Cuban actor César Évora is celebrating his birthday

The popular Cuban actorCesar Évora It's a birthday This Wednesday, November 4, the leading man of Mexican soap operas turned 61 years old.

One of César Évora's most popular roles was in the seriesYour own war, from where, together with Alberto Puyol, Enrique Molina and Jorge Villazón, he occupied a space in the police imagination of Cuban society in the eighties.

Playing the role of a State Security agent, César Évora appeared, young and thin, every week wearing a black shirt. That image of circumspection, austerity and elegance (very far from the reality of what a State Security agent can be) has been distinctive in his personality as an actor.

In Cuban cinema, César Évora is also remembered for the filmAnd successful man, del director Humberto Solás,or The Beauty of the Alhambra,by Enrique Pineda Barnet.

In the 90s he went to Mexico, where he continued his career as an actor in multiple soap operas such asLabyrinths of passion, Canaveral of passions, The spring, Hug me very tight, The privilege of loving, Between love and hate, The stepmother, Oabyss of passion; thus gaining many followers and maintaining his loyal Cuban followers inside and outside the island.

Among these soap operas, one of his most memorable roles is that of Gabrial Almada, a bohemian and passionate painter who competes for the great love of an unhappy wife who ends up murdered.

César Évora has shared the cast with other Latin American actors such as Victoria Ruffo, Maite Perroni, William Levy, Daniela Romo, Silvia Navarro, Cristian de la Fuente, Ana Brenda Contreras, Daniel Arenas and Elizabeth Alvarez , among others.

“Acting is a very demanding career, it is not easy at all […] It is a job to which you dedicate 24 hours a day. In my case, if I am dreaming or sleeping, I am thinking about how I am going to solve a scene, maybe a solution will come to me. That's how I live constantly, I do something else to distract myself, reading, watching a movie, and you can see me thinking about how I'm going to solve a scene," he said about his profession.

At 61 years old, César Évora is the father of three children (Rafael, Mariana and Carla) and is married to Vivian Domínguez, of whom he once said: “He is not only my right hand, my arms, my legs; She is my friend, my partner, my wife and my lover.”