Erick Elías

Erick Elias arrived by the least romantic route open to a telenovela lead: he won a reality show. Protagonistas de Novela, in 2003, was effectively a televised audition, and taking it turned a young actor whose resume amounted to a pair of youth series from 2000 into someone the networks would build a schedule around.

Telemundo used him first, in Second chance and as Renzo in Zorro: La espada y la rosa, and Storm Over Paradise gave him his first leading role in 2007. A decade of Televisa protagonists followed: Gabriel in En nombre del amor, the rich comic lead of Porque el Amor Manda, Marcelo in The Color of Passion. Those parts share a template, the handsome man with a moral problem, and Elias plays the moral problem better than most leads working in the format, which is the entire job.

Betty in New York handed him Armando Mendoza, a role that carries one of the longest shadows in Spanish-language television, and 100 dias para enamorarnos let him work in a lighter, more modern comic register. The recent credits lean toward straight drama: The Accident and Sisters' Feud in 2024, Between Father and Son in 2026.