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Juan Diego Botto-Rota (born August 29, 1975, in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
, Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
) is an Argentine
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
-Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War
Dirty War

The Dirty War refers to the state-sponsored violence against History of Argentina citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983 carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military government....
 when Juan Diego was only two years old. With his mother and older sister María, also an actress, he moved to Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, were he currently resides.

Botto started acting at the age of 5 in his first role in Juego De Poder. With 37 films under his belt, he is a very accomplished and highly acclaimed actor in Spain. His role in the 1999 film Sobreviviré (I will survive) got him not only more national recognition but also at a global level, with the film dubbed into numerous languages and dialects. It was a hard-hitting film about a woman who falls in love with a man who is, though unknown to her, homosexual. Botto's career as an actor has taken him beyond the big screen and onto the stage staring in several critically acclaimed plays in Spain.






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Juan Diego Botto-Rota (born August 29, 1975, in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
, Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
) is an Argentine
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
-Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War
Dirty War

The Dirty War refers to the state-sponsored violence against History of Argentina citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983 carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military government....
 when Juan Diego was only two years old. With his mother and older sister María, also an actress, he moved to Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
, Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, were he currently resides.

Botto started acting at the age of 5 in his first role in Juego De Poder. With 37 films under his belt, he is a very accomplished and highly acclaimed actor in Spain. His role in the 1999 film Sobreviviré (I will survive) got him not only more national recognition but also at a global level, with the film dubbed into numerous languages and dialects. It was a hard-hitting film about a woman who falls in love with a man who is, though unknown to her, homosexual. Botto's career as an actor has taken him beyond the big screen and onto the stage staring in several critically acclaimed plays in Spain. He has also directed a play called Privilegio de ser perro ("Privilege of being a dog"), a play about the tough life that immigrants are subject to while trying to sneak into a country, and their life after that.

Currently Juan Diego lives in Madrid, and has been linked to a well-known socialite
Socialite

A socialite is a person who is known to be a part of fashionable Upper class because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant amount of time Entertainment and being entertained....
/singer/actress. He is also active in politics, protesting the 2003 war in Iraq several times with fellow Spaniards and taking part in a support group for fellow children of the disappeared. He portrayed Zorro
Zorro

Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp magazine writer Johnston McCulley. He has been featured in several books, films, television series and other media....
's manservant Felipe (who originally was Bernardo) for Christian Broadcasting Network
Christian Broadcasting Network

The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is a Christian television broadcasting network in the United States. Its headquarters and main studios are in Virginia Beach, Virginia....
's Family Channel from 1990 to 1993. This TV series starred Duncan Regehr
Duncan Regehr

Duncan Peter Regehr is a Canadian writer, multi-media artist, and film and television actor. He has also been a figure skater, an Olympic Games boxing contender, and a classically trained Shakespearean stage actor in his native Canada, before heading to Hollywood in 1980....
 as Diego de la Vega/Zorro.

Filmography

  • The Anarchist's Wife
    The Anarchist's Wife

    The Anarchist's Wife is a 2008 Franco-Spanish film. The plot derives from the experience of Letelu's grandparents. Her grandfather, an Anarchism, fought in Siege of Madrid against Francisco Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War....
     (2007)
  • El Greco (2007)
  • Nadie Es Perfecto (Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell

    Joaqu?n Oristrell is a Spain film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Guti?rrez Arag?n, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with ...
    , 2005)
  • Bordertown (Gregory Nava
    Gregory Nava

    Gregory Nava is a film director, Film producer and screenplay writer, of Mexican and Basque people heritage.Nava met his future wife Anna Thomas while working on his master's degree at UCLA....
    , 2005)
  • La Fiesta del chivo (Luis Llosa
    Luis Llosa

    Luis Llosa is a Peruvian film director. He is the cousin of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa....
    , 2005)
  • Obaba (Montxo Armendáriz
    Montxo Armendáriz

    Montxo Armendariz, born Ram?n Armendariz Barrios, in Olleta, Orbaibar, in Navarra 1949, is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director....
    , 2005)
  • Roma
    Roma (2004 film)

    Roma is a Argentina and Spain film released in 2004 in film directed by Adolfo Aristarain. The picture stars Juan Diego Botto, Sus? Pecoraro and Jos? Sacrist?n....
     (Adolfo Aristarain
    Adolfo Aristarain

    Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentina film director.After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before returning to Argentina in 1974, following the death of Argentine president Juan Per?n....
    , 2004)
  • Los abajo firmantes (Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell

    Joaqu?n Oristrell is a Spain film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Guti?rrez Arag?n, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with ...
    , 2003)
  • Augustus (Roger Young
    Roger Young (director)

    Roger E. Young is an United States TV and film director. He won an Emmy Award in 1980 in Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for Lou Grant . He was born in Champaign, Illinois....
    , 2003)
  • Trece campanadas (Xavier Villaverde, 2002)
  • El Caballero Don Quijote (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón

    Manuel Guti?rrez Arag?n is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director....
    , 2002)
  • The Dancer Upstairs
    The Dancer Upstairs (film)

    The Dancer Upstairs is a 2002 in film film starring Javier Bardem, and the directorial debut of John Malkovich. The film is an adaptation of the The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare....
    , aka Pasos de baile (John Malkovich
    John Malkovich

    'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
    , 2002)
  • Silencio roto (Montxo Armendáriz
    Montxo Armendáriz

    Montxo Armendariz, born Ram?n Armendariz Barrios, in Olleta, Orbaibar, in Navarra 1949, is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director....
    , 2001)
  • Asfalto (Daniel Calparsoro, 2000)
  • Ave María (Eduardo Rossoff, 1999)
  • Sobreviviré (A. Albacete and D. Menkes, 1999)
  • Novios (Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell

    Joaqu?n Oristrell is a Spain film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Guti?rrez Arag?n, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with ...
    , 1999)
  • Plenilunio (Imanol Uribe
    Imanol Uribe

    Imanol Uribe is an awarded Spain screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador from Basque origins. Uribe was married to Mar?a Barranco....
    , 1999)
  • Bin Ich Schön?, aka ¿Soy Linda? (Doris Dörrie
    Doris Dörrie

    Doris D?rrie is a Germany film film director, film producer and author....
    , 1998)
  • Martín (Hache)
    Martín (hache)

    Mart?n is a 1997 Spain and Argentina film directed by Adolfo Aristarain and starring Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Cecilia Roth and Eusebio Poncela....
     (Adolfo Aristarain
    Adolfo Aristarain

    Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentina film director.After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before returning to Argentina in 1974, following the death of Argentine president Juan Per?n....
    , 1997)
  • En brazos de la mujer madura (Manuel Lombardero, 1997)
  • Más que amor, frenesí (A. Albacete, M. Bardem and D. Menkes, 1996)
  • La Celestina (Gerardo Vera
    Gerardo Vera

    Gerardo Vera is a Spanish set costumer, Opera director, writer, actor, film and theatre director.He studied English Language and Literature in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Theatre in the University of Exeter.He is the director of the Centro Dram?tico Nacional since June 2004....
    , 1996)
  • Éxtasis (Mariano Barroso, 1996)
  • La sal de la vida (Eugenio Martín, 1996)
  • Historias del Kronen (Montxo Armendáriz
    Montxo Armendáriz

    Montxo Armendariz, born Ram?n Armendariz Barrios, in Olleta, Orbaibar, in Navarra 1949, is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director....
    , 1995)
  • 1492: Conquest of Paradise
    1492: Conquest of Paradise

    1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 in film United States/European adventure film/drama film. It was film director by Ridley Scott and screenwriter by Roselyne Bosch....
     (Ridley Scott
    Ridley Scott

    Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
    , 1992)
  • Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el inteno (Ana Belén
    Ana Belén

    Ana Bel?n is the artistic name of Mar?a del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, a Spain actress and singer. She was born on 27 May 1951 in Madrid....
    , 1991)
  • Ovejas Negras (José María Carreño, 1990)
  • Zorro, (1990-1993) as Felipe (Zorro
    Zorro

    Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp magazine writer Johnston McCulley. He has been featured in several books, films, television series and other media....
    's mute assistant)
  • Aventis, aka Si te dicen que caí (Vicente Aranda
    Vicente Aranda

    Vicente Aranda , is a Spain film director, screenwriter and Film producer.Due to his refined and personal style, he is one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers....
    , 1989)


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