Carlos Barbosa
Carlos Alfonso Barbosa Romero (Cali, January 15, 1944 – Bogotá, October 9, 2025) was a Colombian actor and director of television, film, and theater.
Barbosa earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Valle in Cali, where he was part of the university’s theater group, which later became the Department of Performing Arts. He later joined the National Theater Company of Colombia, which went on a tour that ended in Costa Rica. Afterward, he moved to San Andrés and Providencia before returning to Bogotá, where he joined the cast of the Teatro Popular de Bogotá (TPB). His television debut took place in 1969 in the telenovela Candó. Among his most memorable television roles are Eurípides, a gay hairdresser, in the 1986 telenovela El Divino; the doorman of the apartment building where the Casas family lived in the children’s show Imagínate (1988); and Ernesto in the comedy series Vuelo secreto (1992–1998). Carlos Barbosa also appeared in La saga: negocio de familia (2004) and Bermúdez (2009), in which he played Gerardo Bermúdez. In 2010, he portrayed Abdul in El clon, a Telemundo production. He passed away on October 9, 2025, at his home in Bogotá, after battling multiple myeloma for two months, a condition that progressively worsened.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0811 |
| Birthday | 1944-04-15 |
| Place of Birth | Cali, Colombia |
| Also Known As | Carlos Alfonso Barbosa Romero, |
1978
El candidato
10/1
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El candidato
1979
The Grandmother
2/1
Portrait of a traditional, rich and decadent family from Bogotá, dominated by evil Brigida "the grandmother" who mistreat her sons and daughters to p...
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The Grandmother
1982
Ayer me echaron del Pueblo
8/1
A family of peasants must live in the chaotic big city.
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Ayer me echaron del Pueblo
1986
Pisingaña
3/3
A young peasant woman moves to Bogotá in search of work and ends up as a domestic servant for a middle-class family, where she witnesses the breakdown...
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Pisingaña
2002
Bolivar Is Me
6.364/11
A soap opera actor wants to finish Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia": a super-state of 5 Latin-American countries to stop institutional chaos, lac...
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Bolivar Is Me
2019
Holy Expectations
6.5/3
With a short life expectancy, a young woman uses faith and her vivid imagination to navigate adversity and create a story that impacts around her.
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Holy Expectations
2018
Y nos fuimos pal' mundial
4/1
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