Gustavo Ruben Valenzuela

GUSTAVO RUBEN VALENZUELA, Argentinian Dutch 2nd March 1965 Amsterdam

Biography

Gustavo Ruben Valenzuela was born on March 2nd of 1965 in La Plata, Argentina Republic, as the first son in a middle class family of a school teacher and a hospital operators' heating system.

As most of the Argentineans, he carries with pride his father's names: 'Ruben Valenzuela' and it's a conscious choice to use all of his three real names as his trade mark signature; as in his artistic work, as he also does in his every day private life.

Gustavo grew with that feeling that there was a huge world to be discovered and explored and that his country was so far away from the rest of the planet! More and more he focused his attention on Europe, where he felt the diversity of cultures living closely to each other, different languages and ways of living were exactly where he wanted to be.

At an early stage, his life becomes a fight for his idealisms, dreams and surviving the facts of reality. He combined Finance, working in different kind of jobs with Theater and Improvisation and Social Communication and Journalism at the University of La Plata.

He managed though, to attend the Theater Institute 'Escuela de Teatro La Plata' from 1982 till 1985 learning acting and improvisation techniques on stage in evening courses.

As his own signs, being a 'Pisces' and a 'Snake' according to the Chinese, his life is being dedicated to art, oil painting, modelling, shinning on a stage as an actor and on the other much rational side, doing Finances on different job opportunities.

He believes that any kind of art starts with the heart. Passion is the essential ingredient! Acting is a transformation, it takes imagination to think alike, how it would be to be in someone's skin, it's a process when you start acting like and feeling comfortable being, then you start becoming. If I believe it, then you start believing!