Alfonso Herrera

Alfonso "Poncho" Herrera (born Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez on August 28, 1983) is a Mexican actor and ex-member of the music group RBD.

Biography

Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez was born in Mexico City.http://www.esmas.com/espectaculos/artistas/418154.html Esmas Official Biography He has an older brother, Alejandro, and a younger brother, Oscar. He attended the Edron Academy, a prestigious high class British school, alongside Gael García Bernal and Ximena Sariñana and graduated in 2002. Herrera originally wanted to become a pilot and was going to move to San Antonio, Texas to enroll in an aviation school. He changed his mind and decided to enroll at the Centro de Educación Artística run by Latin American media giant Televisa.

Acting career

Following his completion at the Centro de Educación Artística, Herrera began working professionally in theater. He performed in Las Brujas de Salem (2001), Como matar a un ruiseñor (2001) and Antigona (2001).

In 2002, he was cast in the film Amar te duele, directed by Fernando Sariñana, and from there moved into television, working in the telenovela Clase 406, alongside Dulce Maria, Anahí, and Christian Chávez, who later became his bandmates in RBD.

In 2004, he was cast as one of the main characters in Rebelde, a Mexican remake of the hit Argentine novela, Rebelde Way. Herrera played Miguel Arango, a teenager who moves to Mexico City to avenge...
Read More