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- Jorge Rivera López was born on March 19, 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Strange Invasion (1965), Of Love and Shadows (1994) and La Mary (1974). He was married to María Elina Ruas. He died on September 5, 2024 in Argentina.
- SpouseMaría Elina Ruas(? - July 9, 2016) (her death, 1 child)
- During the 1980s military dictatorship, López, along with Luis Brandoni, Roberto Cossa, Osvaldo Dragún, and Pepe Soriano, accompanied by Nobel Peace Prize winner (1980) Adolfo Esquivel and writer Ernesto Sábato, formed a group called Teatro Abierto (Open Theater) in an attempt to reinvent independent theater separated from government propaganda and approval.
- From 1981 he was one of the protagonists of the Open Theatre Movement , a cultural reaction against the military dictatorship that had a wide influence on the population.
- In 1959, he participated in the program Historia de Jóvenes broadcast by Channel 7, which received the Martín Fierro Award of that year in the soap opera category. 3.
- In 1980 he won the Molière and Estrella de Mar Awards.
- During the civil-military dictatorship he remained at the head of the Argentine Actors Association, the only national union that was not intervened by the military. During those years he was able to act in independent theater with his company.
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