Rafael Rojas (actor)


Rafael Humberto Rojas Morales is a Costa Rican former male fashion model and actor. He is known for his work in telenovelas, theater, and Mexican cinema.

Career

Rojas acted in his first play at age 7. He was educated in acting at the Conservatorio de Castella in Costa Rica. In 1984, at the age of 22, he moved to Mexico and obtained small role in a college film and in the telenovela La pobre señorita Limantour. A year later he participated in the film La Segua. His big break came three years later when he played the love interest to the singer Thalía in Quinceañera. He hosted the OTI Festival 1998 along Maribel Guardia.
Rojas has worked in over 30 telenovelas and films, including Teresa with Salma Hayek and Amor real, which won the TVyNovelas Award for "Best Telenovela of the Year" in 2003. He almost did not get the part of Amadeo Corona in Amor real because he was touring the country with one of his plays. After showing interest in the telenovela, the role was re-written so that he could still play the part. Rojas continued to perform onstage, in works like Mi mujer se llama Mauricio and Final de viernes. He has worked with television companies like Televisa and TV Azteca.
In 2004, he participated in the biographic film of telenovela producer Juan Osorio. A year later, he also recorded an album of pre-Hispanic music and started filming a new telenovela titled Flor de campo. After the early 2000s, Rojas retreated from the public eye and despite returning to acting in 2017, maintains a low social media profile. In 2017, he returned to act in the 2017 telenovela El final del Camino and movie Despertar, along with actress Alejandra Toussaint, which was a co-production between Costa Rica and Mexico.
Rojas was the director of Vivo Por Elena, his only directing experience.

Personal life

Rafael Rojas is the son of José Francisco Rojas and María Enilda Morales.
Rojas has been married three times. The first time was when he was 19 years old in Costa Rica, to ballerina Irene Dobles, and resulted in the birth of his daughter Isla Rojas, who lives in Costa Rica with her daughter, Rojas's granddaughter, Celeste. In Mexico, he married Milena Santana when he was 29, and with whom he had two daughters: Neshkala and Mar. Santana and Rojas divorced in 2007.
Rojas has returned to Costa Rica, where, as of 2023, he owns two farms. In 2017, he shared that he had gotten remarried.

Films

Despertar as IgnacioSala de espera Los zapatos de Muddy Mae Amores circulares Mi verdad as "El Flaco"¿Y si te mueres? Chevrolet as a copMujeres infieles as the architect MuñozLa sombra del delator Blood and Sand as Maletilla
  • ''La segua''

Telenovelas

El Final del Camino Vidas Robadas as Pedro Antonio Fernández VidalEternamente tuya as HernánPasión as Coronel José María de ValenciaArmadas y peligrosas Duelo de Pasiones as MaximoMariana de la noche as Ing. Gerardo MontielAmor real as Amadeo CoronaRayito de luz as Antonio SánchezCarita de ángel as GasparSiempre te amaré as Patricio MistralSerafín as EnriqueMaría Isabel as RigobertoEl alma no tiene color as Luis Diego MoralesLa sombra del otro as ManuelSi Dios Me Quita La Vida as FrancescoClarisa as Dario Bracho SanabriaValentina as JulioBaila conmigo as BrunoYo no creo en los hombres as ArturoMi pequeña Soledad as LaloTeresa as MarioMorir para vivir Amor en silencio as SebastiánQuinceañera as GerardoLa pobre Señorita Limantour El engaño as ReynaldoMartín Garatuza as César

Theater

Final de viernes Aquel tiempo de campeones
  • ''Mi mujer se llama Mauricio''