Arturo Ríos

Mexican actor

Arturo Ríos
Born	Arturo Lorenzo Ríos Caldelas Mexico City, Mexico
Alma mater	Instituto de Arte Dramático Andrés Soler (1973-1975)
Occupation	Actor

Arturo Ríos is a Mexican actor.

Career

Rios is largely a theatrical actor, but has also starred in films and on television.

He won the Ariel Award for Best Actor for his performance in the movie Fairy Tales for Sleeping Crocodiles, taking another Best Actor nomination for Desiertos mares.^[1]

In theater he has participated in more than 80 works and has won two awards as best actor: one for El otra exilo and the other for Devastated. He has been an actor of the National Theater Company and the Theater Experimentation Center (INBA).^[2] He was the founder of the Taller del Sótano theater group and is part of Por Piedad Teatro. He has also worked with Shadow Line Theater and Arena Theater. He has been a FONCA Fellow twice, first for playing Richard II in the Shakespeare play, and second as a Scenic Creator with Outstanding Career for the works "The Lesson" by Ionesco, "Shakespeare: his Invention" by Arturo Ríos, and "The Golden Dragon", by Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Filmography

Telenovelas

Educando a Nina (2018) as José Peralta
La candidata (2017) as Fernando Escalante
El alma herida (2003-2004) as Marcial
Gitanas (2004) as Drago
El sexo débil (2011) as Agustín Camacho

Television

El vuelo del águila (1994) as Ignacio de la Torre y Mier
Al norte del corazón (1997)
Yacaranday (1998) as Omar
Tentaciones (1998) as Javier
Cuentos para solitarios (1999)
The House of Flowers (2018) as Ernesto De La Mora

Films

Ríos has starred in films including:^[1]^[3]^[4]

Fantoche (1977) as Félix
Sólo con Tu Pareja (1991) as Singer in nightmare sequence
Desiertos mares (1995) as Juan Aguirre
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman (1996) as Adrián.
De ida y vuelta (2000)
Y Tu Mamá También as Esteban Morelos
Cuentos de hadas para dormir cocodrilos (2002) as Archangel and Archangel Miguel
Ópera (2007) as Pablo
Cementerio de papel (2007) as Hugo
Insignificant Things (2008) as Tomás
Eddie Reynolds y los ángeles de acero (2014) as Santos
Apapacho: una caricia al alma (2018) as George

Theatre

His latest roles include:

Old Times
The End, a monologue by Samuel Beckett^[2]
Hamlet

References

^ ^a ^b "Arturo Ríos". Tomatazos (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-05.
^ ^a ^b "Arturo Ríos: una vida entre los escenarios". www.elfinanciero.com.mx. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
^ "Arturo Ríos". MUBI. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
^ "'La casa de las flores', la nueva comedia de Netflix con Verónica Castro y Aislinn Derbez". laprensa.peru.com (in Spanish). 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2019-11-12.