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Humberto Zurita (born September 2 1954) is a Mexican actor, director and producer.

Zurita was born in Torreón, Coahuila, and is one of ten children in his family.

He is best known as actor, director and producer of telenovelas. He is married to Argentine-born actress Christian Bach and the family have two children, Sebastian and Emiliano.

Together with his wife and his brother Gerardo Zurita, also a telenovela producer, he founded a production company called ZUBA (for Zurita-Bach) in 1981.

Acting career

In adolescence he made his first stage appearances in amateur performances of plays Tommy (opera rock) and Jesus Christ Superstar .

He was graduated of CUT (Centro Universitario de Teatro - the Universitary Theatrical Centre) of UNAM ( Universidad Nacional Autonoma - National Autonomous University of Mexico), the famous educational institute for acting in Mexico.

As a stage actor he act in a varios plays from classical to modern, also absurd theater. Humberto Zurita played classical roles like Hamlet but he also appeared in various contemporary plays like [.

In the last years, as theatrical producer and director he stage The Protagonist (El Protagonista) by the Argentinean play writer Luis Agustoni (also act in a title role Fernando) and Haute surveillance (Severa Vigilancia) by the famous French writer Jean Genet. In television he started his acting career with Televisa in the late 1970s. He obtained his first starring role as the adult Alberto Limonta in the 1981 production of El derecho de nacer. Two years later he took the role of Eddie in the Mexican production of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
with Manuel Ojeda as Jimmy. He combined a film career with his television productions such as the telenovela Cañaveral de pasiones which was the most successful of 1996 and launched Juan Soler and Patricia Navidad to stardom.

In 1997 citing creativity reasons he and his wife, Christian Bach, moved to TV Azteca. In a bold move he produced and starred in El candidato an interactive telenovela about current Mexican political issues a year prior to the 2000 Mexican presidential elections. He also produced the costly Azul Tequila (the only telenovela exported in U.K.)(starred by Bárbara Mori) and La chacala (starred by his wife). In the Cinema of Mexico he has produced four films including Bésame en la boca starred by singer Paulina Rubio.

Since 2003 he work for Argos Television a Telemundo Network associated company.

Films

As an actor

Morena (1994) as Carlos Narval
Un instante para morir (1993) as Garcia Rojas
Imperio de los malditos (1993) as Guero
Pelo suelto (1993)
Persecución infernal (1992)
Amor que mata (1992)
Asalto (1991) as Andrés
Muerte ciega (1991)
Diana, René, y El Tíbiri (1988)
Luna caliente (1986)
De mujer a mujer (1986)
El tres de copasl (1986)
Luna caliente (1985)
Bajo la metralla (1983)
Luna de sangre (1982)
El día que murió Pedro Infante (1982)

As a producer

El amor de tu vida S.A. (1996)
Bésame en la boca (1995)
Perfume, efecto inmediato (1994)
Educación sexual en breves lecciones (1994)

Telenovelas

As an actor

Argos

Los Plateados (2005) as Emilio Gallardo Rivas
Ladrón de Corazones (2003) as Antonio Vega

TV Azteca

Agua y aceite (2002) as Ernesto
El candidato (1999) as Ignacio Santoscoy

Televisa

Alguna vez tendremos alas (1997) as Guillermo Lamas
La antorcha encendida (1996) as Mariano Foncerrada
El vuelo del águila (1994) as Gral. Porfirio Díaz
Capricho (1993) as Daniel
Al filo de la muerte (1991) as Francisco
Encadenados (1988) as Germán
De pura sangre (1986) as Alberto
El maleficio (1983) as Jorge de Martino
El derecho de nacer (1981) as Alberto
Soledad (1980) as Fernando
Querer volar (1980) as Daniel
Muchacha de barrio (1979) as Raul
Una mujer (1978) as Javier

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