Flavio Caballero
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Flavio Caballero (born October 6, 1958) is a well known Colombian actor. He is a native of Cartagena.
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Flavio Caballero grew up with two childhood dreams: he wanted to become both a psychologist and an actor. When he was in high school, he became more interested in psychology, and he was an above average student, becoming able to attend college, where he pursued a career as a psychologist.
Eventually, he began losing interest in that career, focusing instead on becoming an actor. Caballero began to study acting at the Instituto de Arte Dramatico Juana Sujo.
Caballero established himself in Caracas, Venezuela, where he kept studying acting, at the Instituto Nacional de Teatro de Caracas. He also studied acting in the United States and Brazil.
In 1971, Caballero made his film debut, acting in a Italian-Spaniard-French production, "Il Corsaro Nero" ("Black Pirate"). Caballero proceeded to act in more than seven theatre plays, and, in 1979, he appeared on Venezuelan screens for the first time, in a film named "El Rebaño de los Angeles" ("Angel's Herd"). In 1982, Flavio Caballero made his telenovela debut, acting in "La Señorita Perdomo" ("Ms. Perdomo"). That soap opera was the first of seventeen soap operas that Caballero would participate in, including 1983's "Leonela", 1987's "La Intrusa" ("The Intruder") and "Mi Amada Beatriz" ("My Beloved Beatriz"), 1988's "Aventurera" ("Adventurer"), and 2002's "Mi Gorda Bella" ("My Beautiful Fat Girl"), which was a Venezuelan spoof of Colombian hit, "Betty La Fea".
Perhaps Caballero's most important career year was 1989, when he reached international fame starring in "Amanda Sabater" alongside Maricarmen Regueiro. Caballero played "Ivan Moros" in the soap opera. "Amanda Sabater" was a heiress whose father was "Diego Sabater". However, and unknown to the two main characters in the soap opera, "Diego Sabater" was really "Ivan"'s father and not "Amanda"'s. This soap opera reached high ratings in many countries, including Mexico, Puerto Rico and (among Hispanics) in the United States.
Caballero is currently under contract with Radio Caracas Television.
