Fernando Balzaretti

{{short description|Mexican actor}} {{Infobox person | name = Fernando Balzaretti | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|6|10|mf=y}} | birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|9|5|1946|6|10|mf=y}} | death_place = Mexico City, Mexico | othername = | spouse = }}

'''Fernando Balzaretti''' (June 10, 1946 – September 5, 1998) was a Mexican actor.

==Career== Balzaretti began his acting career in the 1960s and by the time of his death in 1998 had acted in at least 40 films, 21 telenovelas and 136 plays.<ref>{{cite news |title=Efemérides de espectáculos del 10 de junio |url=http://prensamexicana.com/efemerides-de-espectaculos-del-10-de-junio/ |work=Prensa Mexicana |language=es |date=10 June 2007 |accessdate=2015-07-01 }}</ref> He was also a professor of performing arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.<ref name="necrológica">{{cite news|title=Murió Fernando Balzaretti|work=El Informador|date=6 September 1998}}</ref>

==Awards== *Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor (1988) in ''Muelle Rojo''.<ref name="ariel">{{cite web|url=http://www.academiamexicanadecine.org.mx/ver_ariel.asp?tipo=ariel&idPersona=3821 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150701222734/http://www.academiamexicanadecine.org.mx/ver_ariel.asp?tipo=ariel&idPersona=3821 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-07-01 |title=Fernando Balzaretti |accessdate=2015-06-30 |publisher=Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas |language=es }}</ref> *''Virginia Fábregas Medal'', 1994.<ref name=galardones>{{cite news|title=Fernando Balzaretti define al cine méxicano como un "cine luchón"|work=El Informador|date=1 August 1994}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Length of War'' (1976) * ''Mina, Wind of Freedom'' (1977) * ''Broken Flag'' (1978) * ''Días dificiles'' (1988) (Ariel nominee for Best Actor) * ''Muelle rojo'' (1988) (Ariel winner for Best Supporting Actor) * ''Kino'' (1994) (Ariel nominee for Best Supporting Actor)

==See also== * Mexican people of Italian descent

==References== <references />

==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0051316|name=Fernando Balzaretti}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Balzaretti, Fernando}} Category:1946 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Male actors from Mexico City Category:Mexican male telenovela actors Category:Mexican male film actors Category:Mexican people of Italian descent Category:20th-century Mexican male actors Category:Best Supporting Actor Ariel Award winners Category:Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico