in a new version of Simplemente María
Simplemente Maria
Simplemente Maria ' is a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Manuel Saval, Jaime Garza and Silvia Derbez. The telenovela, a production of Valentín Pimstein , premiered on October 16, 1989 and ended on May 11, 1990 on El Canal de las Estrellas....
and in La pícara soñadora
La Pícara soñadora
La Pícara soñadora is a 1956 Argentine film....
, both soaps became hits in Latin America, Europe
Europe
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, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
and Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. In 1992, Van Der returned to Chile to participate in two telenovelas and back to Mexico in 1994 he made Caminos cruzados. In 1995 he returned to Chile to make two telenovelas and started his own company Roberto Vander Prod to facilitate the access of Chilean media to actresses like Alicia Machado
Alicia Machado
Yoseph Alicia Machado Fajardo is an actress, singer and former Miss Universe. She was the fourth woman from Venezuela to capture the Miss Universe crown.-Career:...
and other artists. In 1997 he participated in a telenovela with Televisa and next year he made Enséñame a querer with Venevisión
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...
, the most important television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
.
He was interviewed by Dutch network NCRV
NCRV
NCRV is a public radio and television broadcaster in the Netherlands, mostly transmitting on Nederland 1 and Nederland 2....
in February 1999 in a 25-minute presentation from his home in Chile. This interview was broadcasted on May 11 of the same year through the network Nederland 1
Nederland 1
Nederland 1 is the first national television station in the Netherlands, it was launched on 2 October 1951. It provides public broadcasting and currently exists next to sister channels Nederland 2 and 3. The several broadcasting organisations of the Publieke Omroep deliver programmes. A wide...
. The same year he made Por tu amor in Mexico and in 2000 he made Milagros in Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
. In 2002 and 2003 he made two telenovelas for Televisa and was awarded the Azteca de Oro ("Golden Aztec") as Best Actor for his role in Salomé
Salomé (telenovela)
Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired in 2001-2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.-Plot:The first part of the story takes part in the 1980s. Salomé, who was abandoned as a child by her mother, is a cabaret dancer who works at the cabaret Salón D'Rubí. Her best friend, Karicia,...
by the Asociación de Periodistas Mexicanos de Radio y Televisión ("Mexican association of radio and television journalists"). He made the new version of Rubí
Rubí
Rubí is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004. The plot is based on a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960's Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amor...
in 2004, this telenovela was considered as the best of the year and he was awarded El Sol de Oro ("Golden Sun") for his career and his role in this production and was nominated for the TVyNovelas
TVyNovelas
TVyNovelas is a Mexican magazine published by .Four international editions are also published: USA, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. It is considered the leader among showbusiness publications in Mexico, especially on the subject of telenovelas...
award as "Best Supporting Actor".
Chile
- Amores urbanos (2003)
- AdrenalinaAdrenalina- Personnel :* Marco Pedretti – lead vocals* Carmine Ruggiero – guitars, vocals* Stefano Mantegazza – bass, vocals* Danilo Calvio – drums, vocals...
(1996) as Gerardo Ahumada - Amor a domicilio (1995) as Guillermo Stone
- Doble juego (1993) as Patricio Corral
- Fácil de amar (1992) as Mario
- Bravo (1989) as Juan Pablo
- Semidiós (1988) as Hugo
- Infiltradas (2010) as octavio gangas
Telenovelas
- El TalismánEl TalismánEl Talismán is an upcoming 2012 telenovela co-produced by Venevision and Univision Studios, starring Blanca Soto and Rafael Novoa as the main protagonists, and Aarón Díaz and Lola Ponce as the main antagonists...
(2012) as Esteban Nájera - Los Herederos Del MonteLos Herederos Del MonteLos Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location....
(2010/2011) as Emilio del Monte / Pablo - Al Diablo con los GuaposAl Diablo con los GuaposAl Diablo con los Guapos is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the remake of the Argentinian super hit "Muñeca Brava" with Natalia Oreiro and Facundo Arana.-Plot:...
(2007/08) as Nestor Miranda - Destilando amorDestilando AmorDestilando Amor is a 2007 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Nicandro Díaz. It stars Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yáñez as the main protagonists and was set primarily in Tequila, Jalisco...
(2007) as Ricardo - El amor no tiene precioEl Amor No Tiene PrecioEl amor no tiene precio is a Mexican telenovela. It aired in 2005 until the series finale in 2006.-Plot:Maria Liz lives in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Gonzalez and her English grandfather, Henry Alexander. Maria Liz was 12 years old when her mother fell...
(2005) as Germán Garcés - RubíRubíRubí is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004. The plot is based on a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960's Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amor...
(2004) as Arturo De La Fuente - Velo de noviaVelo de noviaVelo de Novia was a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio Ortiz to Televisa in 2003. It starred Susana González and Eduardo Santamarina with the principal antagonist portrayed by Cynthia Klitbo and also starred as a primary actor Hector Suarez.-Plot:Andrea is a beautiful young woman eager to...
(2003) as Germán del Alamo - SaloméSalomé (telenovela)Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired in 2001-2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.-Plot:The first part of the story takes part in the 1980s. Salomé, who was abandoned as a child by her mother, is a cabaret dancer who works at the cabaret Salón D'Rubí. Her best friend, Karicia,...
(2001) as Mauricio Valdivia - Por tu amor (1999) as Don Nicolás Montalvo-Ariza Gallardo
- Sin ti (1998) as Guillermo
- Enséñame a querer (1998) as Rafael
- Caminos cruzados (1994) as Ambrosio
- La pícara soñadoraLa Pícara soñadoraLa Pícara soñadora is a 1956 Argentine film....
(1991) as Gregorio Rochild - Simplemente MaríaSimplemente MariaSimplemente Maria ' is a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Manuel Saval, Jaime Garza and Silvia Derbez. The telenovela, a production of Valentín Pimstein , premiered on October 16, 1989 and ended on May 11, 1990 on El Canal de las Estrellas....
(1989) as Rafael Hidalgo - Senda de gloria (1987) as James Van Hallen
- Victoria (1987) as Ray
- El precio de la fama (1987)
- Cuna de lobosCuna de lobosCuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico...
(1986) as Mr. Cifuentes
Peru
- Milagros (2000) as Benjamin Muñoz, Conde de Satana del Sol
External links
- Roberto Vander at the Telenovela database