Acting
Sep 22, 1970
Vélez, Santander, Colombia
Toto Vega
Acting
Biography
Ariosto Vega, better known as Toto Vega (Vélez, September 23, 1970 - San Gil, September 26, 2022) was a Colombian film, theater and television actor. He also worked as a cultural manager. Vega's Colombian television career began in the early 1990s with a participation in the telenovela La mujer doble. During the decade he participated in other productions such as El oasis, De pies a cabeza, Fuego verde and El fiscal. His participation in the 2000s was very active, appearing in series such as Me llaman Lolita, Sofía dame tiempo, Todos quieren con Marilyn, Los Reyes and Las detectivas y el Víctor and in the film La pasión de Gabriel. He also participated in the film Armero and in the series Alias JJ, Amo de casa and La ley secreta. The actor suffered a fainting spell during the celebration of the Green Film Festival in Barichara, Santander, event of which he was founder and director. He was taken to a hospital in the municipality of San Gil, where he died in the early morning of September 26, 2022. The media reported that it was a heart attack.
Feature Films (6)
A man who returns home after a long absence to heal wounds and reconcile with his past.
Las horas contadas
This movie explores the complex creative process behind a film, as the actor, director, and screenwriter confront their personal and professional conflicts. Amid egos, artistic visions, and market pressures, they must find a way to collaborate and overcome their differences to bring the project to life.
El Actor, el Director y la Guionista
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
Television & Series (5)
As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.
Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ
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
The Law of the Heart is a story that takes place in a successful law firm specializing in family law, specializing in divorce cases and, in general, in family and relationship conflicts. The decisions these lawyers make often affect them both inside and outside the office and in the courts. Some of them are guided by the law, but others are guided by their hearts—two paths that don't always go hand in hand when it comes to resolving legal conflicts.
Heart's Decree
Me Llaman Lolita is a Spanish-language telenovela, which premiered on Colombia's RCN TV in 1999. Carla Giraldo and Manuela Gonzáles share the title role. The serial focuses on the beautiful young woman's love for a handsome older man, Esteban, even though some suspect that he is her long-lost father.