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| Popular As | Jhonny Obando |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 38 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 12, 1985 (Cali, Colombia) |
| Birthday | August 12 |
| Town/City | Cali, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombia |
Jhonny Obando’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Jhonny Obando was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Jhonny Obando is a former Ecuadorian actor, filmmaker and cultural manager who also holds American citizenship. Son of Rika Obando, an Ecuadorian migrant who settled in Miami, since the 90s.He moved to Ecuador from Colombia at the age of 8th, finished high school in the province of Esmeraldas.
When he was 18, he moved to Quito, where he started a short career as a magazine model. In 2001, he lived for two months in Guayaquil, and then, he moved to live in Miami, Florida in the United States with his mother.
That year (2001) he won a contest at Baron Da Parre, modeling school, and in 2002, he won the second place in a local modeling contest.His acting career began at Miami Dade College with the Cuban teacher Sandra Garcia, and then enrolled in CIFALC (School for the Performing Arts) where he spent 3 years of his life, preparing himself as an actor.
After his gratuation, in 2006 he moved to Hollywood, Florida. His film debut as an actor was a feature film called Lapsus (2007), in which he played a supporting role; then came other titles as Carpe Diem (2009), God bless the child (2009), Flea market finish line (2012, official selection at the 2013 Cannes film festival, France), among may others.
While living in Hollywood, he became interested in creating stories, producing and directing them, and for that he enrolled in the International Academy of tv and film production, Cebu, in which he made, after his graduation, his debut short film as screenplay writer, producer and director called Suddenly the sunrise (2008), version of the which, months before, he made an experimental version, that only close friends know.
That same year, 2008, he created his company Obandovision, which months later would become Renacer Films. From then on, he began his career as a filmmaker and cultural manager, writing, producing and directing several short films, music videos and short documentaries.
In 2011 he launched the campaign to support Iberoamerican cinema with the foundation Breaking Frontiers, created by a group of Ecuadorians, Dominican, Colombian, Brazilian and other Hispanic actors and filmmakers friends.
In 2012 he presented his opera prima, an 83-minute feature film called With Elizabeth in Mount Dora, made in part with fellow emerging filmmakers and actors friends of his generation and new ones, from CIFALC, the acting school where he graduated.
A year later he wanted to make a new short film and among many scripts of his authorship, he decided on Esperando (Time to be), a short film that opened many doors to him and actually is a hit on the internet.
In 2014 he moved back to Guayaquil, Ecuador to create the FestiCineGye Foundation, which was consolidated in 2018, the foundation currently produces the Guayaquil International Film Festival, which he has directed since its first edition, and others of the goals of his move, was to get a bachelor degree in mass communication.
In 2015, he launched the film The path of the sun, which began in the United States and ended in Ecuador. The next few years, he dedicated himself exclusively to the film festival and university life, until in 2018 he released his third feature film entitled Nice guy Julio, and appeared as Alouqua in the feature film The lady in the veil, based in the popular Ecuadorian urban legend La dama tapada .
He also accepted to participate in the feature film American Dream, which will be released in 2020.
