Bárbara Mori
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The 30-year-old Mexican actress was 14 and working as a waitress when she was spotted by fashion designer Marcos Toledo and entered the world of modeling. She broke into television acting several years later and by 1998 landed her first leading role in the Mexican telenovela “Azul Tequila” and went on to appear in several other Latin American soap operas and films. Mori starred in the 2006 Panamax film La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother’s Wife). She will play the leading female role in Panamax’s upcoming film tentatively named Violinchelo.
Ivonne Montero
 [Photo: Eileen Escarda] |
The Mexican-born actress (cover photo) who appears in Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón has starred in several telenovelas, including “Las Vias del Amor” and “Alma Rebelde.” She had a starring role in Telemundo’s “Amor Descarado,” played the title role in the 2004 soap “Anita No Te Rajes” and has appeared in the Mexican films Asesino en Serio and El Tigre de Santa Julia.
Fernando Colunga
 [Photo: Eileen Escarda] |
Colunga, 41, has starred in eight consecutive No. 1-rated telenovelas in Mexico and the United States over the past decade. His first U.S. film role was playing Alejandro Toledo in Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón, as a one-time thief who masterminds a robbery of a TV infomercial magnate using a crew of immigrants.
Miguel Varoni
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The 43-year-old Colombian film and TV actor is best known for his comedic acting in the 2001 Colombian telenovela “Pedro el Escamoso,” in which he plays Pedro Coral Tavera, a mullet-sporting Don Juan who is cast out of his hometown but finds adventure and love in the big city. In 2007, Varoni made a guest appearance on the hit NBC sitcom “My Name is Earl.” In Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón, he plays Emilio Lopez, half of the con artist duo led by Colunga.
Sonya Smith
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The blue-eyed, blonde Smith is the daughter of Venezuelan actress Ilana Jacquet. The Miami-based actress has starred in telenovelas in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. She made her Hollywood debut in the 2005 indie film Cyxork7, a black comedy about the making of a very bad sci-fi movie and appears in Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón.
Julie Gonzalo
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The Argentina-born, Miami-raised actress has appeared in a number of Hollywood productions including Must Love Dogs, Christmas with the Kranks, Dodgeball and Freaky Friday and has a recurring role on the television series “Veronica Mars.” She made her Spanish-language film debut in Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón.
Giselle Blondet
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The Puerto Rican actress, talk
show host and television personality is the star of Panamax’s Christmas film, A Wonderful Christmas: Feliz Navidad, playing opposite Luis Jiménez as his pregnant wife.
Gabriel Soto
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A former model and one-time Mr. Mexico, the former boy band star has appeared in several telenovelas, including “Mujer de Madera” and “La Verdad Oculta.” Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón was his first full-length feature film.
Luis Jiménez
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Jiménez is the former longtime host of “El Vacilón de la Mañana,” New York’s top-rated Spanish-language morning radio show on La Mega 97.9. The radio talk jock received international notoriety in 2003 when he and a sidekick crank-called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and tricked him into thinking he was speaking with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Jiménez stars in A Wonderful Christmas as a down-on-his-luck building superintendent in the Bronx.
Upcoming Panamax Films
Rockaway
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Release date: March on DVD
Written and directed by: Jeff and Josh Crook
Cast: Nicholas Gonzalez, Manny Perez,
Richard Chavira and Mario
Cimarro
Plot: An action flick that tells the story of Trane, a war hero who returns from Afghanistan to his home in Queens, N.Y., to avenge the murders of his wife and child. The soundtrack features the music of Akwid, a Los Angeles-based Mexican-American hip-hop band.
Violinchelo (working title)
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Release date: This year
Screenwriter: Blas Valdez
Director: Sandra Cabriada
Cast: Bárbara Mori, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Joaquin Cosío, Irene Azuela,
Marina de Tavira, Marimar Vega,
Fermin Martinez, Hector Holten
Plot: Consuelo believes she has found her Prince Charming — though he seems to exist only in her dreams. Ricardo, meanwhile, suffers nightmares of a young woman trying to kill him.