Marcelo Romo

Known for ActingBorn 1941-04-23Died 2018-01-23Santiago, Chile

Marcelo Romo (Santiago, April 23, 1941 – January 23, 2018) was a renowned Chilean actor of film, theater, and television. Trained at the University of Chile’s School of Theater, he became one of the leading figures of Chilean acting from the 1960s onward. He made his film debut in El Chacal de Nahueltoro (1969) by Miguel Littín, playing a journalist —a landmark in Chilean cinema that marked the beginning of a prolific film career spanning over thirty titles. During the Pinochet dictatorship, Romo went into exile in Venezuela, where he continued his career in film, participating in movies such as La máxima felicidad (1982) and Señora Bolero (1991), as well as in theater, and television, later working also in Mexico and Colombia. He returned to Chile in the 1990s and became a familiar face in popular TV series such as Rojo y Miel, Sucupira, Estúpido Cupido, and Pecadores (his last television appearance, in 2003). A versatile and socially committed performer, Romo was admired for the emotional depth of his characters and his dedication to the arts. He spent his final years away from the public eye due to Alzheimer’s disease and passed away in Santiago in 2018, aged 76.Read more

Movies & web series

La hora del tigre

Señora Bolero

La máxima felicidad

Dear Comrades

Mi amada Beatriz

Morituri

Canaguaro

The First Year

Enough Praying

ITV Playhouse

Jackal of Nahueltoro

Mariposas S.A.

Oro verde

The Witnesses

Voto + Fusil

The Suns of Easter Island

Amores de mercado

Ámame

Metamorphosis of the Chief of the Political Police

Juegos de fuego

Rompecorazón

Rojo y miel

Purasangre

Borrón y cuenta nueva

Brigada Escorpión

Los náufragos

Las historias de Sussi

Sucupira, la comedia

The Perfect House

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