The actor will be remembered for a great acting career, including his time in the theater and countless series and soap operas that established him in Colombia.
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Edgardo Román worked on novels such as “Pura Sangre” or “La gloria de Lucho”.
The great Colombian actor, Edgardo Román died this Friday, January 7, at the age of 71. The actor remembered for a great career on television in some soap operas such as “Pura sangre”, “Amar y vivir” or “La gloria de Lucho”, left following a few years of fighting once morest cancer. His condition would have been made known by his son, also an actor, Julián Román.
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At 71 years old and despite being under chemotherapy treatments, his son assured that he was staying strong, that his hair was still intact and that due to the pandemic they had taken extreme care and precautions.
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José Edgardo Román Cruz did it on August 4, 1950. His acting career began in 1971 and within his extensive career he included theater with regarding 20 plays, 22 films and a large number of soap operas. His acting ability put him in a great prominent position within acting.
According to information from the Mixed Fund for Cinematographic Promotion “Proimimages Colombia”, the actor stood out in productions such as “The anniversary”, “Hand request and On the damage that Antón Chejov’s tobacco does”, “Romance de lobos de Valle Inclan ”,“ La Cándida Eréndira and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ”,“ La Fiesta del Chivo by Germán Vargas Llosa ”,“ Once upon a time the history of Don Quixote without stain by Mauricio Goyeneche ”, among other works.
His passion for theater led him to perform not only on Colombian stages, but also on imposing stages such as the Odín Theater in Denmark and the San Martín Theater in Buenos Aires.
The cinema did not escape and in 1979 he participated in “Colombia conection” by Gustavo Nieto Roa. Then others will continue, such as “Father by accident” (1981) by Manuel Busquets Emiliani, “Condors do not bury every day” (1984) by Francisco Norden, “The snail’s strategy” (1993). During the 2000s, “The hero” (2003) by Guillermo Rincón, “The story of the pink trunk” (2005) and “Portraits in a sea of lies” (2010) by Carlos Gaviria, among many others, stood out.
Along with his acting career, he developed as a teacher and director of the Banco Cafetero theater group and was also a professor, founder and director of the Actuemos Artistic and Theater Research Laboratory.
Television brought him national fame. “The grandmother”, The sins of Inés de Hinojosa (1988) were some of the things he started with. With Maten al león (1989) he won the India Catalina award and the Simón Bolívar award for Best Leading Actor. He participated in “Los Reyes”, a successful telenovela in the country, then came “Hasta que la plata nos separe” (2006) “Pura sangre” (2007), three years later “Operación Jaque” arrived and his last work was in “The glory of Lucho” (2019).