Ricardo Darín

Ricardo Darín is an Argentine actor who began performing as a boy and moved from soap opera leading man to a central figure in Argentine cinema. Born in Buenos Aires, he made his stage debut at ten in a play with his parents, the actor Ricardo Darín Sr. and the actress Renée Roxana. He spent years in television series such as Alta Comedia and Estación Retiro, became popular in soap operas, especially Alberto Migre's productions, and scored a hit in the 1990s with the comedy Mi Cuñado (1993) opposite Luis Brandoni. Critics first singled out his film work in Perdido por Perdido (1993), Alberto Lecchi's directing debut. He went on to El Faro (1998), El Mismo Amor La Misma Lluvia (1999) and Nine Queens (2000), and played Rafael Belvedere in El Hijo de la Novia (2001), nominated for the foreign language Oscar in 2002. He appeared in plays such as Sugar, Taxi and Art, and directed films and plays.