Sergio Corrieri

Cuban actor and cultural statesman whose screen work and political engagement shaped Cuban cinema and public life across five decades.

Sergio Corrieri - Personal Information

  • Name: Sergio Corrieri
  • Date of Birth: March 2, 1939
  • Place of Birth: Havana, Cuba
  • Date of Death: February 29, 2008
  • Gender: Male
  • Job Title: Actor
  • Crew Jobs: Script

Biography

Sergio Corrieri (3 March 1939 – 29 February 2008) was a Cuban actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival for his role in The Man from Maisinicu.

Corrieri was centrally involved with the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) from its foundation in 1959. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1980, and was made head of culture within the Central Committee in 1987. From 1976 he was also and a deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power, and a member of the Council of State in 1998–2003. Corrieri was president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) from 1990 until his death.

Selected Filmography

A look at the key screen roles that defined Sergio Corrieri's career in Cuban and international cinema.

  • Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women (2024) as Self (Voice)
  • I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005) as Self
  • Baraguá (1986) as Vicente García
  • Mina, viento de libertad (1977)
  • Río Negro (1977)
  • The Man from Maisinicu (1973)
  • Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) as Sergio Carmona Mendoyo
  • La ausencia (1968)
  • Desarraigo (1965) as Mario
  • I Am Cuba (1964) as Alberto

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