Marcelo Buquet

Héctor Marcelo Buquet Corleto (born October 4, 1963 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan actor and former model.

Biography

At the age of 18 Buquet joined a theater company in his native Uruguay called El Galpón del Uruguay where he participated in 25 stage productions as an actor, producer, songwriter and singer. At the age of 26 he moved to Mexico and participated in the telenovela Simplemente María with Victoria Ruffo and in Manolo Fábregas' production of Bear Jest for which he was nominated as the Best Comedy Actor of the Year by the Association of Theater Journalists of Mexico. In 1992 he obtained a role in his second telenovela: El abuelo y yo with Gael García Bernal. The following year he obtained a role in Uruguay's first full feature film El dirigible. In 1994 he produced and starred in Triángulo directed by Miguel Córcega in Mexico City and Montevideo, Uruguay and in Che... Che... Chejov which received the Best Self-Taught Production of the Year. In 1998 he played a villain in La usurpadora and its special short sequel Más allá de la usurpadora. His most recent work has been in his fourth Colombian telenovela: Doña Bella in 2010.

Awards

• 1998 Special mention by the Association of Theater Critics of Uruguay
• 1994 Best Self-Taught Production of the Year by the Mexican Association of Theater Critics
• 1991 Foreign-born Model of the Year by Contempo Agency

Telenovelas

Year	Title	Character	Note
2015	Lo imperdonable	Aquiles Botel	Supporting Role
2012-13	Qué Bonito Amor	Rubén del Olmo	Main Antagonist
2011-12	Corazón apasionado	Bruno Montesinos	Main Antagonist
2010	Doña Bella	Román Montero	Co-protagonist
2007	La Marca del Deseo	Reynaldo de Santibáñez	Protagonist
2005	La Tormenta	Simón Guerrero	Main Antagonist
2005	La madrastra	Gerardo Salgado	Supporting Role
2004	La mujer en el espejo	Juan Tobías Fonseca	Supporting Role
2003	Ladrón de corazones	Patricio Benítez	Supporting Role
1999	El diario de Daniela	Enrique Monroy #1	Protagonist
1999	Más allá de la puente	Rodrigo Bracho	Co-protagonist
1998	La usurpadora	Rodrigo Bracho	Co-protagonist
1997	María Isabel, Si tu supieras	Cristóbal	Supporting Role
1995	El premio mayor	Don Lorenzo	Supporting Role
1994	Marimar	Rodolfo San Genis	Antagonist
1992	El abuelo y yo	Gerardo	Co-protagonist
1989	Simplemente María	Fernando Torres	Supporting Role

Personal

Buquet was married to Lorena Sotelo, who died in 2013 at age 39 from liver cancer. The couple had a son, Marcel, born in 2009.

External links

• Marcelo Buquet Official Website.
• Marcelo Buquet at the telenovela database
• Marcelo Buquet at the Internet Movie Database
• Photo gallery and Profile (cached by Google)