Acting
Carlos Barbosa
Born 1944-04-15 · Cali, Colombia
Carlos Alfonso Barbosa Romero (Cali, January 15, 1944 – Bogotá, October 9, 2025) was a Colombian actor and director of television, film, and theater. Barbosa earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Valle in Cali, where he was part of the university’s theater group, which later became the Department of Performing Arts. He later joined the National Theater Company of Colombia, which went on a tour that ended in Costa Rica. Afterward, he moved to San Andrés and Providencia before returning to Bogotá, where he joined the cast of the Teatro Popular de Bogotá (TPB). His television debut took place in 1969 in the telenovela Candó. Among his most memorable television roles are Eurípides, a gay hairdresser, in the 1986 telenovela El Divino; the doorman of the apartment building where the Casas family lived in the children’s show Imagínate (1988); and Ernesto in the comedy series Vuelo secreto (1992–1998). Carlos Barbosa also appeared in La saga: negocio de familia (2004) and Bermúdez (2009), in which he played Gerardo Bermúdez. In 2010, he portrayed Abdul in El clon, a Telemundo production. He passed away on October 9, 2025, at his home in Bogotá, after battling multiple myeloma for two months, a condition that progressively worsened.
Acting credits
10.0With humor and satire, developers and pirates who emerge as candidates of the people reveal themselves as professionals. They are behind the figure of candidate Climaco Urrutia U.
El candidato
1978
2.0Portrait of a traditional, rich and decadent family from Bogotá, dominated by evil Brigida "the grandmother" who mistreat her sons and daughters to please his favorite grandson "Hernancito".
The Grandmother
1979
8.0A family of peasants must live in the chaotic big city.
Ayer me echaron del Pueblo
1982
3.0A young peasant woman moves to Bogotá in search of work and ends up as a domestic servant for a middle-class family, where she witnesses the breakdown of a conflict-ridden marriage. At the same time, she faces the aftermath of rural violence while trying to adapt to life in the big city.
Pisingaña
1986
6.4A soap opera actor wants to finish Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia": a super-state of 5 Latin-American countries to stop institutional chaos, lack of opportunity and ignite the rebuilding of the region after 160 years of internal war.
Bolivar Is Me
2002
6.5With a short life expectancy, a young woman uses faith and her vivid imagination to navigate adversity and create a story that impacts around her.
Holy Expectations
2019
4.0Three humble Colombian construction workers, known as “Rusos,” travel all the way to Russia to fulfill a promise and support the Colombian national soccer team at the World Cup. Along the way, they are mistaken for dangerous Moscow spies, leading them into an unexpected adventure full of humor, action, and absurd situations, driven by their faith and love for football.
Y nos fuimos pal' mundial
2018