Salvador del Solar

Acting

Salvador del Solar

Born

1970-05-01 (56)

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Salvador del Solar (born in Lima in 1970) is a Peruvian actor, director, and lawyer. After graduating with a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and studying at Alberto Ísola's workshop, he rose to international fame starring in the acclaimed film Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1999). Expanding his career, he wrote and directed the film Magallanes (2015), establishing himself as a prominent filmmaker. He has also been involved in Peruvian politics, serving as Minister of Culture (2017) and President of the Council of Ministers (2019).

Known for

Pobre Diabla poster
2.0

Pobre diabla is a Peruvian telenovela which starred Angie Cepeda, Salvador del Solar, Arnaldo André and María Cristina Lozada. It was produced by América Producciónes and broadcast on América Televisión in 2000.

Pobre Diabla

2000

Delirium poster
6.7

When his wife Agustina falls into delirium, a professor delves into her dark past to piece together her story and uncover the cause of her madness.

Delirium

2025

Amores de mercado poster
7.7

Amores De Mercado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica. This show was retitled simply Amores in mid-run. Head writer Basilio Alvarez was replaced by Eric Vonn and the storylines and characters went in a new direction. When Telemundo reaired the show in daytime in 2009, the shorter title was used for the entire series. BTV started to air this telenovela on November 22, 2006 in Bulgaria.

Amores de mercado

2006

The return of Lucas poster
2.0

The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other children, Catalina and Juan, and her husband, Reynaldo, who took charge of the family and the company. After 20 years of the disappearance of Lucas, a photo of his son arrives at the mother's hands. A new track to follow that renews Elena's hopes of finding her son. Until one day, a young man shows up at the house of the Diaz Ayala family claiming to be Lucas. Will he be his lost son?

The return of Lucas

2016

Amar y temer poster
NR

Amar y temer is a 2011 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Amar y temer

2011

Pataclaun poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pataclaun

1997

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

A World For Julius poster
7.3

Julius is an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1940s. He lives in a palace with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years go by, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices.

A World For Julius

2021

La Gran Sangre: Ojo por ojo poster
NR

Two decades later, Tony Blades, Mandril, and El Dragón are released from prison to confront a mafia controlling the Rímac district. In a Lima plagued by extortion and contract killings, the iconic vigilante group returns without a shred of mercy, ready to fight crime by their own rules.

La Gran Sangre: Ojo por ojo

2026

How to Deal with a Heartbreak poster
7.1

María Fe, still single but not so sought after, faces the existential crisis and the blank page as any mature and sensible woman would: by getting involved with the wrong guy.

How to Deal with a Heartbreak

2023

Women on the Edge poster
5.8

After meeting in an anger management group, two women embark on a journey of empowerment and friendship when they set out to expose a surgeon with a suspicious reputation.

Women on the Edge

2023

Astronaut poster
NR

Nicolás is a well-known TV presenter and a frustrated writer who appears to lead a successful life, both professionally and romantically. However, just as he’s about to move into the wonderful new house he’s bought with his wife, he encounters an old soul who prompts him to question his monotonous life by recounting fantastic stories. Thanks to this strange new presence in his life and the rekindling of his old love for writing, Nicolás will search for true happiness.

Astronaut

2025

2000s · 8 titles

El atraco poster
6.9

No synopsis available yet.

El atraco

2004

No artwork available
NR

The relationships between a couple in love and the father of one of them, set against a tense, stifling atmosphere. It won the award for Best Fiction Short Film at the Second Cusco National Short Film Festival (2005).

Besando a tu papá

2005

Piratas en el Callao poster
2.8

A young boy travels back to the 17th century to battle pirates off the coast of Peru.

Piratas en el Callao

2005

El bien esquivo poster
8.0

A mestizo (mixed race) Spanish and Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate.

El bien esquivo

2001

El acuarelista poster
5.8

A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.

El acuarelista

2008

Write Me - Postcards to Copacabana poster
5.1

Impulsado por la curiosidad y el afán de conocer nuevos mundos, el joven Alois, deja su patria bávara y, pasando por las profundidades del Walchensee (lago cerca de Munich), emerge de las aguas del lago Titicaca, en Bolivia. En Copacabana, Alois se casa con Elena con quien explora el enigmático mundo andino; tienen un único hijo, piloto civil, que muere muy joven en un accidente aéreo, dejando huérfana a su hija Alfonsina y viuda a Rosa, su bella esposa, que trabaja de azafata. Algunos años después muere también Alois, dejando completamente solas a las tres mujeres. Alfonsina, ahora una linda muchacha de 14 años, crece en un ambiente de mezcla cultural, entre música, dirndl * , jarras de cerveza, sincretismo andino y ch´allas. ... *dirndl: Traje típico de Bavaria

Write Me - Postcards to Copacabana

2009

Bala perdida poster
5.2

A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.

Bala perdida

2001

Muero por Muriel poster
NR

The plot revolves around a love triangle between Bernie, Muriel's husband, who hires the services of a detective named Oso to investigate his wife. To this is added the participation of Felix, who is the supposed lover.

Muero por Muriel

2007

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Pobre Diabla poster
2.0

Pobre diabla is a Peruvian telenovela which starred Angie Cepeda, Salvador del Solar, Arnaldo André and María Cristina Lozada. It was produced by América Producciónes and broadcast on América Televisión in 2000.

Pobre Diabla

2000

Delirium poster
6.7

When his wife Agustina falls into delirium, a professor delves into her dark past to piece together her story and uncover the cause of her madness.

Delirium

2025

Amores de mercado poster
7.7

Amores De Mercado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica. This show was retitled simply Amores in mid-run. Head writer Basilio Alvarez was replaced by Eric Vonn and the storylines and characters went in a new direction. When Telemundo reaired the show in daytime in 2009, the shorter title was used for the entire series. BTV started to air this telenovela on November 22, 2006 in Bulgaria.

Amores de mercado

2006

The return of Lucas poster
2.0

The return of Lucas tells the story of a well-off family who loses his eldest son, Lucas, 4 years old on the beach. Elena, his mother, is obsessed with finding him because he feels he is alive and never stops looking for him, neglecting his other children, Catalina and Juan, and her husband, Reynaldo, who took charge of the family and the company. After 20 years of the disappearance of Lucas, a photo of his son arrives at the mother's hands. A new track to follow that renews Elena's hopes of finding her son. Until one day, a young man shows up at the house of the Diaz Ayala family claiming to be Lucas. Will he be his lost son?

The return of Lucas

2016

Amar y temer poster
NR

Amar y temer is a 2011 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Amar y temer

2011

Pataclaun poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pataclaun

1997

Los Prisioneros poster
7.1

Follows the life of the three members of "Los Prisioneros" during key moments of their careers. As they become an iconic band, and still today resonate.

Los Prisioneros

2022

Regreso a la guaca poster
7.1

After serving part of his sentence in a military prison for having appropriated a millionaire FARC cove, Lieutenant Solórzano and his men regain their freedom, but they find themselves with a bleak reality. Outside the army, they are men singled out by society, penniless and haunted by the shadow of their past.

Regreso a la guaca

2009

Sin retorno poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sin retorno

2008

2091 poster
6.0

It's the year 2091. The best seven gamers in the world are recruited by a powerful company to travel to the moon of Calisto and play against each other at an extreme video game. But everything will change when one of them, discovers the sinister truth that hides within the game that may put their own lives in danger.

2091

2016

Sin Verguenza poster
10.0

Sin Vergüenza is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series about four beautiful, yet very different women, resembles a latin version of Sex in the City meets Desperate Housewives. Venezuelan actress Gaby Espino stars. The series ran up to three seasons and up to 45 minutes with commercials.

Sin Verguenza

2007

Correo de Inocentes poster
8.7

Pilar is used as a human mail for drug trafficking since she needs the money to help her daughter. In prison he studies law in order to help people who are used as human mail.

Correo de Inocentes

2011

Amor de Madre poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor de Madre

2015

Comando Elite poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comando Elite

2013

Comando Elite poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Comando Elite

2013

Behind the camera

Magallanes poster
7.6

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Magallanes

2015

Magallanes poster
7.6

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Magallanes

2015

Ramón and Ramón poster
6.8

During the COVID-19 lockdown in Lima, Ramón, a gay man in his thirties, receives the ashes of his estranged father. Unable to hold a funeral, he sets out to return the remains to his father’s native village of Mito. Along the way, he meets Mateo, a striking traveler grounded by the pandemic. Despite curfews, masks, and distancing, an unexpected bond forms. They dance, laugh, and grow attuned to each other’s presence, their closeness charged with quiet intimacy and unspoken possibility. As they journey into the Andean highlands, Ramón is drawn not only to Mateo but also to a deeper confrontation with grief, memory, and the hope of healing.

Ramón and Ramón

2025

Ramón and Ramón poster
6.8

During the COVID-19 lockdown in Lima, Ramón, a gay man in his thirties, receives the ashes of his estranged father. Unable to hold a funeral, he sets out to return the remains to his father’s native village of Mito. Along the way, he meets Mateo, a striking traveler grounded by the pandemic. Despite curfews, masks, and distancing, an unexpected bond forms. They dance, laugh, and grow attuned to each other’s presence, their closeness charged with quiet intimacy and unspoken possibility. As they journey into the Andean highlands, Ramón is drawn not only to Mateo but also to a deeper confrontation with grief, memory, and the hope of healing.

Ramón and Ramón

2025