Alan Estrada
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Alan Estrada Gutiérrez is a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 actor
Actor
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, dancer and singer, known for his role as "Mario" in the Spanish musical Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar
Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar
Hoy no me puedo levantar is a Spanish musical, with music and lyrics by Nacho Cano, former member of the band Mecano. Based on 32 of the band's greatest hits and named after their first single, the musical centers on a pair of impoverished musicians trying to be part of La Movida Madrileña, after...

.

Career

At the age of 18 years he went to Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 to begin his artistic training. His professional debut was in 2000 in the play Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles...

starring Ignacio Lopez Tarso. After that he participated in several revivals as Chicago the musical, Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...

 and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

(all Mexican productions). His first television appearance was a minor role as “Claudio” in the soap opera Clap in 2003. He also acted in the low budget film Hotel Garage, the tape has never been released.

In 2006 he was cast by Nacho Cano
Nacho Cano
Ignacio Cano Andrés, aka Nacho Cano, is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He studied solfège and was one of the members of the Spanish group Mecano along with his brother José María Cano and Ana Torroja.He has released 4 solo albums, including Vivimos siempre juntos with...

 as “Mario” starring the Mexican production of the musical Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar
Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar
Hoy no me puedo levantar is a Spanish musical, with music and lyrics by Nacho Cano, former member of the band Mecano. Based on 32 of the band's greatest hits and named after their first single, the musical centers on a pair of impoverished musicians trying to be part of La Movida Madrileña, after...

, based on the Spanish music group Mecano
Mecano
Mecano was a Spanish pop band whose debut coincided with La Movida Madrileña , a sociocultural movement that occurred in Madrid, Spain during the 1980s...

. He played more than 400 performances at the Teatro 1 del Centro Cultural Telmex and later in Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar. El Concierto a version of the musical adapted for a tour that opened at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. By the same time he made a special appearance in the Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

’s soap opera Lola...Érase una vez
Lola...Érase una vez
Lola... Érase Una Vez ' is a teen targeted Mexican melodrama telenovela produced by Televisa that is an adaptation of the Argentine global phenomenon and teenage telenovela Floricienta...

as “Nicolas”. He also starred two short films Dejalo Así and Tabacotla. The Mexican magazine Quien listed him as one of the sexiest men in 2007.

In 2008, followed by the success in Mexico, the Spanish production of Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar invited him to close the season of the musical in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Spain
Spain
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 and started the tour of the Iberian country. The same year he has three Mexican movies in theaters: a brief appearance in Casi Divas (Road to Fame), followed by the romantic comedy Amor Letra Por Letra starring with Silvia Navarro
Silvia Navarro
Silvia Angelica Navarro Barva is a Mexican actress who began as a contract player for TVAzteca, where she starred in the telenovelas Perla and Montecristo....

, and the parody Divina Confusion of Salvador Garcini, also starred by Jesus Ochoa, Diana Bracho, Pedro Armendáriz, Luis Roberto Guzman, Lisa Owen, Adal Ramones, Kalimba and Ana Brenda Contreras. While he was in México promoting his films received the proposal to work for television in Bailando por un Sueño
Bailando por un sueño
Bailando por un Sueño or " Dansez pentru tine", is a reality series on the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas, in which celebrities are partnered with common, everyday people with dreams they want to fulfill , who each week compete...

so decided to leave the musical in Spain.

Alan began his participation in the second season of Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

’s reality: El Show De Los Sueños, Amigos Del Alma. His team “Los Mosqueteros” reached to the final: Los Reyes Del Show, they did not win the contest but it gave him the opportunity to get to an international audience showing his talent in singing and dancing.

He has a role at the second season of the Mexican soap opera Verano de amor as "Fabian Escudero".

In July 2009 is going to be released the Mexican musical Que planton! Alan will perform as "El Pino".

Theatre

Year Title Role
2000 Oedipus at Colonus
2001 Chicago the musical Swing
2003 Saturday Night Fever Joey, Tony Manero
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Isacar, Joseph
2005 Archi
2006 Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar Mario
2009 ¡Que Planton! Pino
2010 Timbiriche el Musical

Film

Year Title Role Other notes
2005 Hotel Garage Antonio
2007 Dejalo Así Andrés Short film
Tabacotla Sebastian Short film
2008 Road to Fame Santiago
Amor Letra Por Letra Edgar
Divina Confusión Pablo

External links

  • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2828782/ Alan Estrada at the Internet Movie Database
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