Miami, United States. – Cuban actor Félix Pérez Ortiz, National Television Award 2019, died in Havana at age 89, as confirmed on social networks the Caricatos agency and the Havana Theater Center, among other sources. After six decades of artistic career, the actor consecrated himself as an emblematic figure of Cuban theater, cinema and television.
“His physical departure adds in mourning to Cuban culture, which loses with him one of his most outstanding defenders,” The Caricatos agency published on Facebook. For its part, the Havana Theater Center He described it As a “glory of national culture” and recalled that “his death, without a doubt, leaves a deep mark on the Cuban cultural landscape.”
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Pérez Ortiz began his artistic life in the 60s as a member of the Association of Young Rebel, where he was responsible for Culture. He joined the theater group Santiago, to the dramatic team of the East, and was one of the founders of the Dramatic Art Academy under the direction of Argentine Adolfo Gutkin. In the theatrical field he participated in works such as The fox and grapes, An inspector has arrived, The Queen of Bachiche and The blacksmith and the devil.
His television career was extensive and prolific. He is remembered for his performances in popular dramatized spaces such as In silence it has had to be, Julito the fisherman, The botija, The echo of the stones and Santa María del Porvenir. One of his last works on the screen was in the series Of love and hope.
In the cinema, he participated in emblematic films such as The first load to the machete, Havana Blues and Bennyas well as in several international co -productions. In addition to his work as an actor, he served as a professor of generations of artists in the specialties of action, phrase and narration.

Pérez Ortiz was also vice president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in Santiago de Cuba and worked as a cultural head of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the peoples. In 1976, the island regime sent him to Angola to collaborate in cultural promotion.
Throughout his career, he received numerous awards such as the National Television Award (2019) and the Act Award for the Work of Life (2018). He was also declared an artist of Merit of ICRT.