Kuno Becker
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Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz (born January 14, 1978) is a Mexican actor who has worked in telenovelas, the cinema of Mexico and the United States, but is best known for his portrayal of Santiago Muñez in the football movie Goal!
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Music career
Becker was born, on 14th Janurary in Mexico City to Kuno Becker and Maria del Rocío Bebbie Paz Felix; his paternal grandfather was a rich businessmen and his maternal grandfather was Spanish, while both of his grandmothers are Mexican.[1] He has two siblings, Gunther and Karine. Becker's career as an artist began at an early age, although not as an actor but as a musician. When he was six years old, he intended to become a professional violinist. After obtaining a scholarship, he travelled to Europe and began his studies in the famous Mozarteum of the city of Salzburg, Austria, where he spent several years studying the violin with internationally famous teachers such as Denes Zsigmondi and Rugiero Ricci.
[edit] Acting career
At seventeen, however, Kuno made the decision to set aside his career as a violinist, in order to pursue what he now considers his greater passion, acting. He auditioned with more than 3,200 candidates, and was accepted as a student at the Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) of Televisa.
At the age of nineteen, after two years of drama studies, he obtained his first rôle in the telenovela Para Toda la Vida, with which he stayed for 120 episodes. He later participated in the telenovelas Pueblo Chico, Infierno Grande (with Verónica Castro and directed by José Alberto Castro), El Alma no Tiene Color (directed by Juan Osorio) Desencuentro (directed by Ernesto Alonso), Rencor Apacionado (directed by Lucero Suárez), Camila (directed byAngelli Nesma) and Soñadoras. In April 2000 Becker concluded the recording of the telenovela Mujeres Engañadas, his first lead rôle.
In addition to his work in television, Becker has participated in some plays with Televisa. In 1998 he worked in the musical comedy En Roma el Amor es Broma. At the time he was appearing in the telenovela Soñadoras, Becker toured several Mexican cities with his one-man show Culpas Prohibidas. In only a few years and thanks to the Televisa's high profile in Mexico, he has become one of the best-known young actors.
In the cinema he provided the voice of Cale in the Spanish-dubbing of the film Titan A.E., and also appeared in the 1997 film La Primera Noche. In 2002 Becker starred in the film La hija del caníbal (Lucía, Lucía) opposite the Argentine actress Cecilia Roth, and in 2005 he played the lead role of Santiago Munez for the film Goal!. Becker has said that now he wishes to concentrate solely on his film career, and is looking for new opportunities not only in Mexican films, but also internationally. Becker is to star in a historical Kazakhstani epic Nomad filmed in 2004. The production took two years to make and is scheduled to screen in 2006.
[edit] Films
- Goal! 3 (2008) as Santiago Munez
- Goal! 2 (2007) as Santiago Munez
- Nomad (2006) as Mansur
- Goal! (2005) as Santiago Munez
- Isla Bella aka Once Upon a Wedding (2005) as Rogelio
- Imagining Argentina (2003) as Gustavo Santos
- La hija del caníbal aka Lucía, Lucía (2003) as Adrián
- English as a Second Language (2005) as Bolivar De La Cruz
- La primera noche (1998) as battered kid
[edit] Plays
- En Roma el amor es broma (1999)
- Culpas prohibidas (1998)
[edit] Television
- Primer amor... a mil por hora (2000) as León
- Mujeres engañadas (1999) as César Martínez
- Camila (1998) as Julio
- Rencor apasionado (1998) as Pablo
- Soñadoras (1998) as Ruben Barraisaba
- El privilegio de amar (1998)
- El alma no tiene color (1997) as Juan José
- Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1997) as Emilio young
- Desencuentro (1997) as David
- Te sigo amando (1997) as Humberto
- Para toda la vida (1996) as Eduardo
[edit] Trivia
- Kuno Becker's character from the Goal! trilogy, Santiago Muñez, has a profile on the footballing community Joga.com.
