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Today marks one year of the death of the Colombian actor Leonardo Zapata Bohorquez, better known as Sebastián Boscán.
Boscán died at the age of fifty-one in the city of Medellín, Colombia, due to stomach cancer.
His career
It was in 2002 when he began his artistic career, in the Colombian novel called “La Venganza”, in which he played a character named “Marco Tulio Valerugo”.
But the following year he would obtain the role with which he achieved stardom, this in the Colombian telenovela Pasión de gavilanes in 2003.
There he gave life to a character named Leandro Santos.
This novel captured the entire audience at the turn of the century. Recently, it was learned that Netflix has been a success.
There were 188 episodes during this first season of Pasión de Gavilanes, which began on October 21, 2003 and ended on July 23 of the following year.
His death
At the age of 51, Boscán lost his life against a very aggressive stomach cancer.
The media, on November 29 of last year, announced the death of the renowned actor.
“Thank you Sebastián for all your talent, for all your acting, for great characters,” commented journalist Carlos Ochoa, a friend very close to the actor
The character of Leonardo Santos did not appear in the second season of Pasión de gavilanes.
And it is that after almost 20 years the second part of this production was announced, which brought so much success in 2003.
But for this version several original characters did not appear in the cast, among them the one who Boscán interpreted.
The reason is because Leandro’s family did not exist in the new script at the time it was written.
This was revealed by the actress Danna García, through their social networks.
Boscan participation
Here you will learn about part of the filmography in which the Colombian actor participated during his career, then of Passion of Gavilanes.
In 2005 he was in “La mujer en el espejo”, where he played Pedro Baraja. A year later he was Camilo in Montecristo. In 2007 he was Erasmo Casillimas in Madre Luna.
2008 was a busy year in his career, he was in Sin senos no hay paraíso, Doña Bárbara and No return.
His last participation was in 2021, where he was in The Cartel of the Toads: the origin.