Claudio Cataño

{{Short description|Colombian actor and director (born 1985)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{family name hatnote|Cataño|Porras|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Claudio Cataño

| image = Claudio Cataño 2022.jpg

| caption = Cataño in 2022

| birth_name = Claudio Cataño Porras

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|9|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bogotá, Colombia

| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|director}}

| years_active = 2005–present

}}

Claudio Cataño Porras (born 18 September 1985){{cite web |last=Bustamante |first=Pedro |title=Quién es Claudio Cataño, el actor que hace del coronel Aureliano Buendía en "Cien años de soledad" |url=https://elcomercio.pe/mag/fama/que-ver/quien-es-claudio-catano-el-actor-que-hace-del-coronel-aureliano-buendia-en-cien-anos-de-soledad-biografia-carrera-y-fotos-serie-de-netflix-nnda-nnlt-noticia/ |website=El Comercio |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=9 December 2024}} is a Colombian actor and director. In 2024, he played Colonel Aureliano Buendía in the Netflix television series One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Early life

Cataño was born in Bogotá to a family of artists.{{cite web |last=Araguás |first=Natalia |title=Claudio Cataño, un 'mono' Aureliano Buendía |url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/gente/20241222/claudio-catano-mono-aureliano-buendia-112724880 |website=El Periódico |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=22 December 2024 |archive-date=23 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241223041259/https://www.elperiodico.com/es/gente/20241222/claudio-catano-mono-aureliano-buendia-112724880 |url-status=live }} His father, Mauricio Cataño, is a filmmaker. His grandfather, {{ill|Mario Rivero|es}}, was a poet, and his uncle, Fausto Panesso, is a writer.{{cite web |last=Acero |first=Yaritza |title=Claudio Cataño: la historia del actor colombiano |url=https://marieclairecolombia.com/claudio-catano-actor-quien-es-biografia/ |website=Marie Claire Colombia |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=17 December 2024 |archive-date=23 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123203500/https://marieclairecolombia.com/claudio-catano-actor-quien-es-biografia/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Pedraza |first=Claudia |title=Golpe a golpe, beso a beso |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-4279074 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=29 November 2010}} Cataño was raised by his grandparents in La Candelaria.{{cite web |last=Vicencio |first=Miguel |title=Cien años de soledad (Serie de Netflix): Reparto completo |url=https://www.vogue.mx/articulo/reparto-de-cien-anos-de-soledad-netflix |website=Vogue México y Latinoamérica |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=17 April 2024 |archive-date=27 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227145835/https://www.vogue.mx/articulo/reparto-de-cien-anos-de-soledad-netflix |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Díaz Granados |first=Federico |title=Claudio Cataño y el viaje hacia Aureliano Buendía |url=https://cambiocolombia.com/cultura/claudio-catano-y-el-viaje-hacia-aureliano-buendia |website=Cambio |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=22 December 2024 |archive-date=14 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114202550/https://cambiocolombia.com/cultura/claudio-catano-y-el-viaje-hacia-aureliano-buendia |url-status=live }} After being expelled from several schools for behavioral issues, he began studying theater at the Escuela Rubén Di Petro.{{cite web |last=Corrales |first=Johana |title=Claudio Cataño, un galán de ideas profundas |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.co/suplementos/dominical/2014/03/16/claudio-catano-un-galan-de-ideas-profundas/ |website=El Universal |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=16 March 2014}}

Career

He made his television debut on Casados con hijos in 2005.{{cite web |last=López |first=Alicia |title=Él es Claudio Cataño, protagonista de "Cien años de soledad" que consideró decirle "no" a la serie |url=https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/espectaculos/2024/12/12/el-es-claudio-catano-protagonista-de-cien-anos-de-soledad-que-considero-decirle-no-la-serie-661127.html |website=El Heraldo de México |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=12 December 2024}} In 2016, he made his feature directorial debut with the film Moria, which he also wrote and executive produced.{{cite web |last=Castiblanco Ricaurte |first=Juan Pablo |title=El cine experimental colombiano tiene buenas noticias |url=https://www.shock.co/cine-y-tv/el-cine-experimental-colombiano-tiene-buenas-noticias |website=Shock |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=5 April 2016 |archive-date=20 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920200802/https://www.shock.co/cine-y-tv/el-cine-experimental-colombiano-tiene-buenas-noticias |url-status=live }} In 2024, he played Colonel Aureliano Buendía in the Netflix television series One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 novel of the same name.{{cite web |last=Rice |first=Lynette |title='100 Years Of Solitude': Netflix Sets Premiere Date For Series Adaptation Of Gabriel García Marquez Novel |url=https://deadline.com/2024/10/100-years-of-solitude-netflix-premiere-date-gabriel-garcia-marquez-novel-1236110356/ |website=Deadline |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=8 October 2024 |archive-date=26 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226192440/https://deadline.com/2024/10/100-years-of-solitude-netflix-premiere-date-gabriel-garcia-marquez-novel-1236110356/ |url-status=live }}

Personal life

Cataño was in a relationship with Cindy Herazo, with whom he has a son.{{cite web |last=Galeano Campo |first=Carolina |title=Esas segundas partes en el amor |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-13059586 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=11 September 2013}} He later entered into a relationship with Valentina Acosta,{{cite web |last=Mayorga |first=Ronald |title=Terminó el romance de novela entre Claudio y Valentina |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-8500848 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=1 December 2010}} and was in a relashionship to actress Patricia Castañeda, with whom he has a daughter, Anastasia. As of May 2023, he is in a relationship with actress {{ill|María del Rosario|es|María del Rosario (actriz)|lt=María del Rosario}}.{{cite web |last=Barros |first=Danny |title=Ella es la nueva novia del protagonista de 'Cien años de soledad', exesposo de Patricia Castañeda: tienen un acuerdo |url=https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2024/12/15/ella-es-la-nueva-novia-del-protagonista-de-cien-anos-de-soledad-exesposo-de-patricia-castaneda-tienen-un-acuerdo/ |website=Infobae |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=15 December 2024 |archive-date=15 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241215182227/https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2024/12/15/ella-es-la-nueva-novia-del-protagonista-de-cien-anos-de-soledad-exesposo-de-patricia-castaneda-tienen-un-acuerdo/ |url-status=live }}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

! class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}

2016

| Moria

| {{n/a}}

| Director, writer, and executive producer

| {{cite web |last=Díaz Martínez |first=Laura |title=Entre la locura y la desesperación: una fórmula para convertirse en actor |url=https://bacanika.com/articulo/entre-la-locura-y-la-desesperacion |website=Bacánika |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=28 April 2014}}

rowspan="2" | 2017

| {{ill|Virginia Casta|es}}

| {{n/a}}

| Director, writer, and producer

| {{cite web |last=Arango Duque |first=Jaime Horacio |title=Juliana Betancourt, una actriz de corazón |url=https://www.elcolombiano.com/entretenimiento/la-paisa-juliana-betancourt-conversa-sobre-ser-actriz-XK6826918 |website=El Colombiano |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=30 June 2017}}

Nadie sabe para quién trabaja

| Diego Ángel

|

| {{cite web |last=Arango Duque |first=Jaime Horacio |title=Jessica Cediel vuelve al cine con otra comedia |url=https://www.elcolombiano.com/cultura/cine/jessica-cediel-en-pantalla-con-nadie-sabe-para-quien-trabaja-HX7761393 |website=El Colombiano |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=25 November 2017 |archive-date=27 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127095210/http://www.elcolombiano.com/cultura/cine/jessica-cediel-en-pantalla-con-nadie-sabe-para-quien-trabaja-HX7761393 |url-status=live }}

2023

| Aurora

| Adolfo

|

| {{cite web |last=Gómez |first=Sofía |title='Aurora': los claroscuros de una migrante colombiana en Nueva York llegan al cine |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/cine-y-tv/aurora-detalles-de-la-pelicula-sobre-una-migrante-colombiana-en-nueva-york-797857 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=19 August 2023 |archive-date=4 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240704113942/https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/cine-y-tv/aurora-detalles-de-la-pelicula-sobre-una-migrante-colombiana-en-nueva-york-797857 |url-status=live }}

rowspan="3" | 2024

| Inventario

| Borrás

|

| {{cite web |last=Gómez |first=Sofía |title='Inventario', llega al cine una mirada a una sociedad hipócrita y mentirosa |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/cine-y-tv/inventario-llega-al-cine-una-mirada-a-una-sociedad-hipocrita-y-mentirosa-3336276 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=22 April 2024}}

Horizonte

| Basilio

|

| {{cite web |last=de la Fuente |first=Anna Marie |title=Alief Snags 'Horizonte' by 'Land and Shade' Camera d'Or Winner César Augusto Acevedo, Bows Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/alief-land-and-shade-camera-dor-san-sebastian-festival-1236155417/ |website=Variety |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=25 September 2024 |archive-date=26 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926135907/https://variety.com/2024/film/global/alief-land-and-shade-camera-dor-san-sebastian-festival-1236155417/ |url-status=live }}

Estimados Señores

| Ortiz

|

| {{cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |title='Loving Pablo' Actress Julieth Restrepo To Lead Story Of "Colombian Suffragette" Esmeralda Arboleda |url=https://deadline.com/2022/06/julieth-restrepo-loving-pablo-colombia-esmerelda-arboleda-1235039599/ |website=Deadline |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=7 June 2022 |archive-date=7 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607142941/https://deadline.com/2022/06/julieth-restrepo-loving-pablo-colombia-esmerelda-arboleda-1235039599/ |url-status=live }}

2025

| {{ill|Pacífico (película)|lt=Pacífico|es}}

| Azul

|

| {{cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |title=FilmSharks Locks Deals On Lucia Puenzo Thriller 'Electrophilia' & Spanish Sci-Fi Flick 'Pacifico' — AFM |url=https://deadline.com/2024/11/filmsharks-lucia-puenzo-electrophilia-pacifico-afm-1236167571/ |website=Deadline |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=5 November 2024}}

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

! class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}

2005

| Casados con hijos

|

| Episode: "La venganza es dulce"

|

rowspan="4" | 2008

| {{ill|La sucursal del cielo|es}}

| Pedro Lizcano

| 26 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Arcila Perdomo |first=Paola |title=Comienza postproducción del largometraje Moria |url=https://www.senalcolombia.tv/cine/comienza-postproduccion-del-largometraje-moria |website=Señal Colombia |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=18 February 2014}}

Tiempo final

|

| Episode: "Aficionados"

| {{cite web |title=¿El actor Claudio Cataño está estrenando novia? |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-7543928 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=6 April 2010}}

{{ill|Muñoz vale x 2|es}}

| Calixto

| 3 episodes

| {{cite web |title=Empeora modelo brasileña |url=https://www.vanguardia.com/entretenimiento/farandula/2009/01/25/empeora-modelo-brasilena/ |website=Vanguardia |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=25 January 2009}}

Vecinos

| Nardo

| 129 episodes

|{{cite web |last=Papadopoulos |first=Charles |title=One Hundred Years Of Solitude Cast & Character Guide |url=https://screenrant.com/one-hundred-years-solitude-2024-cast-characters/ |website=Screen Rant |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=12 December 2024}}

2009

| Bermúdez

| Diego Medina

| Supporting role

| rowspan="2" | {{cite web |last=Reyes |first=Laura |title=Quién es Claudio Cataño, el protagonista de la serie 'Cien años de soledad' |url=https://www.caras.com.mx/entretenimiento/quien-es-claudio-catano-el-protagonista-de-la-serie-cien-anos-de-soledad |website=Caras |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=13 December 2024}}

2010

| Rosario Tijeras

| Sudarzky

| 2 episodes

2010–2011

| {{ill|A mano limpia|es}}

| Manuel Guerra

| 178 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Salas Valencia |first=María Camila |title=Así es la vida de Valentina Acosta y los protagonistas de 'A mano limpia' hoy en día |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/gente/a-mano-limpia-asi-es-la-vida-de-los-actores-hoy-en-dia-779742 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=26 June 2023 |archive-date=28 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628143154/https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/gente/a-mano-limpia-asi-es-la-vida-de-los-actores-hoy-en-dia-779742 |url-status=live }}

rowspan="2" | 2013

| 5 viudas sueltas

| Walter

| Supporting role

| {{cite web |last=González |first=María Paula |title=¿Quién es Aureliano Buendía en la serie Cien años de soledad de Netflix? |url=https://www.noticiascaracol.com/entretenimiento/claudio-catano-el-actor-que-protagoniza-cien-anos-de-soledad-de-netflix-rg10 |website=Noticias Caracol |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=17 April 2024}}

{{ill|Comando élite (serie de televisión)|lt=Comando élite|es}}

| David Aguirre

| 7 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Salazar |first=Soreny |title=Dónde y cuándo ver Comando Élite en Colombia |url=https://vidamoderna.com/comando-elite-colombia-horario-canal-rcn/ |website=Vida Moderna |access-date=16 March 2025 |language=es |date=24 September 2024 |archive-date=15 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241015132523/https://vidamoderna.com/comando-elite-colombia-horario-canal-rcn/ |url-status=live }}

2015

| {{ill|Tiro de gracia (serie de televisión)|lt=Tiro de gracia|es}}

| Esnéider Jaramillo

| Supporting role

| {{cite web |last=Álvarez |first=Lina María |title=Tiro de gracia, la serie en que Róbinson Díaz interpreta dos personajes |url=https://www.elpais.com.co/entretenimiento/tiro-de-gracia-la-serie-en-que-robinson-diaz-interpreta-dos-personajes.html |website=El País |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=9 March 2015}}

2016

| La viuda negra

| Robert Jones

| 58 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Roiz |first=Jessica Lucia |title='La Viuda Negra II' Premiere: Ana Serradilla Promises New Cast, Action-Packed Second Season [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] |url=https://www.latintimes.com/la-viuda-negra-ii-premiere-ana-serradilla-promises-new-cast-action-packed-second-371477 |website=Latin Times |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=26 February 2016}}

2016–2017

| 2091

| Lorent

| 12 episodes

| {{cite web |last=de la Fuente |first=Anna Marie |title=$10 million Latino Sci-Fi Pic 'Pacific' Set to Bow Next Year (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/10-million-sci-fi-pic-pacific-set-bow-next-year-1203021036/ |website=Variety |access-date=16 March 2025 |date=6 November 2018}}

2018

| María Magdalena

| Ur

| 2 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Martínez |first=Olga Lucía |title='María Magdalena fue un personaje construido con calma' |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/cine-y-tv/caracol-estrena-la-serie-maria-magdalena-con-maria-fernanda-yepes-366728 |website=El Tiempo |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=26 May 2019 |archive-date=4 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204010419/https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/cine-y-tv/caracol-estrena-la-serie-maria-magdalena-con-maria-fernanda-yepes-366728 |url-status=live }}

2019

| El inquisidor

| El Gato

| 6 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Rojas Barragán |first=Laura Vanessa |title=A mano limpia: Así luce 'Manuel', protagonista de la novela tras 13 años |url=https://www.lafm.com.co/entretenimiento/asi-luce-manuel-de-a-mano-limpia-su-cambio-ha-dejado-enamorada-a-mas-de-una |website=La FM |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=12 May 2023 |archive-date=23 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523200822/https://www.lafm.com.co/entretenimiento/asi-luce-manuel-de-a-mano-limpia-su-cambio-ha-dejado-enamorada-a-mas-de-una |url-status=live }}

2021

| {{ill|Mil colmillos|es}}

| Rojas

| 7 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Arango Duque |first=Jaime Horacio |title=HBO Max estrenará la primera serie colombiana, una historia de terror |url=https://www.elcolombiano.com/entretenimiento/hbo-max-estrena-en-colombia-la-serie-mil-colmillos-con-claudio-catano-NI15843952 |website=El Colombiano |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=7 October 2021 |archive-date=28 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028034803/https://www.elcolombiano.com/entretenimiento/hbo-max-estrena-en-colombia-la-serie-mil-colmillos-con-claudio-catano-NI15843952 |url-status=live }}

2021–2022

| La nieta elegida

| Sergio Roldán

| 32 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Osco |first=Nelly |title="La nieta elegida": horario de esta semana por RCN |url=https://elcomercio.pe/mag/fama/la-nieta-elegida-horario-de-esta-semana-por-rcn-telenovelas-colombia-video-nnda-nnlt-noticia/ |website=El Comercio |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=15 October 2021}}

rowspan="2" | 2022

| Las Villamizar

| Aurelio Velásquez

| Main role

| {{cite web |last=Suárez Zuluaga |first=Daniela |title=Claudio Cataño, en los zapatos de un Capitán |url=https://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/cine-y-tv/claudio-catano-en-los-zapatos-de-un-capitan/ |website=El Espectador |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=8 June 2022}}

{{ill|Cochina envidia|es}}

| Samuel

| 3 episodes

| {{cite web |last=Asmar Soto |first=Salomón |title=Prime Video lanzó su serie colombiana 'Cochina Envidia' |url=https://www.larepublica.co/ocio/prime-video-lanzo-su-serie-colombiana-cochina-envidia-3464740 |website=La República |access-date=15 March 2025 |language=es |date=7 October 2022 |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303094604/https://www.larepublica.co/ocio/prime-video-lanzo-su-serie-colombiana-cochina-envidia-3464740 |url-status=live }}

2024

| One Hundred Years of Solitude

| Colonel Aureliano Buendía

| 7 episodes

| {{cite web |last=de la Fuente |first=Anna Marie |title=How Colombians Crafted Netflix's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' |url=https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-shooting-in-colombia-1236278697/ |website=Variety |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=20 January 2025}}

Awards and nominations

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scope="row" | Platino Awards

| 2025

| Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV series

| One Hundred Years of Solitude

| {{won}}

| {{cite web |last=Vicencio |first=Miguel |date=14 March 2025 |title=Nominados a los Premios Platino 2025: Lista completa |url=https://www.vogue.mx/articulo/premios-platino-2025-nominados |access-date=15 March 2025 |website=Vogue México y Latinoamérica |language=es}}{{cite web |last=De la Fuente |first=Anna Marie |title=Brazil's Oscar-Winning 'I'm Still Here' Sweeps Platino Awards in Madrid |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/global/platino-awards-winners-list-im-still-here-madrid-1236379720/ |website=Variety |access-date=29 April 2025 |date=28 April 2025}}

References

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