Saul Lisazo is an Argentine actor

Actor

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

 and ex-footballer.

About Saul

Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi is one of 6 siblings: Maria, Fernanda, Araceli, Alejandro, Mauricio, and Vanina. One event in his childhood that marked him was the death of his father when he only was 12 years old. Soccer is one of his passions; he started playing soccer with his father when he was a little boy and it grew to be his favorite sport and one that would take him to other countries around the world. In Spain, he met who would become the woman of his life, former model Mónica Viedma, whom he married. The pair has two kids, Paula, who was born on June 4, 1999 and Martin, born on November 11, 2003.

He played in Sarmiento

Sarmiento

-People:*Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat*Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, president of Argentina*Ismael Sarmiento , Colombian road cyclist*María José Sarmiento, Argentine judge*Martín Sarmiento, Galician Enlightenment priest...

 for 10 years. He also played in Atlanta

Club Atlético Atlanta

Club Atlético Atlanta is an Argentine sports club from Buenos Aires. Nicknamed Los Bohemios , its football team won the 2010/11 Primera B Metropolitana championship and promoted to the Primera B Nacional for the 2011/12 season.-History:The club was founded on October the 12th, 1904 in Buenos...

 in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, SK Beveren and KV Mechelen in Belgium

Belgium

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; and in Juventus from ]]Brazil]]. Saúl had to leave the sport but he tried to play in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 until an injury in his knee forced him to leave it completely. In 1983, he decided to become a model.

In 1988, he started studying dramatic arts in Spain, at the academy of the Argentine actress Cristina Rotta. After two and a half years of preparation he had his first opportunity, in the movie "El Regreso a la Isla del Tesoro". During the early 1990s, Saúl flew to Mexico City

Mexico City

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, where he was the image of a very important liquor company which brought him international fame. Meanwhile, he acted in theater shows like "La Fierecilla Domada", "Tartufo," and others.

His first telenovela

Telenovela

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 break came in 1990, when Mexican

Mexican people

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 actress Lucía Méndez

Lucía Méndez

Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer that has sold over 10 million records world wide.- Early success :...

 insisted that he would be her partner in her new novela, "Amor de Nadie", which became a major hit across Latin America. After that he started in other telenovelas, such as "Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma", and "La Jaula de Oro

La Jaula de Oro

-Critical reception:Wilson Neate of Allmusic gave the album a four of out five praising the title track of the album.-Chart performance:...

", among others. He also was in productions such as Tenias que ser Tu, Prisionera de Amor.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2011	El 8º Mandamiento	Julián
2010	Capadocia Capadocia (TV series) Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series...  season 2	Javier
2009–2010	El Clon El Clon El Clon is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the U.S.-based television network Telemundo and Rede Globo. It is a remake of O Clone, a Brazilian telenovela that originally aired on Globo in 2001 and on Telemundo in 2002...	Leonardo Ferrer
2007	Mientras Haya Vida Mientras Haya Vida -Story:The story revolves around culture shock between two disparate worlds: That of the rich and the powerful versus that of the ordinary, everyday folk . And in the middle of both worlds, the one thing that most people in both worlds desire, true love...	Hector Cervantes
2007	Ladrón que roba a ladrón	Moctesuma Valdez
2005–2006	Tierra de Pasiones Tierra de Pasiones Tierra de Pasiones is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo which is owned by NBC Universal. Tierra de Pasiones was filmed on a set in Homestead, Florida, and aired weekdays from February 20, 2006 to October 24, 2006 at 8 pm ET...	Francisco Contreras
2004	Gitanas Gitanas Gitanas is a Mexican telenovela which aired in 2004. It was largely based on the Chilean telenovela Romané, and was co-produced by the Mexican company Argos Comunicación and Telemundo. It aired at 9PM EST and PST from late 2004 until mid-2005...	Juan Dominguez
2001	El Derecho de Nacer El derecho de nacer El derecho de nacer is the name of three Mexican productions as well as the Cuban novel that inspired them all about a young and unmarried high society woman seeking to abort her baby and the doctor who in counseling her tells his own story as an out-of-wedlock child.*El derecho de nacer is the...	Aldo Drigani
1999	Por tu Amor	Marco Durán
1999	El Niño que Vino del Mar	Don Alfonso Cáceres de Ribera 'Duque de Oriol'
1998	Vivo Por Elena Vivo Por Elena Vivo Por Elena is a Mexican telenovela starring Victoria Ruffo and Saul Lisazo with the antagonic roles of Ana Patricia Rojo and Sebastian Ligarde. The telenovela aired on Univision in 1998. The theme song for the telenovela was Vivo Por Ella, sung by Andrea Bocelli with a duet by Marta Sanchez...	Juan Alberto Montiel
1997	La Jaula de Oro La Jaula de Oro -Critical reception:Wilson Neate of Allmusic gave the album a four of out five praising the title track of the album.-Chart performance:...	Alex Moncada
1995	Bajo un Mismo Rostro	Teodorakis
1995	Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma	David
1994	El Dia que me Quieras El día que me quieras El día que me quieras is a song composed by Carlos Gardel, an Argentinian singer-musician, with text by Alfredo Le Pera. It became a heavily recorded tango standard, even by artists outside of the realm of tango.-Luis Miguel version:...	Miguel
1994	Prisionera de Amor	Jose Armando
1993	Tenias que ser Tú
1990	Amor de Nadie	Luis

External links

• http://www.telemundo.com Telemundo Website
• http://msnlatino.telemundo.com/novelas/Tierra_de_Pasiones/ Official "Tierra de Pasiones" Website