Javier Valdés

Acting

Javier Valdés

Born 1959-06-10 · Lima, Peru

Javier Fernando Valdés Garrido Lecca (Lima, June 10, 1959) is a leading Peruvian actor and theater director. From a very young age he showed his artistic vocation, having Adolfo Chuiman as his acting teacher during his school days, and then Gustavo Bueno. He studied at the Santa Margarita School. Even as a teenager he made his first appearance on television (in a character as the son of the artist Mabel Duclós), in the television program called Teatro de Pepe Vilar. Later he would travel to Spain to continue his artistic training. He made his debut in soap operas in Solo por ti, after rejecting a co-starring role in Bajo tu Piel. In 2007, he participated in the Hispanic Demonstration in New York. Valdés is known for his participation in several soap operas such as Canela or Luz María. He has been dedicated to acting for many years and, part of his knowledge was acquired in Spain where he studied Interpretation at the Cristina Rota School in Madrid. He also teaches several acting workshops.

Acting credits

Larco Ave.: The Movie poster
5.8

Based on a theater musical, this movie is set in the city of Lima, Peru during the end of the 80's. The plot is about a group of youngsters from Lima who are participating in a contest for the best new Peruvian rock band. All these while they have to deal with the worst economic situation in Peru, corrupt leaders and terrorism that is rampant throughout the country. Features very popular Peruvian rock songs from the 80's and 90's.

Larco Ave.: The Movie

2017

El Instante poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El Instante

2022

Lady Nazca poster
7.3

With the second World War looming and having lost everything before, Maria Reiche flees Germany and ends up in Peru. There, she tries to fit in an inhibited society for the sake of her lover Amy. But she only starts to find her true calling in life when she takes a trip to the desert of Nazca and stumbles upon mysterious Lines, drawn in the soil. Against all odds, against everyone, Maria ties her destiny to the Nazca lines, and takes on the mission to find their meaning. A journey that will throw her into tremendous trouble and danger - but also give her a sense of peace, at last, as she finally finds where she belongs, sweeping the desert.

Lady Nazca

2025

Pendientes poster
NR

A love that seems to be eternal begins to end. Aurelio will do everything possible to make his inheritance fall into the hands of the love of his life, Ricardo, once he dies.

Pendientes

2023

El sueño de Ariana poster
7.0

Ariana is a student at an Agronomy university. One day, during a Veterinary Course, the students and Muro, the professor, witness the outbreak of an unknown virus, very similar to rabies, and they must take action.

El sueño de Ariana

2022

Hasta siempre poster
NR

Little Alicia and her grandmother have no place in their troubled family. Tired of so much indifference, they seek to escape this reality.

Hasta siempre

2015

The Hanged Man poster
4.6

Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.

The Hanged Man

2009

Asia, el culo del mundo poster
NR

Manuel is a young man who only cares about money and the good life. He has a bad relationship with his father, who is an old retired colonel who lives remembering his past military glory and has a permanent conflict with Manuel.

Asia, el culo del mundo

1992

Gods poster
4.9

A Peruvian teen lusts after his wild sister while the new wife of their difficult, wealthy father tries to hide her lower-class background.

Gods

2008

Somnotoscopio poster
NR

At the beginning of the 20th century, an obsessive inventor builds a machine capable of recording dreams.

Somnotoscopio

2016

Destiny Has No Favorites poster
6.0

Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.

Destiny Has No Favorites

2003

Sugar en aprietos poster
1.0

Mariana, a talkative and fun young woman, has the opportunity to be sent to university thanks to the charity of a benefactor who sponsors the city's municipal orphanage where she has lived all her life and is an assistant to the institution.

Sugar en aprietos

2022

Guerrero: The Movie poster
8.4

At age ten, Paolo asks his mother he wants to meet his father, an unknown soccer player who retired early due to an injury. The boy does not know it, but the reunion with his father and with his discipline, incites in him a change of character that will turn him into the professional soccer player that all Peruvians know well; the warrior, the fighter. Paolo with the help of his neighborhood friends and with all the support from his mother, manages to overcome obstacles and fulfill his dream.

Guerrero: The Movie

2016

Dos Besos poster
6.4

The linking of three characters in a kind of mutual deceit. Different points of view, attitudes and a look at relationships marked by social and cultural differences.

Dos Besos

2015

No artwork available
NR

A 50-year-old man goes swimming every day in a secluded pool. One day, when he arrives at the pool, he finds a woman in his usual lane.

La nadadora

2016

Then, Mother poster
NR

A daughter rejoins her exiled father for a weekend at the farm where she spent her childhood. Before taking a very important decision in her life, she seeks to find answers about her past, in a relationship where the violence is left unseen.

Then, Mother

2022

The Solar System poster
6.2

The Dessola family, who has never met in the past two years, has finally gathered together on Christmas Eve this year. Leonardo is a politician who has been busy with work for many years and neglects his family. On Christmas Eve, he took his girlfriend back to his hometown and his family reunion - son Pavel, daughter Adul and 9-year-old grandson Buri, what is it, His current girlfriend is Pavel's ex-girlfriend. The rare reunion has gradually become a battlefield of new hatred and old hatred, and every family member has something to say. The night is still very long, how should the Dysola family end this rare Christmas Eve in this chaos?

The Solar System

2017

El Abuelo poster
8.0

Grandpa is about to turn 80. His son and grandsons begin a journey to his homeland, Huamachuco, a place he has not seen since he was 9 years old. Along the way they discover an unexpected past and the journey will become a path of no return.

El Abuelo

2017

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