Mike Amigorena

Mike Amigorena born May 30 1972 is an actor and Argentine television personality He was born Ricardo Luis Amigorena in Maipú Mendoza Province to a Basque Argentine father and an Italian Argentine mother in 1972 Amigorena was especially restless as an adolescent and was expelled from a number of secondary schools He left Maipú for Buenos Aires in search of fame in 1992 and initially struggled in a variety of menial jobs living handtomouth in a tenement for a number of years He was eventually discovered by a modeling agency and in 1992 was given a small role in leading local comic Guillermo Francellas sitcom La familia Benvenuto He later appeared in the popular teen drama Montaña rusa Rollercoaster and in the mid1990s enrolled in a theatre school mentored first by Santiago Doria and later Alfredo Zemma of the Argentine Actors Association He first appeared in Buenos Aires vibrant theatre scene in 1995 and became a prolific stage actor notably in a 1998 local production of German playwright Frank Wedekinds Spring Awakening and in a compressed Shakespeare production from 2004 to 2006 which earned him Argentine ACE and Clarín Awards From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia