Acting
Carlos Barbosa
Carlos Alfonso Barbosa Romero (Cali, January 15, 1944 – Bogotá, October 9, 2025) was a Colombian actor and director of television, film, and theater.
Barbosa earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Valle in Cali, where he was part of the university’s theater group, which later became the Department of Performing Arts. He later joined the National Theater Company of Colombia, which went on a tour that ended in Costa Rica. Afterward, he moved to San Andrés and Providencia before returning to Bogotá, where he joined the cast of the Teatro Popular de Bogotá (TPB). His television debut took place in 1969 in the telenovela Candó. Among his most memorable television roles are Eurípides, a gay hairdresser, in the 1986 telenovela El Divino; the doorman of the apartment building where the Casas family lived in the children’s show Imagínate (1988); and Ernesto in the comedy series Vuelo secreto (1992–1998). Carlos Barbosa also appeared in La saga: negocio de familia (2004) and Bermúdez (2009), in which he played Gerardo Bermúdez. In 2010, he portrayed Abdul in El clon, a Telemundo production. He passed away on October 9, 2025, at his home in Bogotá, after battling multiple myeloma for two months, a condition that progressively worsened.
Filmography
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El Estilista
On Gabriel's birthday, he and his friend Jorge Mario are kidnapped by guerrillas who have infiltrated his rice...
Los protegidos
Los Protegidos is a Colombian telenovela aired since May 6, 2008 on Colombian TV network RCN. This telenovela i...
La de Troya
En Los Tacones De Eva
Pasiones Secretas
Me amarás bajo la lluvia
Julián and Laura meet at a jewelry store to plan their respective weddings, but a violent robbery makes them th...
Pisingaña
A young peasant woman moves to Bogotá in search of work and ends up as a domestic servant for a middle-class fa...
Bolivar Is Me
A soap opera actor wants to finish Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia": a super-state of 5 Latin-American cou...
Holy Expectations
With a short life expectancy, a young woman uses faith and her vivid imagination to navigate adversity and crea...
Y nos fuimos pal' mundial
Three humble Colombian construction workers, known as “Rusos,” travel all the way to Russia to fulfill a promis...
The Grandmother
Portrait of a traditional, rich and decadent family from Bogotá, dominated by evil Brigida "the grandmother" wh...
El candidato
With humor and satire, developers and pirates who emerge as candidates of the people reveal themselves as profe...
Ayer me echaron del Pueblo
A family of peasants must live in the chaotic big city.