Alfredo Castro
Birthday: Born in 1955-12-19 in Recoleta, Santiago, Chile
Deathday: Alive
Alfredo Castro Gómez (Santiago, 19 de diciembre de 1955) is a Chilean actor. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Acting from Universidad de Chile. Presently, he works as a theatre director, actor, pedagogue, playwright, and founder of Teatro La Memoria, a theatre company that marks a milestone in the history of contemporary Chilean theatre. In 2006, the company founded the Centro de Investigación Teatral (Center for Theatrical Investigation) and the Sala de Teatro: Teatro La Memoria (anintimate 100-seat playhouse). As an actor and screenwriter, Alfredo Castro Gómez has participated in several films by Chilean director Pablo Larraín. These have included: Fuga (2006), Tony Manero (2008), and Post Mortem (2010)
TV Credits
Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency....
Volver a empezar
Character: Pedro Pablo Oroz
A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son....
Poder & verdad
Character: Self
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Los mil días de allende
Character: Salvador Allende
The story of the Salvador Allende, former president of Chile, from his presidential campaign to the day of his death on 11 September 1973. Part of the special programming for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup....
El Refugio
Character: Leonardo
A family experiences strange circumstances while being faced with an apparent alien invasion. With their screens as their only source of information, ex-spouses must protect their children from an invisible enemy they don't even know exists....
Ecos del desierto
Character: Colonel Arturo Rivera
Carmen spends 40 years of her life seeking for justice after the murder of her husband....
Amor a domicilio
Character: Romeo Ulloa
The adventures and misadventures of the young people who work in a Pizza Shop as deliverymen. Those in charge of making this pizza place work are idealists and dreamers, but from different worlds and opposite personalities, which will make their work and personal relationships constantly clash....
Iorana
Character: Luciano Cox
Cristian is in love with the beautiful "pascuense" Vaitea, but external interests interpose between them....
La fiera
Character: Ernesto Lizana
Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married....
El circo de las Montini
Character: César Mondaca
A circus family must face a new season of performances, under the risk that this may be their last tour....
Los exitosos Pells
Character: Guido Wedell
A failed theater teacher has a chance for success by impersonating Martin Pells, Chile's most famous and influential TV announcer....
Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor
Character: Marcelo
Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure....
Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor
Character: Rolando
Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure....
En terapia
Character: Gabriel Montes
Follows the development of five psychological patients through nine sessions each....
Martín, el hombre y la leyenda
Character: Lucio Hernández
The life story of Chile's most important boxer, Martín Vargas....
Pampa Ilusión
Character: Eulogio Martínez
The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis....
La Jauría
Character: Alejandro Petersen
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender....
JPT: Justicia para todos
Character: Pablo
The activites of two lawyers and their work in different positions of the New Chilean Procedural Reform....
Prófugos
Character: Freddy Ferragut
Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile....
Los Pincheira
Character: Floridor Carmona
Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father....
Narcos
Character: Abel Escobar
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels....
Bala Loca
Character: Eugenio Aldunate
A veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously....
Una historia necesaria
Character: Max Santelices
Anthology series based on true stories about the disappeared detainees and their families during Pinochet's military dictatorship....
Floribella
Character: Baron Franz von Mayerlitz
A 20-year-old girl with a deep passion for music will radically change her life when she finds work at the Fritzenwalden family home as an assistant to Governess Greta, who is in charge of six children who have just lost their parents. What she does not know is that in this house she will aslo discover true love....
Floribella
Character: Wolfgang von Mayerlitz
A 20-year-old girl with a deep passion for music will radically change her life when she finds work at the Fritzenwalden family home as an assistant to Governess Greta, who is in charge of six children who have just lost their parents. What she does not know is that in this house she will aslo discover true love....
Vivir así
Character: Ito Orsini
A hard-working man witnesses the collapse of his nuclear family....
Corazón de María
Character: Wladimir Tapia
Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life....
Romané
Character: Lazlo California
A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past....
Manuel Rodríguez
Character: Governor Casimiro Marcó del Pont
During the years of the Spanish Reconquest, Manuel Rodríguez is a wanted man in Chile. His head already has a price and he's considered a legend among many. But it's his love for Francisca, a noble woman, what will make him take all kinds of risks, regardless of the differences that separate them. From then on, Rodríguez will fight both for the freedom of his homeland and for the love of his life, Francisca....
Adrenalina
Character: Efraín Domínguez
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Movie Credits
Tony Manero
Character: Raúl Peralta
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever"....
Cien años de Mónica
Character: Voz en Off
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The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future
Character: Enrique
A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch....
The Substitute
Character: El Chileno
Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin....
The Settlers
Character: Menéndez
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia....
Post Mortem
Character: Mario Cornejo
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears....
It Was the Son
Character: Busu
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door....
No
Character: Lucho Guzmán
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the ...
Dog Flesh
Character: Evangelical Pastor
Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past....
A Ravaging Wind
Character: Reverendo Pearson
Gripped by the blind faith of her father, Reverend Pearson, Leni accompanies him on his evangelical mission. A banal accident forces them to stop at El Gringo's garage. When the Reverend becomes obssessed with saving the soul of Chango, the mechanic's son, Leni realises the time has come to take her fate into her own hands....
Sayen: Desert Road
Character: Salazar
Sayen follows a lead to the picturesque desolation of the Atacama Desert. There, she reluctantly teams up with a young Atacameño girl, Quimal, looking to clear her father’s name and save her town from becoming an arid wasteland due to Acteon’s exploitative water usage....
El Conde
Character: Fyodor
After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite....
Up to the World
Character: Lucho
Davide and Loris are brothers and live in a very small village in the north of Italy. While Davide is eighteen years old and gay, Loris is almost thirty and doesn't know anything about his brother's sexuality....
The Dog Thief
Character: Sr. Novoa
Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to find his father. Driven by this desire and his imagination, Martin begins to suspect that one of his best clients is his father; Mr Novoa, a lonely tailor whose only emotional bond is his dog, Astor, a fine German shepherd whom he cares for like a son....
Casa de remolienda
Character: Renato
Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married....
The Quispe Girls
Character: Fernando
Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end....
They Will Be Dust
Character: Flavio
After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association....
The Club
Character: Father Vidal
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings....
La California
Character: Allende
Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions....
From Afar
Character: Armando
Examines the struggles of a man petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, cruises young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets 17-year-old Elder, leader of a small band of thugs. Their turbulent relationship will come to mimic the violent, passionate, oppressive unpredictability of the city around them....
City of Dreams
Character: El Jefe
A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA....
Sayen: The Huntress
Character: Alfredo Castro
Realizing that she cannot take down Fisk alone, Sayen teams up with an underground resistance group with a plan to expose and end Fisk's unchecked plundering once and for all....
Neruda
Character: Gabriel González Videla
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground....
Amanece en Samaná
Character:
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Black Island
Character: Guillermo
In their comfortable beach house, Guillermo and his assistant Carmen spend the weekend together before starting a real estate project at the Isla Negra resort. Their peaceful weekend is disrupted when a woman, her husband, and her sick father arrive at their home. From the moment this family arrives, the routine becomes increasingly tense, leading to a confrontation that will reveal deep political and social differences between the two conflicting worlds....
The Summit
Character: Desiderio Garcia
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons....
Los perros
Character: Juan
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past....
Severina
Character: Otto Blanco
A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In th...
11 Habitaciones en Antártica
Character:
Leo Quinteros music is the base to this film in which filmmakers, actors and actresses and other creators reunite in different hotel rooms....
Museo
Character: Dr. Núñez
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act....
Rojo
Character: Detective Sinclair
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant....
The Good Life
Character: Jorge
In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted....
La Isla de los Pájaros Sombra
Character: (voice)
In his travels through the southern sea of Chile, the privateer Francis Drake discovered a strange island. The extraordinary events that he lived there described in his travel diary have disappeared just like the island....
Medea
Character: Truck Driver
Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, she invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female gender....
Some Beasts
Character: Antonio
A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides....
The Prince
Character: El Potro
Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison....
Fuga
Character: Claudio Leal
Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music....
Ventana
Character:
Five strangers meet on the beach of Ventanas, where the ocean merges with the industrial waste from the area....
Secrets
Character:
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed....
Perro bomba
Character: Boss
A young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment....
White on White
Character: Pedro
In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous....
My Tender Matador
Character: La Loca del Frente
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship....
Karnawal
Character: 'Corto'
During a carnival, near the border between Argentina and Bolivia, a young Malambo dancer prepares for the most important competition of his life. When his ex-felon father returns, he jeopardizes everything by dragging his son into the criminal world....
Dusk Stone
Character:
Greta and Bruno, her husband, struggle with grief after the disappearance of their son. Their friend Sina travels to the coast to help them sell their summer house....
Aurora
Character: Journal Owner
After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial....
Doctor Chance
Character: Wasted's Boss
Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Chile. - IFFR...
Verlust
Character: Constantin
Isolated on the beach, the powerful business woman Frederica prepares an awaited New Year`s party. In the middle of a marriage crisis with photographer Constantin, which affects directly her teenage daughter, she has to manage her life and the career of pop icon Lenny, who decided to write a mysterious work alongside writer João Wommer. When a strange creature appears from the bottom of the sea, the crisis takes place in the web of affections, and Frederica will have to face her biggest fear: lo...
The Consequences
Character:
Since Fabiola saw her husband die in a diving accident, nothing has been the same again. Tired of not getting better, she decides to self-prescribe an unconventional therapy: together with her dad and her teenage daughter, she travels to a house her family owns in a small volcanic island. During this time of coexistence, each of them tries to protect their own privacy, and to safeguard their secrets. But all this secrecy triggers Fabiola’s paranoia. She has neither evidence nor certainty, but s...
Immersion
Character: Ricardo
A father and his two daughters are sailing in a lake when they encounter a pair of shipwrecked men. They say to be looking for someone they lost and ask for help to find him. This begins a tense search in which the father suspects he is held hostage....