Fernando Colunga. This was his debut on television (VIDEO)

​Fernando Colunga, who recently gave what to talk about because He resigned from the series where he was going to incarnate Jesús Malverde, so he is also a singer Pedro Fernandez it substituted, celebrates his 55th birthday this March 3.

Given this, it is worth remembering how he began his career on television, where he became very popular thanks to the roles of the heartthrob he played in various soap operas, for example: Luis Fernando in Maria from the neighborhood, Carlos Daniel in La Usurpadora and Manuel Fuentes in Real love.

It stands out that before his work on the small screen, Fernando Colunga (Mexico City, 1966) studied icivil engineering.

“The acting situation is something unreal for everyone, especially in my case that nobody (from his family) was dedicated to acting. It is a restlessness that one has. I am a people who was studying, but I was always anxious to do something, to act, to go to the forum, to see “, recalled the actor in an interview with Cristina Pacheco placeholder image.

This concern led Colunga to work as stuntman, situation that opened his first opportunity on television as part of the telenovela Sweet challenge (1988-1989), who starred Adela Noriega Y Eduardo Yanez.

“I did dubbing in the cinema, because curiously that is how I stayed in the cinema: I went to see and ended up staying twice as many action scenes. Life is so insistent on saying ‘I want to do that, I want to do that’, that maybe one day a friend talks to me and says: ‘At Televisa they are finishing a production and they don’t have anyone to dub an action scene, and we talk about you because you dedicate yourself to this, it is one of your facets in life, ‘”Colunga said about his television debut.

“He got there and I know Ignacio Ortiz, Carlos Castro, Mr. (Eugenio) Cobo, and we came to an arrangement of how much he had to make of the scenes, in what time and how they were made“”, added the actor, who after his participation the Sweet challenge decided to enroll in the Center for Artistic Education (CEA) of Televisa.

In addition, prior to being one of the most popular faces of Mexican soap operas, Colunga reached millions of homes in Mexico thanks to being part of the Plaza Sésamo children’s program.

“I had the opportunity to do Sesame Street and at some point I had many talks with people from UNICEF , and said, ‘This is more complex than I thought.’ When they bring us the figures of the number of people who learned to read or write with what we did, one becomes aware of their responsibility as a communicator by standing in front of the television, “said Colunga.

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