Cuban actor Félix Pérez, remembered for its interpretations in television series, as well as roles in cinematographic productions, He died in Havana at 88 years of age, As the Caricatos agency reports on Tuesday.
“Pérez belonged to a generation of actors completely delivered to acting in theater, cinema and television,” recalls the Havana Theater Center, from Facebook.
Member of the National Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC), their work is underlined today in productions such as In silence it has had to be, Julito the fisherman, The botija, The echo of the stones and Santa María del Porvenir.
His television work forms the “testimony of a glorious stage in artistic interpretation,” says the Havana Theater Center, from where it is underlined that “his death, without a doubt, leaves a Deep footprint in the Cuban cultural landscape. ”
Born in Santiago de Cuba, in August 1936, Félix Pérez began his acting life in 1961 with childly knowledge of action, but with immense desires of achieving it, something that owes Jesus “Chucho” Cabrera, whom he recognized as a “father” in labor matters, as remembered in The web of Cuban television.
The Directorate of Culture of Havana pointed out that In the same year 61 joined the theater group Santiago, led by Argentine Jaime Svensky, and worked simultaneously on CMKC radio, in dramatized programs.
He is one of the founders of the Dramatic Art Academy, directed by the Argentine Adolfo Gutkin. In 1963, the dramatic set of the East, and with the arrival of television to its province, under the direction of Cabrera, to the group of actors of the dramatic team, points the same source.
His wide histrionic possibilities allowed him to venture into theater, cinema and televisionrecognizing this last medium as the one he liked best. In this regard he said: “… I like it more because it demands more, it gave me the possibility of transforming me into several characters and that people always love me. That is something that I thank television.”
Of their work for the cinema stand out the performances in The first load to the machete, Between cyclones, Havana Blues and Benny.
He deserved prizes such as Caracol, for his brilliant performances in soap operas and serials; The Act Award for the work of Life 2018, and the 2019 National Television Award, as Caricatos recalls.
