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J. Eduardo Eric del Castillo-Negrete Galván (born July 22, 1934 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico), is a Mexican actor of theatre, film and television who has dabbled as a screenwriter, director and arguer film, beginning his career in the cinema's golden era.
Del Castillo was born in the Juárez Hotel of the city of Celaya, Guanajuato. Eldest son of rural teacher Aurora Galván Valenzuela (1901-1992) and Eduardo Del Castillo-Negrete Rivera (1907–1948), firefighter who lost his life in the fire of the hardware store, the siren of the Mexico City.
His brothers are Federico (actor, 1936-1980) and Leopoldo. When he was young, his parents divorced and in 1945 his mother remarried. He studied in schools of Government in San Luis Potosí, and after the death of his father in 1948, the Government offered scholarships to the children of deceased firefighters so that they study in any school. Del Castillo was a rebellious youth, and on the instructions of his mother, in 1952 joined the Mexican seminary for foreign missions in the city of Mexico and militated in the Congregation of the missionaries of Guadalupe, priestly studies that abandoned in 1953. Not knowing what to do with his life, Del Castillo thought at some time studying medicine. However, his mother encouraged him to study acting and in 1954 joined the Film Institute, theatre and broadcasting of the National Association of actors (ANDA) directed by Andrés Soler.
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008).
Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in 1981's drama Taps and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Penn garnered critical attention for his roles in the crime dramas At Close Range (1986), State of Grace (1990) and later Carlito's Way (1993). He became known as a prominent leading actor with the 1995 drama Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Woody Allen's comedy-drama Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and the drama I Am Sam (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for Mystic River and a second one in 2008 for Milk. He has also won a Best Actor Award of the Cannes Film Festival for the Nick Cassavetes-directed She's So Lovely (1997), and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for the indie film Hurlyburly (1998) and the drama 21 Grams (2003).
Actors: Cuco Sánchez (actor), José Alonso (actor), Luis Aragón (actor), Augusto Benedico (actor), Valentin Pimstein (producer), Óscar Morelli (actor), Guillermo Orea (actor), Rubén Rojo (actor), Silvia Pasquel (actress), Fernando Wagner (director), Lilia Aragón (actress), Carmen Molina (actress), Enrique Aguilar (actor), Lupita Lara (actress), Aurora Molina (actress),
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance,