Becker, Kuno

Childhood

Becker was born in Mexico in the family of Eduardo Manuel Becker Cellar and Maria del Rocio Baby Paz Felix. His paternal grandfather is an emigrant from Germany , his maternal grandfather is a Spaniard , both of his grandmothers are Mexicans ^[3] . Kuno has a brother Gunther and a sister Karina. From the age of six, he studied music, intending to become a professional violinist in the future. After graduation, he moved to Europe to continue his musical education at the prestigious Mozart University of Salzburg, Austria . There he studied for several years with world-famous teachers.

Career

At the age of seventeen, Kuno decided to become an actor. He passed the selection of 3200 applicants for a place in the acting training center of the largest Mexican media company Televisa .

After two years of classes, Becker got his first role in the telenovela " For Life " and starred in 120 episodes of this series. After this, the young actor was eagerly invited to Mexican television - he played minor characters in the short stories “ Hell in a Small Town ” (with Veronica Castro ), “ Colorless Soul ”, “ Misunderstanding ”, “ In the Heat of Anger ”, “ Camilla ” and “ Dreamers ” ". In April 2000, Kuno starred for the first time in the lead role in the TV series Deceived Women , and after a while he was invited to another leading role in the series First Love .

In addition to working on television, Becker took part in the stage productions of Televisa . In 1998, he played in the musical comedy En Roma el Amor es Broma , while simultaneously starring in the telenovela "Dreamers" and speaking with the tour shows of the play of one actor "Bans." For several years he managed to achieve fame and popularity, becoming one of the most sought-after young actors in Mexico.

Kuno’s film career began with a small role in the movie “ First Night ” ( 1996 ), then he voiced Cale, the main character in the animated film Titanium: After the Death of the Earth (for the Spanish version; Matt Damon spoke for Cale in the original). Then there were roles in the films “ Lucia, Lucia ” ( 2003 ; together with the Argentine actress Cecilia Roth ), “ Dreaming of Argentina ” ( 2003 ; nomination for the “Golden Lion” of the Venice Film Festival ), “Once at a Wedding”, “English as a Second Language” "(Both 2005 ) and the role of Mansur in the Kazakh-Russian-American film epic" Nomad "( 2004 ).

In 2005, the U.S.-British sports drama Goal! ”, Where Becker played the role of Santiago Munez, a young Mexican whose family illegally entered the United States . Having matured, the hero of Becker goes to England , where he becomes a football star. The film was successful, and it was decided to shoot two previously planned sequels. “ Goal! 2 ”was released in February 2007,“ Goal! 3 ”- in 2009. Kuno himself demonstrated in the film a fairly good game and the ability to handle a soccer ball - for this role he was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards in the Breakthrough of the Year nomination. In 2007, the American black comedy Sex for Breakfast was released, where Becker co-starred with Macaulay Kalkin , Eliza Dushku and Alexis Zena . In 2008, he played the role of the young boxer Hector in the drama " From Mexico with Love ."

• KunoBeckerOnline.com (English) - fan site
• Kuno Becker on the Internet Movie Database