Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez

He lives in Santa Fe, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana, with his wife Elsa Maria Fuentes de La Paz and their four children.

• Name — Jorge Perugorría • Born — 13 August 1965 • Birthplace — Wajay, Havana, Cuba • Citizenship — * Cuba • Spain • Occupation — * Actor • film director • painter • Website — http: www.jorgeperugorria.com/ • Other Names — Pichi

Perrugorría studied civil engineering until he turned to theater. He played Shakespeare with the Olga Alonso troupe, and starred in The Glass Menagerie with the Ritan Mountainer troupe. In the early 1990s, Perugorría helped found Havana’s Public Theatre, which started with Jean Genet’s The Maids. In this play, Perugorría acted the difficult part of Clara, working on a real gestural dimension for this feminine character. This led to his first opportunity in cinema. Perugorría has played in several TV series or short films, but his first cinema success was Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), in which he played the part of Diego, a gay young man who meets a straight university student named David. The movie, subtly dealing with tolerance and sexual politics, made Perugorría recognizable as one of Cuba’s most famous actors. He has since acted in nearly 50 films, including Boceto directed by Tomás Piard and Derecho de asilo by Octavio Cortázar. He has also appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s Che, and directed and acted in Se vende (For Sale), a black comedy about the selling of bones of dead people. He portrays Cuban police detective Conde in Four Seasons in Havana, a Netflix series based on the novels of Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. It is a Spanish production by Tornesol.

• 2003: Habana abierta • 2005: Santiago y la Virgen en la Fiesta del Fuego (documentary short) • 2010: Afinidades • 2012: Amor crónico • 2012: Se vende • 2015: Fátima o el Parque de la Fraternidad

Since 2005, Jorge Perugorría has been one of the patrons of DreamAgo, an international screenwriters association.

Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez is recorded as film director, actor, painter, sculptor and artist.