In recent months we have published in our magazine about some soap opera actors Vice versa that are not found in the country today. Weeks ago we referred here to Víctor Jimcavik, who left for Colombia, to Ángel Luis Montaner (Costa Rica) and to Enoel Oquendo, whom we also saw for several years as Claro in the comedy Let me tell you and now resides in the United States.
In recent hours we learned that the actor Oscar Ibarra Nápoles, who played Tony in the aforementioned fiction, arrived in that last nation. Through her Instagram stories, actress Elizabeth Castro, who also participated in that own production, said goodbye to her friend with a photo of him, accompanied by the text “My Tony always, my brother, my friend. An incredible future awaits you. Tons of hugs”.
Hours later, on Oscar’s profile on that same social network, actress Niurka Caballero, who lives in the northern country, published a video in which she appears, with a North American flag in her hand, running to welcome him to the airport to the “little brother that life gave me.” “May all paths be open to you and you be happy and prosperous, you deserve it,” she added in her post.
In the dramatized directed by Loisys Inclán, Oscar became Tony, the host of a restaurant. As for his personal life, he had a relationship with Gina (Elizabeth Castro) that was stopped due to the influence of her father-in-law Rigoberto (Oquendo).
According to Cubaactores, Ibarra wanted to get involved in the art world since childhood, especially through dance, but that manifestation would not ultimately be what would lead him to become known within the national panorama.
Later, during adolescence, he joined a theater company for children and young people and this allowed him to debut on stage with the role of Loppi in a performance of The enchanted shrimp.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte between 2007 and 2012 and Cubaactores says that after graduating he continued doing theater in Santiago de Cuba, his homeland, until he returned to Havana.
Once back in the Cuban capital he joined the cast of the films Free Cuba and Looking for Casal. Regarding his experience in this latest feature film, where he played Antonio Maceo, he once said that the casting process happened in a rather strange way, as it occurred through studies, conversations, interviews with historians until he was offered the character.
At that stage, when he was preparing for the film directed by Jorge Luis Sánchez, he confessed that he began to adapt to the mustache, the beard and to maintain “a raw image” that he worked on until he found the one that remained definitively in the sequences. He focused on showing the man’s feelings, rather than the hero’s. There, he said, were “the risks, the challenges and the fears.”
Other of his roles in the seventh art came in productions such as Live and Before the ferry arrives. We saw it on TV before in the police Following the footprint and ONEas well as in the television series LCB: The other war and Together but not mixed.
A few weeks ago he was seen on several Cuban stages with the play Habibia production by the Swiss company Apsara Teatro, where he shared with his colleagues Liliana Lam, Alberto Corona, Anabel Arencibia and Peter Rojas.
From Cubalite we wish Oscar Ibarra the best for his life and his professional projects.
