Profiles: César Mora | Proimágenes Colombia

Born in Cali, Colombia. Internationally known for his work on the stage, in films and on TV as well as the composer, director and lead vocalist with the Maria Canela Orquestra. “It may sound cliché, but I started at school. I used to wear my dad’s suits, dreamed of inheriting them one day, but he only ever let me use them in December. I organized theater groups, put on plays by a guy called Chekov without knowing who he was; much later I learned I had been doing plays like “The Bear” and “The Anniversary” since I was 12,” Mora told TV y Novelas Magazine in 1990.
 
In the 1970s, he studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional where he joined MOIR (Workers’ Independent Revolutionary Movement) then went on to found the band “El son del pueblo” and was part of the Artists Cultural Front, which later became the Teatro Libre. His professional career began here, as a founding member of the group with whom he worked for over 14 years, producing musicals such as “La Cage aux Folles” and “Sugar” directed by David Stevel and “Y se armó la mojiganga” by Jorge Alí Triana, for which he composed both the music and lyrics. Cesar acted in countless plays including “King Lear”, “Farsa y licencia de la reina castiza”, “La balada del café triste”, “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, “The Bourgeois Gentleman” and “Macbeth” directed by Ricardo Camacho, and “El ultimo macho” by Luís González, “Taxi”, “Taxi II” directed by Mario Morgan, “The Wizard of Oz”, “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Oliver Twist” directed by Rob Barron and “La cena de los idiotas” directed by Mario Morgan.
 
1987 marked his television debut as the priest on the series “El confesor”, which earned him a Simon Bolivar Award for Best Actor that year. “I was studying and working in Houston when Jenniffer Steffens called me for the role of the Confessor. She brainwashed me and I gave me my start in television.” Since then he has co-starred in soaps including “Calamar”, “Música maestro”, “Milagros de amor”, wrote the soundtrack for the series “El carretero” and appeared in the comedy series “Romeo y Buseta” and productions such as “La mujer doble”, “Dios se lo pague”, “Alejo Durán” and “Pobre Pablo”, “Yo soy Betty, la fea”, “Yo José Gabriel”, “Milagros de amor”, “Todos quieren con Marilyn”, “Juegos prohibidos”, “Hasta que la plata nos separe” and “El penúltimo beso” for RCN Televisión. He also appeared in RTI Television’s “La traición” and “El Zorro: “La espada y la rosa”; Caracol’s “La bella Ceci”; “Sin senos no hay paraíso” and the updated “Victorinos” for Telemundo; as well as the Fox-Telecombia series “Tiempo final” and “Kdabra”.
 
In addition to his work in short films, Cesar has co-starred in features such as Julio Luzardo’s El gallo cantó tres veces; Golpe de estadio (1998) by director Sergio Cabrera, which earned him an Honorable Mention at the Havana New Latin American Film Festival; Dios los junta y ellos se separan (2006) by Harold Trompetero; Perder es cuestión de método (2004) by Sergio Cabrera; El cielo (2009) by Alessandro Basile and In fraganti (2009) by Juan Camilo Pinzón and co-starred in and wrote the theme music for Luis Ospina’s Soplo de vida (1999).