
Acting
Bogotá, DC, Colombia
Andrés Castañeda
Acting
Biography
Bogotá (Colombia). Interdisciplinary artist, actor, performer and director. He holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts from the Universidad Francisco José de Caldas and a Master's degree in Theater and Live Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. As a scholarship holder at the Conservatory of Music of the same university, he was director of the staging of the opera workshop. Since 2002 he is part of Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de Artistas as actor, performer and researcher. He has developed his work in theater, film and television. His most recent film performance was as the protagonist of The Beauty and The Moody
Feature Films (12)

A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
Quicksand

A special commando unit made up of 9 soldiers is sent to a military base in a moorland region after contact was lost and it was believed to have been the target of an attack. Upon arrival, they find a single mysterious survivor: a woman in chains.
The Squad

Meet Cheo Martinez, the neighbor you do not want to have and whose time has come when his neighbors, tired of putting up with him, hire Carolina Rico, a beautiful and audacious escort, to make him fall in love and get him out of the building. What will happen when Cheo falls into the tricks of love and Carolina’s dark past reaches her?
The Beauty and the Moody

When his father dies, Eliécer is left in charge of his half-sister. The decision not to take responsibility, forces him to the mission to take the girl to the capital to find her mother who abandoned her when she was a baby.
The Red Tree

When Georgina dies, her husband Alcides tries to give her a dignified funeral, which is quite difficult, because they have no money and are living in the poorest district of Bogotá.
She

A man in chains, a young man who dreams of being part of something, to become a militant for an armed group who must wield a cruelty in which he may not believe in. The characters, each voluntary or involuntary part of a mechanism that overcomes them, reveal their greatness or misery in the “minimum” tasks that they perform to survive. From that sometimes morbid poetry of the everyday and the irrefutable truth of the details, we see a country whose social body is sick and injured.
Violence

Marcos, a withdrawn park ranger, sees the fragile balance achieved in his isolation collapse with the arrival of a couple of biologists investigating strange bird deaths. Unfortunately, the desire and envy for normality represented by the couple awaken the monster he has been trying to control. His face, his legs, and his arms don’t belong to him and as the desperation becomes incontrollable, he can only see one way out: mutilation.
The Sacrifice

Ramiro Guerrero, a successful professional, is wrongly accused of a devastating crime. With his life in shambles, he fights to prove his innocence while facing a web of corruption and danger.
Wherever You Want
Television & Series (7)

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.
Green Frontier

Colonel Diana Manrique, who after infiltrating and achieving the capture of an important drug trafficker, seeks a respite to try to rebuild her marriage with Jorge Ramírez. However, his plans change when he receives the most critical mission from the Intelligence Unit: to dismantle the "Clan del Norte", a criminal organization led by the dangerous Uriel Zurria.
Verdad oculta

La Victoria is a town that could well be defined as a green hell where the law of the strongest prevails, fueled by the greed that emeralds arouse. The Guerrero family will arrive at this place. Alejandro Guerrero, father of Ricardo, Eduardo and Olga Guerrero, is forced to take his family to this distant place, where the emerald boom produces episodes of blood and fire that are repeated from generation to generation. In the midst of this war, Alejandro will have to face Patricio Ortega, great Patron of the region, since his arrival, not only for having opposite principles, but also for having the misfortune that the woman most desired by the Patron, fixes his eyes and your heart on it.
Emeralds

Lehder changed the drug trade forever when he decided to buy an island 340 km off the coast of Florida in the 1970s. He was the first major Colombian drug lord to be extradited and tried in the US in 1987: he served a 30-year prison sentence and is now a free man.







