Bruno Irizarry

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Bruno Irizarry (* in Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican actor , director and film producer .

Life

Irizarry, born in Puerto Rico, moved to New York City at the age of 17 , where he fell in love with a young Puerto Rican girl named María. However, he then had to return to his home country for private and family reasons. Since he could not forget his great love María, he came back to the United States to look for her. However, he could no longer find María, who had moved away; after two years he gave up his unsuccessful search. He began training as an opera singer , shot commercials and eventually became an actor.

He has appeared at various regional theater companies and at off-Broadway theaters. He worked as a director for the Kismet Theater Company in New Jersey; there he staged the play Chewing Mother's Bones .

He had u. a. Theater engagements at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City (April / May 1995; in Yepeto by the Argentine author Roberto Cossa ), at the Seattle Repertory Theater / Seattle Intiman Theater (September 1996; as a gay Puerto Rican dancer and lover Ramon in Love, Valor and Compassion! by Terrence McNally ), at the Berkeley Repertory Theater (December 1996-January 1997; also as Ramon), where he appeared completely naked in one scene of the production. Further engagements followed at 47 Street Theater in New York City / Centro de Bellas Artes, Puerto Rico (1999; in the musical Who Killed Hector Lavoe? By Pablo Cabrera ), at the Portland Center Stage (2004/05 season; as husband Palomo in Anna In The Tropics by Nilo Cruz ), at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater (March / April 2008; as Henrique in the world premiere of The Night is a Child by Charles Randolph-Wright ), at Opera Illinois (in West Side Story ) and on Spanish Repertory Theater / New York City (in La Gringa by Carmen Rivera and Bodas de Sangre ).

Irizarry appeared in various US television series. In the movie The Rum Diary (2011) with Johnny Depp in the lead role, he had a supporting role; he played the architect Lazar. In January 2013 he was seen in a supporting role in the ZDF television series Das Traumschiff ; he played the Puerto Rican Carlos Rivera. In April 2016, Irizarry was seen again in a ZDF production. In the ZDF Sunday film A Summer in Florida , he played the male lead alongside Suzanne von Borsody , the Cuban exile Miguel Perez.

Irizarry's first directorial work, in which he also took on the male lead, was the situation comedy Shut Up and Do It! . The film won the American Latino TV Award in 2008. His greatest success to date as a director was with the bilingual (English / Spanish) filmed romantic comedy 200 cartas , which premiered in 2014. In the clearly autobiographical film, Irizarry tells the story of the New York-based Puerto Rican Raúl, played by Lin-Manuel Miranda , who falls madly in love with the young María Sánchez when he first met. The film, which was co-financed by the Puerto Rico Film Commission, became one of the greatest successes in the country in Puerto Rico.

Irizarry also worked as a film producer. He was the founder of Vanguardia Films with offices in New York and Puerto Rico. In 2013 he founded his new film production company Brava Studios in Puerto Rico with his business partner Shimmy McHugh. In 2015 he began the preparatory work for his planned film projects, the thriller The Door and the black comedy Prótesis .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1996: New York Undercover (TV series; actor)
  • 2007: Shut Up and Do It! (Feature film; actor, director, producer)
  • 2011: Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York (TV series; actor)
  • 2011: The Rum Diary (feature film; actor)
  • 2012: White Collar (TV series; actor)
  • 2013: The Dream Ship : Puerto Rico (TV series; cast)
  • 2014: 200 Cartas (English title: Looking for María Sánchez ) (feature film; director, producer)
  • 2014: Incógnita (TV series; actor)
  • 2016: A Summer in Florida (TV Movie; Actor)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bruno Irizarry Vita. Festival Scope.com. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Annual Latin American Film Festival set Official Grand Valley State University website, March 25, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f “I'm looking for María Sánchez” Interview with Bruno Irizarry; in: La Respuesta of October 22, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Bruno Irizarry Vita. Official website of the film Shut Up and Do It! . Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ IN PERFORMANCE; THEATER: Growing Up, Growing Old And How to Tell the Difference Yepeto Puerto Rican Traveling Theater ; Performance review; in: New York Times, April 29, 1995. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ Love 'An Intimate Look At Gay Life ; Performance review in: The Seattle Times, September 12, 1996. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ Love! Valor! and tender friendships ; Performance review. SFGate.com, November 8, 1996. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  8. ↑ THEATER REVIEW; Out-of-It, Arrogant And a Salsa Legend ; Performance review; in: New York Times, July 27, 1999. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  9. ↑ Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics ; Performance review in: The Portland Mercury, November 25, 2004. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  10. ↑ Mom Is Seduced by Samba in Premiere of Randolph-Wright's The Night is a Child Playbill.com, February 29, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  11. ↑ a b c Bruno Irizarry ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita. Official website of the 2015 Latin American Film Festival. Accessed April 3, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / grlaff.org
personal data
SURNAME Irizarry, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican actor, director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Puerto Rico