Bernardo García

Biography

Born on July 25, 1977, he began his acting studies in 1989 with Colombian actors Maguso and Fernando García. In 1996 he studied music and later vocal technique at the Universidad Javeriana. He has taken workshops in film acrobatics and stage combat. In 2002 he traveled to Chile to attend the Mimodrama and Media Resources Workshop with the Velatropa Group, directed by José Luis Vivallo. His career in film began in 1998 in the Spanish film Todo está oscuro by Ana Dies, the following year he participated in El regreso a la nada, in 2001 in Amor atado by Felipe Aljure, in 2003 he worked in the film El carro produced by Dago García, in 2006 he acted in Las cartas del Gordo by Dago García and in Dios los junta y ellos se separan by Harold Trompero. In television he has worked in several series and soap operas, including Así es la vida, Siguiendo el rastro, La sombra del arco iris, Francisco el matemático, Prisioneros del amor, Sabor a limón, Amar y Vivir and De que tamaño es tu amor. He has also been part of the staging of several plays such as: Romeo y Julieta by Farley Velásquez, Impaciencia del corazón by Manolo Orjuela, I took Panamá by Jorge Alí Triana and Manuel Orjuela and Hienas, chacales y otros animales carnívoros by Fabio Rubiano. In El man the national superhero García plays Felipe De Las Aguas, a young cab driver from a humble family who works hard to support his mother, pay his cab and the mortgage on his house. Tired of seeing so many injustices around him, he decides to become a flesh and blood superhero, who with his effort, cunning and empirical justice, helps others with his super power: Faith. "The Man is a guy who has only one power: faith. He is a person who is able to believe above any vicissitude, that it is possible to change the destiny of things if we really feel we can. He is a superhero, like there are hundreds in Colombia, only he is a guy who dared to fight against something that was not right, as everyone should," commented Bernardo García to the Colombian magazine Shock.