Álvaro Bayona

Actor

January 9, 1961 (65 years)

Bogotá, DC, Colombia

Biography

Álvaro Bayona Borrero (Bogotá, January 9, 1961) is a Colombian film, theater and television actor with an extensive career that began in the 1980s. In 2019, thanks to the "actor's law" passed in the Congress of the Republic, he graduated, along with more than 35 actors as a master in dramatic art from the University of Antioquia in alliance with the Guerrero Arts Academy.

Filmography

2.5

Masterchef Celebrity: Colombia

A culinary competition featuring celebrity contestants.

7.7

Pedro El Escamoso

Pastor Fernando Gaitán

A charming man moves to the big city and falls for a female executive in this comedic telenovela.

N/A

Aquí no hay quien viva (Colombia)

Juan José Preciado

Each tenant of an old building called "Salsipuedes" has a story to tell. Crazy adventures, gossip, scandals, and both beloved and unfriendly neighbors are part of this entertaining series.

8.4

Peter the Great: Greater Than Ever

Pastor Fernando Gaitán García

After twenty years abroad, Pedro returns to Colombia and once again falls in love with the wrong woman. Fernanda is his son's boss and future mother-in-law, which puts Junior's rising career at risk. To protect him, Pedro hides their blood ties from everyone, and works on rebuilding their troubled relationship whilst trying to navigate his love life.

5.5

Azúcar

Padre Pedro Nel López

In a valley marked by sugarcane fields, a curse unleashes conflicts between generations. Forbidden loves, broken loyalties, and buried secrets reveal a gripping story where the past and present converge in an inescapable destiny.

5.9

The Padre

Abejundio (Church Caretaker)

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.

2.0

Digging for Love

Francisco Suescun

Digging for Love is a fun story for all the family. It narrates the life of two neighbor families: The Murcia and the Otero family, who have had the best relationship until one day they fight, and as destiny would have it, that same day something unexpected occurs: The Murcia family discovers a treasure in the garden of their house, a giant golden statue buried in the ground between both of their houses. From that moment on, a series of failed attempts to try to unearth it will make way for a countless number of entertaining and dramatic situations. What both families are unaware of, is that the original owner of the desired treasure is about to be released from jail and will come back to recover his fortune at any price.

7.0

La viuda de Blanco

Laurentino Urbina

No description available

N/A

Inversiones el ABC

Don Gustavo

No description available

N/A

Los graduados

Walter

No description available

7.5

Love Film Festival

himself

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.

8.2

The Maximum Penalty

'El Gordo' Sanabria

After seeing how the Colombian National Football Team achieves a draw against Argentina, Mariano Concha —a public employee for whom football is a great passion— starts a whole process to attend the next crucial match, in Bogotá and against the same team, going over all his duties and risking the future of his reduced economy. An unexpected event transforms his plans to go to the stadium.

5.5

Las Cartas Del Gordo

Self

Two childhood friends (Rivera and Mendoza) re-encounter when one of them, a famous soccer player who didn't have time to hang out with the other, gets injured.

7.2

The Beauty and the Moody

Abundio

Meet Cheo Martinez, the neighbor you do not want to have and whose time has come when his neighbors, tired of putting up with him, hire Carolina Rico, a beautiful and audacious escort, to make him fall in love and get him out of the building. What will happen when Cheo falls into the tricks of love and Carolina’s dark past reaches her?

N/A

Don't Give Up: The Raizal Paradise

Coronel Salcedo

Blacky, a gigolo on the island of San Andrés, tries to make money by supplying fuel to the boats that transport drugs to Central America, but his plan goes spectacularly wrong and he becomes a witness to something he shouldn't have seen.