Andrés Parra

Acting

Andrés Parra

Born

1977-09-18 (49)

Place of birth

Cali, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Andrés Parra was born in Cali on September 18, 1977. With more than 20 years of experience in the field of acting, he has had the responsibility to prove himself as an actor in theater, film and television, leaving an impression on the public and critics with which he is gradually consolidating as one of the most versatile and enigmatic actors in the country and Latin America, something that has allowed him to be awarded with different prizes both nationally and internationally.

Known for

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord poster
7.7

Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord

2012

El Presidente poster
7.2

Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

El Presidente

2020

Maria Magdalena poster
7.4

Maria Magdalena, a woman different than the others and capable of challenging a corrupt society completely dominated by men, is faced with evils and betrayals forcing her to escape her homeland and attempt to forget her past. On the verge of her death, she meets Jesus – a man who will teach her the true meaning of love, a love so pure she will regain her faith and will to live. She will transform from an excluded, outcast, and vilified woman to one of the most important disciples of the Nazarene prophet.

Maria Magdalena

2018

The First Lady poster
6.5

Paloma, a humble young woman, has only one dream: to become the First Lady of Colombia. To achieve this, she will have to leave her past behind and win the heart of the future president, Leonardo Santander. Amidst underhanded tactics and betrayals, the young woman's ambition will leave victims in its wake.

The First Lady

2011

Football Dreams poster
8.0

The Selection is a review of the exciting world of football and the eventful lives of four emblematic players of the Colombian National Team: Carlos Valderrama, Freddy Rincón, René Higuita and Faustino Asprilla.

Football Dreams

2013

Hugo Chávez, El Comandante poster
7.3

The life of Hugo Chavez; from childhood, his arrival to power, confrontations, and loves to his last days as president.

Hugo Chávez, El Comandante

2017

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 8 titles

Heroic Losers poster
7.6

In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.

Heroic Losers

2019

Orbiter 9 poster
5.8

Helena, a young woman on a deep space mission, has been alone for 20 years. Her parents abandoned ship after a technical malfunction made it impossible for all three of them to reach their intended destination. Alex, an isolated engineer, is about to enter her life and turn her world upside down.

Orbiter 9

2017

The Snitch Cartel poster
7.2

The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"

The Snitch Cartel

2011

La semilla del silencio poster
7.0

Maria del Rosario Duran, a human rights attorney investigating the participation of a top ranking military man in the disappearance of a group of young civilians, is mysteriously murdered. Detective Jorge Salcedo who was working with her on the case, gives himself to the task of discovering who's behind this crime, at risk of becoming the next victim.

La semilla del silencio

2015

The Vanished Elephant poster
6.0

A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.

The Vanished Elephant

2014

Sanandresito poster
5.2

In San Andresito, anything can be found: From trendy shoes or expensive perfumes, to cellphones, candies and movies. In this place, Agent Wilson Tenorio is falsely accused of murder and must prove his innocence to save his life.

Sanandresito

2012

No artwork available
NR

A professional assassin is interrupted in the middle of a hit.

A Friendly Encounter

2017

Siempreviva poster
7.7

The economy is not doing well and in a few months Lucia will lose the mortgaged house where she lives with her two children, Mr. Carlos the owner of the Second-hand store, Sergio, Clown by day, waiter by night, and his wife Victoria. Julieta, the youngest child, is the family's salvation. She just graduated from law school when, on the morning of November 6, 1985, she leaves for her job at the Palace of Justice and never returns. There are witnesses that claim to have seen her alive after the Palace burned down after the Guerilla attack, the habitants lives of the house won't be the same. Based on true events and on a play in Colombia, 1985.

Siempreviva

2015

2000s · 7 titles

Love in the Time of Cholera poster
6.6

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Love in the Time of Cholera

2007

Dr. Alemán poster
5.4

Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly for shotgun wounds, while in the streets he falls in love with a stall-holder who cares for some of the children involved in drug trafficking and criminal violence. Alienating his colleagues and his host family while befriending the kids, he soon finds himself trapped in the center of the violent conflict between the gangs and has to come to a decision.

Dr. Alemán

2008

The Passion of Gabriel poster
7.5

In a small hamlet in the Colombian mountains, a newly appointed padre Father Gabriel finds himself torn between his spiritual calling and his desires for a young woman named Silvia, while also trying to protect his congregation from being drawn into the increasingly violent battles between the government military and rebel forces that surround the town.

The Passion of Gabriel

2009

Satanás - Profile of a Killer poster
7.1

Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.

Satanás - Profile of a Killer

2007

Pearl Necklace poster
NR

Laura eventually works for a group of obscure characters with whom she must settle an outstanding account, her activity is to leave some recorded messages to some numbers that they dial, the situation becomes complicated when she arrives home and finds that one of the messages that caused her great impact by recording it, was directly to her partner.

Pearl Necklace

2007

The Deal poster
9.0

Based on a true story of a British television crew that travelled to Colombia to film a fake documentary about drug trafficking. In one scene, shot in the director’s hotel room, an actor played the part of a character whom the filmmakers passed off as Cali Cartel’s Number Three. They claimed they had risked their lives to get the interview. One sequence also shows a man pretending to swallow capsules of heroine and transporting them to London in his stomach. This phoney TV documentary is an international smash hit. When a London daily discovers that the whole thing is a hoax, a team of British journalists are sent out to Colombia to cover the story. Their report unleashes a scandal that shakes the very foundations of television in the UK.

The Deal

2005

Chronic City poster
NR

Covering news of impact in Bogotá has become a personal race between Roco and Matías, two contemporary journalists who are reaching their fifties, determined to be the first to get red notices for their editors. 30 years dedicated to competing for the most macabre news, they are driven to cross paths through death, in a desolate and hostile city that offers them no shelter or company.

Chronic City

2005

Series credits

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord poster
7.7

Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord

2012

El Presidente poster
7.2

Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

El Presidente

2020

Maria Magdalena poster
7.4

Maria Magdalena, a woman different than the others and capable of challenging a corrupt society completely dominated by men, is faced with evils and betrayals forcing her to escape her homeland and attempt to forget her past. On the verge of her death, she meets Jesus – a man who will teach her the true meaning of love, a love so pure she will regain her faith and will to live. She will transform from an excluded, outcast, and vilified woman to one of the most important disciples of the Nazarene prophet.

Maria Magdalena

2018

The First Lady poster
6.5

Paloma, a humble young woman, has only one dream: to become the First Lady of Colombia. To achieve this, she will have to leave her past behind and win the heart of the future president, Leonardo Santander. Amidst underhanded tactics and betrayals, the young woman's ambition will leave victims in its wake.

The First Lady

2011

Football Dreams poster
8.0

The Selection is a review of the exciting world of football and the eventful lives of four emblematic players of the Colombian National Team: Carlos Valderrama, Freddy Rincón, René Higuita and Faustino Asprilla.

Football Dreams

2013

Hugo Chávez, El Comandante poster
7.3

The life of Hugo Chavez; from childhood, his arrival to power, confrontations, and loves to his last days as president.

Hugo Chávez, El Comandante

2017

The Lethal Tele poster
4.5

Colombian talk show

The Lethal Tele

2017

Protectors poster
8.5

In this Argentine dramedy set in the soccer world, three sports agents form an alliance in order to save their businesses. Together, they launch Protectores S.A., an agency that not only seeks to protect the financial interests of their players, but also strives to keep them away from unsavory temptations and "fix" the unexpected problems they kick their way into.

Protectors

2022

Futuro desierto poster
7.8

A robotics engineer moves with his family to Mexico to secretly test humanoid androids, investigating the emotional dilemmas and clashes between humans and artificial beings.

Futuro desierto

2026

The Great Heist poster
7.3

Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.

The Great Heist

2020

The Witch poster
7.3

The Witch is a 2011 Colombian telenovela starring Flora Martínez, based on the novel of the same name by Colombian writer Germán Castro Caycedo.

The Witch

2011

Besieged poster
4.3

For three years, 500 Spaniards brutally attacked the indigenous peoples native in the south of Chile. This story is told from the perspective of the colonizing army as they are almost completely eliminated in their attempt to conquer a foreign land.

Besieged

2015

Fugue State 1986 poster
8.0

León and Jeremías' friendship, bonded by literature, shatters when one of them commits an unforgivable act of violence in Bogotá.

Fugue State 1986

2025

La Suegra poster
NR

Victoria Maldonado Jackeline Arenal makes a decision that is necessary for her, to move in with her son. She must bear the insults, and the bad reputation of the mothers-in-law, denying, and showing the benefits and benefits of being a mother-in-law.

La Suegra

2014

Mariana & Scarlett poster
7.0

"Mariana & Scarlett" centers on two sisters with dreams of fashion success. Their close bond is tested when they fall for the same man, Roberto. Set in the glamorous fashion world, the telenovela explores the complexity of sisterhood, love, and ambition, leading to a dramatic love triangle filled with betrayal.

Mariana & Scarlett

2010

El encantador poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El encantador

2010