Diego Vélez

Acting

Diego Vélez

Born

1950-08-02 (76)

Place of birth

Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Diego Vélez García (Cali, August 2, 1950) is a Colombian film and television actor.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

The History of the Pink Trunk poster
6.0

In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with an inquisitive journalist Hipólito Mosquera while trying to solve the mysterious case. Nobody knows who the girl is, or who put her in the trunk. The things turn bad when Mosquera publish the news in the local newspaper. With the help of a bartender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?

The History of the Pink Trunk

2005

Juanito Under the Orange Tree poster
NR

In Colombia, among grandmothers, parents and grandchildren, we play to believe that if we eat the orange seeds, a small orange tree will be born in our body. During childhood we thought it could be possible.

Juanito Under the Orange Tree

2007

Bolivar Is Me poster
6.4

A 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

El Rey poster
7.0

Cali, Colombia, 1970s. The fictional story of Pedro Rey, the first drug trafficker and drug lord.

El Rey

2004

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

The Maximum Penalty poster
8.1

After seeing how the Colombian National Football Team achieves a draw against Argentina, Mariano Concha —a public employee for whom football is a great passion— starts a whole process to attend the next crucial match, in Bogotá and against the same team, going over all his duties and risking the future of his reduced economy. An unexpected event transforms his plans to go to the stadium.

The Maximum Penalty

2001

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits