Profiles: Patricia Ércole | Proimágenes Colombia

 
Patricia Ércole is a theater, television, and film actress, as well as a dancer with an accomplished career in Latin America and Europe. She is the daughter of actress and ballet dancer Raquel Ércole and musician and comedian Lizardo Díaz, one half of the famous duet “Los Tolimenses.” She returned to film for the co-production Elephant: the Horse, where she played Señora Juana, a magician whose act is one of the most eagerly awaited at the circus, because she always astonishes everyone with her disappearing act.
 
Ércole has a biology degree from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota and has extensive training in acting, classical ballet, and contemporary dance. Her acting training includes actor training at Juan Carlos Corazza Studio (Spain) and a theater workshop with Valery Shuatz and the French Alliance in Paris, where she also studied French for the theater. In Spain, she also took part in theater and performance workshops at Juan Carlos Corazza Studio with directors José Sanchis Sinisterra and Catalina Lladô, in improvisation and voice. In Colombia, she took workshops in voice and presenting for radio and television at the Arco School and acting workshops with Carlos Duplat, Víctor Mallarino, and Chaparro.
 
Her training in classical ballet and contemporary dance includes studies at the Raquel Ercole School, the Priscilla Welton School, the Fort Lauderdale School for Performing Arts (US), the Triknia Kabelioz Contemporary Dance School, the Ana Pavlova School, the Priscilla Welton Foundation Company, the Víctor Ullate School, and the Merche Esmeralda School. She also studied at Studio Harmonic in Paris, with Thierry Verger, Bruno Collinetti, Bea Buffin, and Nathalie Pubellier.
 
She has performed in stage plays such as Knock, Diez (Entrecajas Producciones), Un país llamado Julio, West Side Story, The Blue Room, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Uncle Vanya, an adaptation of “La Ronde,” The Seagull, Yerma, and Locos de Amor.
 
Her film credits include the Colombian-Chilean co-production Elephant: the Horse, by Andrés Waissbluth (2016); the short Foking Venus, by Liliana Diaz Castillo (2013); the TV movie La torre de babel, by Giovanna Ribes (2007); Dago García’s Mi abuelo, mi papá y yo (2005); Bob Decout’s La gente honrada (2004); Ana Sofía Osorio’s Fragmentos de una carta (2003); Yoel Daham’s O’Donnel 21 (2001); and Sergio Restrepo’s La Zona Áurea (1999).
 
She launched her television career in 1989 as host of the “Patricia de Remate” segment of the National News, and went on to host the magazine show Mujer Actual, Crónicas Privadas in Spain, and Patricia en Europa. She continued with a wide-ranging career in TV series, dramas, and telenovelas, including Imagínate and Los hijos de los ausentes from Producciones Punch TV; and El carretero (1990), La Saga: negocio de familia (2004), Sin tetas no hay paraíso (2006), El Enviado, and Oye Bonita (2008) from Caracol Television.
 
With RTI Television, she has acted in Zarabanda, Las aguas mansas (1994), and the Telemundo version of Decisiones. She has also had roles in Espumas with RCN TV (1991); Gitana with Jorge Barón TV (1992); La fuerza del Poder with Coestrellas (1992); Pecado Santo with Tevecine (1995); Sangre de Lobos with Producciones JES (1991); Higuita from Producciones Teleset; Géminis for TVE (Spain); the series Tiempo Final from FoxTelecolombia; and the series Valentino El Argentino for Vista Producciones (2008).
 
Her performances have earned her multiple awards nominations, including for Best Actress in the TV and Telenovelas Awards of 1993 and 1995; the 1995 ACPE Award; the 1993 India Catalina Award; and the 1991 Simon Bolivar Award.

Last updated: February 2017.