Cuban actor Abel Rodríguez dies at 50

Cuban actor Abel Rodríguez, who spent most of his career outside of Cuba, with work in film, television and theater in the United States, Colombia and Spain, died in Miami of a pulmonary embolism, local media reported this Friday.

In the cinema, the most recent role of Abel Rodríguez, who was 50 years old, was in "Horse", a 2021 film directed by Cuban filmmaker exiled in Miami Lilo Vilaplana, for whom he also worked on "Planted" and in the series "Memories of exile".

Vilaplana, a friend of Rodríguez, told América Tevé that the actor had been hospitalized for days because of a thrombus, which caused a cardiorespiratory arrest and, finally, brain death.

Abel Rodríguez was born in Havana in 1971 and studied acting at the National School of Art.

His first outings on stage were with the Rita Montaner theater group, in which he worked for two years. Then with the company El Público he spent seven months in Spain to present the work "Caligula".

He also triumphed in Cuba in film and television. For his work in "Scent oak" won an award for best supporting actor at the 2003 Havana Film Festival, his leading role in the telenovela "Nightlife" It earned him the recognition of the Cuban public.

Several actors from the films in which he acted in Miami remembered today on social networks with affection.

"I was left with your smile, your joy and with every moment … fly high"wrote actor Fabian Brando.

"Aside from being a very talented actor, he was a great human being. To do it justice we must not be sad. We must remember him as the joyous man he always was"asked the actor Mijail Mulkay, who worked with Rodríguez in the early days of both on Cuban television.

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From Cuba Rodríguez left for Colombia in 2004, where he also made a career in film and television and met the Colombian actress Anna López, with whom he married and had the youngest of their three children.

In Colombia he participated in soap operas "The Mafia Widow", "For love","Summer in Venice", "The clone", "Chepe Fortuna", "Celia" and "Thief words", among others, and was part of the cast of the television adaptation of the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa "The party of the goat".

In cinema highlights his participation in "Everyone leaves", based on the novel by Wendy Guerra and directed by Colombian Sergio Cabrera, and on "The Mauthausen Photographer", directed by Mar Targarona and starring Mario Casas and Macarena Gómez.

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