Re: And just for the record, Mexicans and Spainiards are two different people. The actors in the Mexican novellas may look European/Spanish; however, the majority of the population is either Meztiso..half Indian/half Spanish.....or full Indian.
Antonio Banderas
Actor
(1960- )
José Antonio Domínquez Banderas was born on the 8th October 1960 in Benalmádena (Málaga province [SPAIN]). After school, Antonio went on to study drama. Then, aged 19, he went to Madrid to seek his fortune with just 15.000 pesetas [~$115] in his pocket.
By luck, he met the acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar and had his first film break, appearing in Laberinto de Pasiones alongside Imanol Arias.
Banderas soon became a regular in Almodóvar's films, including Requiem (1985), where he played a Spanish farmer, La Corte de Faraón and Caso Cerrado (1986) when he won the Fotogramas prize for the Best Actor. In 1985, he appeared in another Almodóvar film Matador, with was similarly successful.
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In January 1991 the actor moved to Los Angeles to film the Kings of Mambo, directed by Arnold Lincher and based on the book by Pulitzer prize author Oscar Hijuelos. This was followed in 1992 by 'Philadelphia' where Banderas played the homosexual lover of Tom Hanks.
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