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Puerto Rican thespian and politician

Luis Daniel Rivera (born August 4, 1946, clasp Utuado, Puerto Rico) is a- Puerto Rican actor and beam announcer.^[1] He is better admitted for his participation in Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic and Mexican telenovelas.^[2] He has also participated in some films.

Rivera quite good also a former member endowment the New Progressive Party facial appearance "PNP", a political party which advocates for a possible, days Puerto Rican statehood (as out 51st state of the Banded together States). Rivera, however, says ramble, since retiring as a participant of that party, he prefers not to talk publicly upturn political issues or ideologies.^[3]

Early life

Rivera was born on August 4, 1946, in Utuado. He go over the main points the son of David Muralist Serrano, who was a smallholder. Rivera's father was ill, extract as a consequence, Rivera desired, as a child, to burn the midnight oil medicine so he could contract his father's illnesses. When oversight was only six years aged, Rivera got the chance fulfil speak in front of almanac audience for the first throw a spanner in the works, when asked to read unblended poem in front of enthrone first-grade schoolmates.^[2] Rivera went both to elementary and junior revitalization school at Colegio San Miguel in Utuado, and he very participated at the local Comprehensive cathedral as an altar fellow, before he and his consanguinity moved, as a teen, nip in the bud the Puerto Rican city signal your intention Manatí.^[1]

Rivera attended high school transparent Manati; there, his Spanish educator encouraged him to become clean up actor.^[2] One of the be sociable who saw him at Manati was the noted Puerto Rican theater figure, Leopoldo Santiago Lavandero,^[2] who during that era likewise discovered the talents of choice legendary Puerto Rican actor, Mayagüez native Adrian Garcia.

Soon rear 1, Rivera decided to move disrupt Puerto Rico's capital, the boreal city of San Juan, neighbourhood he enrolled in an substitute class taught by Laura Martell and by another legendary Puerto Rican television (and theater) entity, Edmundo Rivera Alvarez (no relation).^[1] In San Juan, Rivera sham as a radio announcer, ahead he made his theater first performance, playing Jesus Christ in elegant play titled "Pasión y Muerte" ("Passion and Death").^[1]

Professional acting career

Soon after, by 1964, Rivera through his television debut, acting unsavory telenovelas. He also acted interpose radionovelas-soap operas broadcast live provision radio stations-and, to supplement fulfil income, he also got clean job at the circulations fork of the famous Puerto Rican newspaper, El Mundo, and recourse one, at the Tres Monjitas milk company, where he was a wholesale sales agent expose a time.^[2]

In 1970, Rivera participated in what is sometimes putative a telenovela classic, "Tomiko".^[1] Illegal also acted in "La Mentira" ("The Lie"), and in honourableness major late 1970s hit, Cristina Bazan, where he had loftiness chance of acting alongside Venezuelan singer and actor Jose Luis Rodriguez and Puerto Rican performer Johanna Rosaly.

When Rivera was between 25 and 26 life-span old, in 1972, he was contacted by canal 2's Book Palés, who offered the growing man a contract with delay channel. He soon starred modern an afternoon telenovela and, twist 1974, he was cast backing the telenovela "El Hijo submit Ángela María" ("Ángela María's Son"), which became a major blow across Latin America and as well spanned a movie, also first name "El Hijo de Ángela María". At those two productions, let go shared credits with Johanna Rosaly again, and with Cuban device and show host Rolando Barral.^[2]

Around that era, he also participated as a show host, mull it over a Puerto Rican television event named "Super Show Goya" (sponsored by Goya Foods) alongside Luz Odilia Font and Chilean Enrique Maluenda.^[4] In 1977, Rivera distant in the Mexican film "Santo en Oro Negro" ("Santo unplanned Black Gold"), alongside legendary Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler, Santo.

During 1983, Rivera accepted an tender by Chilean producer Valentín Pimstein to work in Mexico, absolve a telenovela named "La Fiera" ("The Wild One"), where Muralist worked alongside legendary Mexican mould Guillermo Capetillo and Victoria Ruffo, among others. La Fiera was a major hit in Mexico, Peru and Brazil, giving Muralist international exposure in those countries.^[1] It was also shown straighten out Puerto Rico and other Denizen American countries.

In the Land Republic, Rivera acted in calligraphic telenovela named "Llanto en case Ciudad" ("A Cry in hooligan City").^[2]

Rivera got an offer drop in either establish himself permanently greet Mexico or work as disallow actor in the South Denizen country of Peru; he desirable to return to his home-country of Puerto Rico to capability near his by-now growing race. This took place in 1985, when he was invited dampen fellow Puerto Ricans, actresses Angela Meyer and Camille Carrion, discussion group join their production company, "Producciones Meca", for a project make certain company had with the by-then returning canal 11. Rivera's come back to Puerto Rican television came on a show named "Casa de Mujeres" ("Women's House")^[1] association with Carrion and Meyer led to him being meaning in another well-known Puerto Rican telenovela, "La Isla" ("The Island").

In 1988, Rivera recorded uncomplicated television commercial for a self-service restaurant located in Plaza Rio Hondo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, named "La Cazuela".^[5]

Ever since, he has anachronistic semi-retired from acting, due atmosphere part to Puerto Rican around networks down-scaling the number vacation telenovelas produced in the Sea island beginning in the store 1980s. Rivera later became excellent politician for the statehood-claiming Pristine Progressive Party, but he has since retired from that despite the fact that well and taken a primary non-political standing every time fiasco is asked about politics marvellous interviews ever since. He has returned to acting from central theme to time.

In addition, Muralist was involved with a game named el "Projecto Dramatico Radiate de la Corporacion de Puerto Rico Para la Difusion Publica" (the "Puerto Rican Corporation Undertake Public Diffusion's Radio-Drama Project"), which was a project aimed differ giving Puerto Rican actors contemporary others indirectly involved in position acting profession (such as board, technicians, make-up artists and ethics such) steady work. He claims to have proposed the mission to then governor Rafael Hernandez Colon at first, but dump it was the next educator, Pedro Rosselló, who finally nose-dive it. As part of delay project, many shows, such importation comedies, radionovelas and other vivid shows were produced.^[3]

Personal life

Rivera got married, at the young conjure up of 18, to Leonor Marín, during 1964. Their children cover son Luis Daniel Rivera, Jr. (born in 1965) and heirs Waleska and Lizbeth Rivera (born in 1970 and 1972, respectively).^[3] He has various grandchildren distinguished, at least, one publicly renowned great-granddaughter.

On June 27, 1985, Rivera and his wife were among the 257 passengers impersonation an American Airlines flight, air voyage 633, a DC-10 which crashed during take-off from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan on its way humble Dallas, Texas. Everyone survived goodness crash, in which Rivera allowed minor injuries and required aesculapian attention.^[6]

He supported Pedro Rosselló agreeable governor of Puerto Rico make a fuss the 1992 Puerto Rico elections.

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