Alejandro Goic (actor)

{{short description|Chilean actor}}

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| name = Alejandro Goic

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| birth_place = Santiago, Chile

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| occupation = Actor

| years active = 1988-present

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Alejandro Eduardo Goic Jerez (born 11 September 1957) is a Chilean actor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.latercera.com/noticia/alejandro-goic-actor-y-director-de-teatro-tengo-el-deber-moral-de-hacerle-un-juicio-a-pinochet/|title = Alejandro Goic, actor y director de teatro: "Tengo el deber moral de hacerle un juicio a Pinochet"|date = 12 March 2016}} He appeared in more than fifty films since 1988.

Biography

Alejandro Goic is the son of physician Alejandro Goic Goic and Carmen Jerez Horta, and the nephew of former Christian Democratic senator Alberto Jerez Horta.

During his youth, Goic was active in the Socialist Youth and then the Socialist Party. After the 1973 military coup, he was interrogated and tortured by the DINA.{{cite web |title=La desconocida historia como preso político en la dictadura del actor Alejandro Goic |url=https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/espectaculos-y-tv/notas-espectaculos-tv/2018/08/02/la-desconocida-historia-como-preso-politico-en-la-dictadura-del-actor-alejandro-goic.shtml |work=BioBio Chile |date=August 2, 2018 |accessdate=2018-08-03}} In the 1980s he went into exile in Sweden, where his daughter was born.{{cite web |title=VIDEO - Alejandro Goic y su íntima historia con el exilio: "Le pregunté a mi hija si quería volver y fue lapidaria: 'no papá'" |url=http://www.eldesconcierto.cl/2016/10/28/video-alejandro-goic-y-su-intima-historia-con-el-exilio-le-pregunte-a-mi-hija-si-queria-volver-y-fue-lapidaria-no-papa/ |work=El Desconcierto |date=October 28, 2016 |accessdate=2018-08-03}}

Selected filmography

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Year

! Title

! Role

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2005

|The Last Moon

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2009

|The Maid

| Edmundo

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rowspan=2|2010

|Drama

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Old Cats

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2012

|Young and Wild

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rowspan=2|2013

|No

| Ricardo

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Gloria

|

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2015

|The Club

| Padre Ortega

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rowspan=3|2016

|The 33

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Neruda

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Jesús

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2021

|A Place Called Dignity

|Colonel

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2022

|Blanquita

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2023

| Mutt

| Pablo

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2024

|The Wild Years

|Tommy Wolf

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References

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