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- Mario Ernesto Sánchez was born on January 10, 1947 in San Antonio de las Vegas, Cuba. He was an actor, known for Step Up: Revolution (2012), The Specialist (1994) and Bad Boys (1995). He died on April 10, 2025 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- In 1995, he received the Federico García Lorca award in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain, for having contributed greatly to the development of Hispanic theater in America; and in 2004 the Kusillo del Fitaz award, in La Paz, Bolivia, for the same reason.
- In 1994, he received the Ollantay award for the promoter of Ibero-American Theater, awarded by the Latin American Center for Theatrical Creation and Research (Celcit), in Madrid.
- In 2007 he received a Special Recognition Award from the Arts & Business Council of Miami for his artistic achievements with the International Hispanic Theater Festival of Miami, which he founded and directed from its beginnings in 1986.
- The founder and director of the International Hispanic Theater Festival and Teatro Avante.
- Went to the United States as a teenager, at 15, during the Operation Pedro Pan.
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