Fernando Luján

Fernando Luján
Born	Fernando Ciangherotti Díaz (1938-08-23) August 23, 1938 Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952-present
Spouse(s)	Martha Mariana Castro
Children	10

Fernando Luján (born Fernando Ciangherotti Díaz on August 23, 1938) is an actor, born in Mexico City, Mexico. His father; Alejandro Ciangherotti, brother Alejandro Ciangherotti Jr., wife Martha Mariana Castro, son Fernando Ciangherotti and daughter Vanessa Ciangherotti are also actors. He is not related to actress Daniela Luján.

Family

He is the son of Alejandro Ciangherotti I and Mercedes Soler, the youngest of the famous Soler family. His late brother, Alejandro Ciangherotti, ex-wife, Adriana Parra, wife Martha Mariana Castro, children Fernando, Vanessa, Canek, Franco Paolo,^[1] granddaughter and son-in-law Vaita and Roberto Sosa, nephews Alejandro III, Alexis and Alan are also actors in Azteca, except his daughter, Cassandra,^[2] who works for the rival company, Televisa.

He has 10 children; 5 daughters and 5 sons.

Una vuelta al corazón

In 2009, his wife and daughter, Martha Mariana and Vanessa, produced a trilogy of the family in celebrating the ninth anniversary of Lo que callamos las mujeres, starring his children, nephews and granddaughter, where Vanessa and Fernando Ciangherotti serve as the director.

Acting career

He started his acting career as a child in the Cinema of Mexico credited as "Fernando Ciangherotti" but changed his stage name to "Fernando Luján" a few years later. After appearing in more than eight films, mostly light comedies, he obtained a role in the telenovela Cuatro en la trampa at age twenty-three. The next eighteen years, he alternated his film career with television, culminating with the worldwide famous production Los ricos también lloran. The next twelve years he did not participate in telenovelas and only starred in four films. He returned to television with Vida robada and Cadenas de amargura in 1991.

After participating in three other telenovelas for Televisa in the next five years, he signed a contract with TV Azteca to co-star with Angélica Aragón in the second telenovela of that new network titled Mirada de mujer. This telenovela was a success and would produce a sequel six years later. After Mirada de mujer he obtained significant roles in film, especially as the star of the film-version of Gabriel García Márquez's book No One Writes to the Colonel in 1999 (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba). His performance in this film was qualified as "remarkable" by The New York Times. In 2005, he received the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film in honoring his career and contributions to film.

Awards

Ariel Award in 2005
- Diosa de plata ("Silver Goddess") to honor his career in the Cinema of Mexico

Telenovelas

Los Rey (2012) as Everardo Rey Martínez
Quererte Así (2012) as Alfred "Fred" Roth
Entre el Amor y el Deseo (2010) as Edgar Dumont
Montecristo (2006) as Alberto Lombardo
Las Juanas (2004) as Calixto Matamoros
Mirada de mujer: El regreso (2003) as Lic. Ignacio San Millán
Lo que es el amor (2001) as Emiliano Lomelí
Todo por amor (2000) as Gonzalo Robles
Mirada de mujer (1997) as Lic. Ignacio San Millán
Para toda la vida (1996) as Juan Angel
La paloma (1995)
Sueño de amor (1993)
Cadenas de amargura (1991) as Padre Julio
Vida robada (1991) as Don Ramon
Los ricos también lloran (1979) as Diego
Bella y Bestia (1979)
María José (1978) as El Jaiba
La venganza (1977)
Los que ayudan a Dios (1973)
Marina Lavalle (1965)
La culpa de los padres (1963)
Cuatro en la trampa (1961)

Series

Pinche Pancho

Films

Cinco días sin Nora (2008)
El carnaval de Sodoma (2006)
Tu te lo pierdes (2005)
El tigre de Santa Julia (2002) as Nando
Primer y último amor (2002) as Fermín Azcue
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999) as The colonel
En el país de no pasa nada (1999)
Fuera de la ley (1998)
Día de muertos (1988)
Solicíto marido para engañar (1987)
Mas buenas que el pan (1985)
En la trampa (1979)
Estas ruinas que ves (1978) as Paco Aldebarán
La guerra de los pasteles (1978)
El patrullero 777 (1977)
El alegre divorciado (1976)
El Miedo no anda en Burro (1973)
Los corrompidos (1971)
La hermana Dinamita (1970)
Buscando una sonrisa (1970)
Pilotos de combate (1970)
Confesiones de una adolescente (1969)
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa (1968) as Miguel Ernesto Suárez
Cuerpazo del delito (1968)
El oficio mas antiguo del mundo (1968)
Cuatro contra el crimen (1968)
Amor y esas cosas (1967)
Caballos de acero (1967)

Sólo para tí (1966) as Juan Negro
El falso heredero (1966)
Acapulco a go-go (1966)
Lanza tus penas al viento (1966)
Novias impacientes (1966)
Novio para dos hermanas, Un (1966)
Viento negro (1965) as Ingeniero Julio
Fiebre de juventud (1965)
Juventud sin ley (1965)
Que haremos con papá? (1965)
Los perversos a go go (1965)
Amor y sexo (1964) as Gallina, interno
El gángster (1964)
Neutrón contra los asesinos del karate (1964)
El pueblo fantasma (1963)
La sombra de los hijos (1963)
Dile que la quiero (1963)
El cielo y la tierra (1962)
Jóvenes y bellas (1961)
Juventud rebelde (1961)
Vacaciones en Acapulco (1960)
Peligros de juventud (1960)
La sombra en defensa de la juventud (1959)
La edad de la tentación (1958)
El mil amores (1954) as Ricardo Rodríguez
La segunda mujer (1952)
La cobarde (1952)

References

↑ http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/92966.html La dinastía Ciangherotti tiene nuevo integrante: Paolo Luján
↑ http://www.informador.com.mx/entretenimiento/2010/218860/6/cassandra-ciangherotti-en-pleno-ascenso.htm Cassandra Ciangherotti, en pleno ascenso

External links

Fernando Luján at the Telenovela database.
Fernando Luján at the Internet Movie Database
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba review on The New York Times

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 122226884

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