Salvador del Solar

Salvador del Solar was born on 1 May 1970, in Lima. He is the son of Salvador del Solar Figuerola and Elvira Labarthe Flores. His great-great-grandfather, Pedro Alejandrino del Solar was President of the Council of Ministers and Vice President of Peru.

He attended the Santa María Marianistas School of Lima. After the completion of his high school studies, he was admitted to the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he graduated as a lawyer with honors. During his undergraduate studies in law, he founded and directed the law magazine Lus et Veritas, and served as head of internships at several chairs. Subsequently, he completed a master's degree in International Relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University with a specialization in Communication and Intercultural Negotiation (2002).

He was selected national of the water polo team. Upon graduating from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru as a lawyer, he worked at many law firms in Lima. After a year in his last law firm, he quit to pursue a career in acting. Subsequently, he enrolled in Alberto Isola's professional actors workshop, later starting a career in the theater, which has included works such as Presas de Salón, Ojos Bonitos, Ugly Paintings, Hamlet, El Gran Teatro del Mundo and King Lear, after which he traveled to Colombia to continue his career.

In 1999, with Angie Cepeda, he starred in the film Captain Pantoja and the Special Services, directed by Francisco J. Lombardi, based on the homonymous novel by Mario Vargas Llosa; the film was a success between the public and the critics. The same year, he starred in the telenovela Pobre Diabla, again together with Angie Cepeda. The telenovela was a true success of the Peruvian productions, which led to its export to American and European countries.

In 2009, he returned to Peru to participate in the series The Dwarf. Salvador returned to Peru in 2012 to be a jury member of the 16th Lima Film Festival. He also recorded for the series El Capo 2, playing the lawyer Rubén Castro. In 2013, Del Solar participated in the movie The Missing Elephant by Javier Fuentes León, where he shared credits with Colombian actors Angie Cepeda and Andrés Parra. The film was released the following year. In 2014, Del Solar debuted as a film director with the film Magallanes.