Acting
Jun 8, 1970
Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
Ramiro Meneses
Acting
Biography
Ramiro Meneses (Medellín Antioquia, June 9, 1970) is a Colombian actor, director and television producer. In 1990 he starred in the film Rodrigo D. No Futuro by Antioquian filmmaker Víctor Gaviria, where he played a dissatisfied young man who wanted to become a punk musician. In 1991 he had a prominent role in the telenovela Cuando quiero llorar no lloro playing Victorino Moya. In 1992 he acted in the comedy series Vuelo secreto and in the telenovela En cuerpo ajeno. From that moment on his acting career took a strong impulse, appearing in numerous film and television productions in Colombia and other countries. His filmography includes productions such as Golpe de estadio (1998), Perder es cuestión de método (2004) and Punto y raya (2005).
Feature Films (14)
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
Dark Blood
The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.
Time Out
Three different stories, one only true name: they born the same day, at the same time and on the same city... When they found each other at 18, an unexpected fate awaits them. (Video Resume shown in two videocassetes)
Los Victorinos
Helena suffers the loss of her parents. Between mourning and abandonment, she receives through dreams, messages that will make her delve into herself, and at the same time, follow the strange trail of someone who will change her existence.
Mephisto
Four young friends are obsessed with cinema: watching it, tasting it and, above all, making it. However, financial difficulties repeatedly truncate their great illusion. Desperate, they decide to make a cinematographic plot come true: to rob a bank to finance their film.
Kalibre 35
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
A mid-class Colombian family get into chaos when it's found out that the "Lord of the house", Benjamín, has been cheating on his wife for 20 years and has another son.
Dios los Junta y Ellos se Separan
1954, in the small mountain town of Colombia, Alfonso, an 11-year old boy whose mother passed away, doesn't have any family and to survive has no other recourse than to leave school and begin working as errand boy at a local pharmacy. There he learns all of the basic concepts of medicine, which changes his life in spectacular fashion.
The Errand Boy
Four men and two women illegaly board a cargo ship from Buenaventura, Colombia to New York. All their dreams and frustrations confronts them while they attempt not to be discovered by the ship crew. They all seek the "American Dream".
Ship of Dreams
Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.
Rodrigo D. No Future
Television & Series (9)
La Viuda Negra is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar de José Guarnizo based on history from Griselda Blanco.
Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow
The tragic story of Catalina Santana, whose ambition is so strong that she will risk her life due to her obsession with having bigger breasts to attract drug lords and have all the luxuries in the world.
Without Breasts There Is No Paradise
Chef at Home is a culinary competition, recorded simultaneously remotely and without the physical presence of professional film crews. Under the leadership of Chilean chef Chris Carpentier, this virtual challenge will have the famous participants demonstrate their talent and creativity to prepare the best dishes from their own homes. Each broadcast will feature three contestants (or couples) from Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, who will receive a basket with the same ingredients in their kitchens. Participating chefs and celebrities from each country must cook within a time limit to present original, creative and visually striking dishes. Additionally, as the competition progresses, participants must solve trivia and overcome some unexpected obstacles.
