Raf Vallone
Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian movie star known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a former soccer player who often was compared to Burt Lancaster, was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Calabria, Italy, the son of a prominent lawyer and his aristocratic wife. At the University of Turin, Vallone took degrees in law and philosophy and then entered his father's law firm. Vallone played semi-professional soccer but never realized his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Subsequently, he became a sports reporter for L'Unita, a communist newspaper, and also a drama critic for La Stampa. During World War II, Vallone served with the anti-Fascist resistance. His first job as a movie actor was a bit part in Noi vivi (1942) (aka, "We the Living"), but Vallone was not serious about acting as a career. Hired as a researcher on a film about labor unrest, director Giuseppe De Santis cast Vallone as a soldier competing with Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in what became the neo-realist classic Riso amaro (1949) ("Bitter Rice"). The film propelled Vallone, pronounced a natural actor by De Santis, into international stardom and ended his journalism career. Vallone became a major star in Italy in the 1950s and then a player in the global film industry, making movies in Italian, French and English. Vallone achieved popularity with American audiences in the 1960s, starting with his supporting roles in La ciociara (1960) ("Two Women") and El Cid (1961), both co-starring Sophia Loren. Other major actresses he co-starred with on film and stage included Gina Lollobrigida, Anna Magnani, Melina Mercouri, Simone Signoret, and Elena Varzi, to whom he was married for 52 years, until his death in 2002. Vallone's first "American" role was as the incest-minded Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone in Sidney Lumet's film of Arthur Miller's Vu du pont (1962) ("A View from the Bridge"). Other prominent roles in American films included Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963), Roger Corman's The Secret Invasion (1964), Harlow (1965) starring Carroll Baker, and Henry Hathaway's Nevada Smith (1966). Vallone played many priests during his long career, culminating with the cardinal-confessor of mobster Michael Corleone, a priest who becomes pope and is murdered by the Mafia, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990). Appearing for the other side, Vallone was memorable as the Mafia boss Altabani in the original The Italian Job (1969).
Rafa Albert
Rafa Albert is known for Sara no és necessària (1998), La estancia (2004) and Evolució (2008).
Rafa Beato
Rafael Beato Is a Dominican actor, born on August 20th, 1992 in the city of Santo Domingo. He is the son of Grace Jimenez, a Phycologist, and Rafael Beato De La Rosa, a Business Owner. Formal Baseball player receiving awards for outstanding performance as first base and for being the hitter with the highest batting average, he also trained in Karate completing gold belt.
Rafa Castejón
Rafa Castejón was born on 13 June 1969 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He is an actor, known for El aura (2005), Silencio en la nieve (2011) and Hospital Central (2000).
Rafa Delgado
Rafa Delgado is an actor, known for El ministerio del tiempo (2015), Les dues vides d'Andrés Rabadán (2008) and Lazos rotos (2008).
Rafa Esplana
Rafa Esplana is an actress, known for Don't Give Up on Us (2006), Ex with Benefits (2015) and Finding Agnes (2020).
Rafa Garcia
Rafa Garcia was born on February 14, 1972 in Havana, Cuba. He is an actor and writer.
Rafa Marinho
Rafa is a stage and screen actor. He is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University with an MFA in Acting. He has studied at the Moscow Art Theater School, the Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston, as well as taken various opportunities to study acting at the Living Theater NY, Shakespeare & Company, and Lessac Institute, to name just a few of them. He has trained initially in France at the 'Atelier International de Théatre' (where Vincent Cassel also trained) and the Bilingual Acting Workshop. Among some of his stage roles in Moscow, Paris and Boston, he has performed in The Seagull, Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, 12 Angry Jurors, Hair, Anna in the Tropics, Wit, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, among many others. He speaks French, English and Portuguese fluently, is a fencer (the foil being his weapon of choice) and a Latin American Dancer. Rafael also holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Bristol in England.
Rafa Martínez
Rafa Martínez was born on January 24, 1979 in Madrid, Spain. He is known for El bar (2017), Verónica (2017) and Durante la tormenta (2018).
Rafa Montesinos
Rafa Montesinos is known for Civilizados (2005), Dioses y perros (2014) and La princesa del polígono (2007).