Luis Alberto García

Luis Alberto García

Born: November 10, 1961
in Cuba
Luis Alberto García. Popular actor cubano con una de las carreras actorales más sólidas de Cuba en todos los tiempos. Desde su aparición en las pantallas y teatros, se ha convertido en uno de los más importantes y populares intérpretes escénicos. Graduado en 1984, del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), en la especialidad de Actuación.

Ha incursionado en todos los medios, y ha demostrado que puede dominar un amplio registro de estilos de actuación. Sus personajes van desde policías encubiertos hasta motoristas frustrados y ha navegado tanto por la interpretación lírica como por la comedia.

Su cercanía con otros campos como la pintura, la realización fílmica, la música y la literatura son ampliamente conocidas. Su espíritu inquieto le llevó a realizar uno de los documentales más completos que se le hayan dedicado al historiador de la Ciudad de la Habana Eusebio Leal Spengler. "Leal al Tiempo"

Movies for Luis Alberto García...

Los Frikis
Title: Los Frikis
Character: Mateo
Released: April 6, 2024
Type: Movie
Gustavo, who idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
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Le huitième étage, jours de révolte
Title: Le huitième étage, jours de révolte
Released: November 14, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: The Cry of the Butterflies
Character: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
Released: March 8, 2023
Type: TV
This series examines the events leading up the brutal murder of Dominican activist Minerva Mirabal and her two activist sisters, on the orders of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The heinous crime would set in motion not only the end of a vicious regime, but also come to mark the global fight against gender-based violence.
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Oscuros Amores
Title: Oscuros Amores
Character: Mendiondo
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Ricki travels to Cuba after many years to meet his girlfriend Beatriz, but she has changed a lot; Claudia, in a desperate search for money to buy a house, tries to scam a drug dealer; and Celina, a necrophiliac prepares to spend a weekend with a corpse.. Three dark love stories that, thanks to various unforeseen events, will intertwine until they become the revelation of the plot of a film that at the end of the story illuminates the drug dealer.
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Before the Ferry Arrives
Title: Before the Ferry Arrives
Released: October 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A portrait of Havana in the middle of the whirlwind of the post restoration of US-Cuba relations. An impasse of uncertainty and vertigo, a feeling of time standing still while future flies away.
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Ya no es antes
Title: Ya no es antes
Character: Esteban
Released: December 10, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of a couple during the stay in the apartment of one of them. During that time, both their emotional states will constantly change due to a love that has consumed them, the promises that have not yet been fulfilled, and the time that has passed and will not return.
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Title: Four Seasons in Havana
Character: Carlos 'El Flaco'
Released: December 9, 2016
Type: TV
As Havana slowly revolves through the year, wistful detective Mario Conde probes the sultry heart of the city to investigate dark and deadly crimes.
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Winds of Havana
Title: Winds of Havana
Character: Carlos 'El Flaco'
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
The killing of a fiery young teacher sets Detective Mario Conde on the trail of a drug kingpin with ties to the high school he once attended.
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Espejuelos oscuros
Title: Espejuelos oscuros
Released: December 12, 2015
Type: Movie
A blind woman living alone in the country tells tales to a criminal holding her captive to keep him calm.
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Viva
Title: Viva
Character: Mama
Released: November 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Jesús, a young hairdresser, works at a Havana nightclub for drag performers and dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesús finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when Angel, his estranged father recently released from a 15-year stint in prison, abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. The macho Angel tries to squash his son’s ambition to perform in drag. Father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, struggling to understand one another and reconcile as a family. Shot in a gritty neighborhood far from the Havana most tourists know, Viva is a heartrending story of music, performance, and survival.
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His Wedding Dress
Title: His Wedding Dress
Character: Ernesto
Released: December 6, 2014
Type: Movie
In 90's Habana, a nurse and a home builder, hopelessly in love, live happily married. A circumstantial fact of her past life will put their feelings to test and undermine the most elemental principles.
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Day of the Flowers
Title: Day of the Flowers
Character: Ernesto's Cousin - Camilo
Released: November 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.
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Boccaccerías Habaneras
Title: Boccaccerías Habaneras
Character: Guido
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.
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7 Days in Havana
Title: 7 Days in Havana
Character: Barman en Bar Silvia (segment "El Yuma")
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.
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Chronic Love
Title: Chronic Love
Released: March 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Amor Crónico follows Grammy-nominated, Cuban-born CuCu Diamantes as she embarks on a whirlwind tour of her home country. Interweaving glamorous live performances with a fictional romance, the film pays tribute to the history of cinema in surreal fashion. Backed by a high energy Latin soundtrack, Cucu's journey is a visual love poem to the sites, sounds, and people of Cuba.
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Juan of the Dead
Title: Juan of the Dead
Character: Padre De Niño
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones."
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Habanastation
Title: Habanastation
Character: Pepe Arlay
Released: August 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Directed mainly for kids, the film speaks of a Havana that reveals two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids.
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Aché
Title: Aché
Character: Nicanor
Released: December 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Havana, 1974. Almost every day, Ana puts a cuban flag on the balcony. The flag is faded and full of stains. Ana suggests to her husband Nicanor to get another one. From there the couple will be doomed to unexpected complications...
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Chamaco
Title: Chamaco
Character: Saúl Alter
Released: February 23, 2010
Type: Movie
When a young man is killed in Central Park in La Habana, a series of coincidences reveals that many of the night walkers that hang around the park are related to the crime.
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Club Habana
Title: Club Habana
Character: Barman
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Barbara is about to travel to Spain for an exhibition of her paintings. The night before starting her journey there is a hurricane and she has to stay in a nightclub until the morning. During the night she comes into contact with different people who have a variety of conflicts and interests. She is drawn into this microcosm which seems to be a reflection of Cuban society today.
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Cerro de la cruz
Title: Cerro de la cruz
Character: Hernán 1
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
A young revolutionary on the verge of death finds himself trapped in his desires for love. His feelings in the midst of war are clarified when he discovers that he wants to love and be loved by another man. This short film questions the notions of hatred that arise in homophobic coexistence.
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Che: Part One
Title: Che: Part One
Character: Colonel Joaquín Casillas Lumpuy
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Madrigal
Title: Madrigal
Character: Angel
Released: March 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
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Viva Cuba
Title: Viva Cuba
Character: Espeleolog (voice)
Released: April 20, 2005
Type: Movie
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),
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Love by Mistake
Title: Love by Mistake
Character: Julio
Released: March 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Julio del Toro is a successful writer in his fifties, who has always had his life under his control, until the day that, returning from one of his frequent foreign travel, this consistent world will fall into crisis. His daughter has started an affair with a Spanish older than him, his mistress poses a serious ultimatum, a young journalist begins to prepare a report on his work, and he faces the question if he is already finished as a creator. While Julio feels increasingly confused and disoriented, the women around him will make the decisions that he is not able to take.
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Hitting Bottom
Title: Hitting Bottom
Character: Andy Cardoso
Released: April 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Juan Gutiérrez, 44, an electrician, has been unemployed for a long time. He decides to leave his family to go find work in Madrid, believing that in the big city the opportunities will be greater. Once there, he discovers that things are not as he believed. He is an electrician. He doesn't want to clean windshields at stoplights or clean cabarets at dawn. He wants to work as an electrician. Occasionally she meets Andy, a Caribbean mulatto who boasts bulletproof optimism. With his sharp wit, he manages as best he can, trying not to be found by the immigration authorities. Despite the distances, "Gallego" and "Sudaca" become friends.
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Things I Left in Havana
Title: Things I Left in Havana
Character: Bárbaro
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Three sisters leave Cuba in search of a better life in Madrid. While there, they encounter, among other things, other Cuban expatriates.
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Mambí
Title: Mambí
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Zafiros, Locura Azul
Title: Zafiros, Locura Azul
Character: Miguelito
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Demasiado caliente para ti
Title: Demasiado caliente para ti
Character: Héctor
Released: August 23, 1996
Type: Movie
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Guantanamera
Title: Guantanamera
Character: Tony
Released: September 3, 1995
Type: Movie
During the 'Special Period', the members of a funeral procession cross paths with truckdrivers who have to take the same route, and begin to talk about God and the world. They discover that life for both groups has many similarities, as well as a lot of differences.
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The Elephant and The Bicycle
Title: The Elephant and The Bicycle
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: Movie
After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destroyed, and the people plan to overthrow Gavilán.
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Adorables mentiras
Title: Adorables mentiras
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Jose Luis, a young boy with aspirations to become a scriptwriter and director of cinema, is dazzled on having known the beautiful Sissy. To impress her, he appears as the director who looks for a not professional actress. She, that the whole life has dreamed of being 'discovered' but that it is not naive with men, pretends not to be interested. They begin a relationship in wich both are not as they wanted to be.
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Clandestinos
Title: Clandestinos
Released: July 24, 1987
Type: Movie
In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press publishes pamphlets meant to stir up rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As their popularity grows, so, too, does their revolutionary zeal and their desire to mobilize other urban guerilla units.
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Pure Blood
Title: Pure Blood
Character: Adolfo
Released: May 11, 1982
Type: Movie
Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it.
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The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
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A Cuban Fight Against Demons
Title: A Cuban Fight Against Demons
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
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Malecón
Title: Malecón
Character: Elvis's stepfather
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After a tragic incident in which he kills his abusive stepfather, Elvis is sent to prison and separated from his childhood sweetheart, Yuli. Once released he is dragged into the sordid world of prostitution in Cuba and faces a critical decision: fight to win back Yuli's love or flee to the United States and start a new life.