Luis Rielo Morejón

Distinguished Cuban actor in radio, cinema, and television. Known for his villain characters in the television program Aventuras de la Televisión, as well as in other dramatized productions. Throughout his artistic career he has received multiple accolades for his outstanding work.

He was the fourth of seven siblings. When he was 6 months old the family moved to his uncle's farm called San Manuel de Pita. Son of a Spanish father, very upright, very honorable, but extremely poor. He worked in the Ciénaga de Zapata south of Matanzas province making railroad ties, which only allowed him to be home 2 or 3 times a month.

At 7 years old the family moved to Las Catalinas and later to María Dolores where he began to attend rural school, there he discovered electricity. In that sugar mill village there was a warehouse where they showed a movie every Sunday, that was his first encounter with art and from there came the idea of becoming an actor.

Later the family moved to Havana and there he worked at whatever he could: he sold lottery tickets, coal, vegetables, he was a store clerk.

One time he was notified of a newspaper ad about an acting teacher, but the cost of classes amounted to 15 pesos and he only earned 25 a month and the store schedule didn't allow for it. He found another job with his brother where the salary was higher and he attended the classes. Since he was almost illiterate and also had a speech impediment with the letter R, the teacher told him he would never be an actor.

He returned home, found every magazine he could, newspapers, everything he had at hand, locked himself in a bathroom and spent 24 hours there reading aloud with a pencil in his mouth.

In the next class, in which the teacher barely paid attention to him, he began to read the same text again, the teacher approached him, placed his hand on him and told him "sorry, you will be an actor", He left there believing himself to be the greatest actor in the world. He had surgery to correct his speech impediment and studied and read every moment he had available.

The first time he acted was in the play The King's Mailman with Néstor Molina and directed by Erick Santa María, at the Teatro Nuestro Tiempo, which meant the realization of all his dreams.
Performing one of his many characters for television.

In radio he first worked as an actor and later alternated as director. The most remembered characters are: Corporal Rocha in the program Taguarí, the first one he performed, and the character of Jacinto in the soap opera Kety Villada on Radio Progreso, Nguyen Soung on Radio Liberación, starring Juan Carlos Romero.

The first important character on television was in the program Carlos Valiente, a series broadcast by CMQ television in 1966, the character was named Marcus and was a villain.

In 1963 he began working with Silvano Suárez in the space Aventura, where he participated in the second series of Zorro, he acted as one of the Malpica brothers. There he became known as the program became very popular.

In 1985 Cuban television broadcast the soap opera Sol de Batey, original idea by Dora Alonso under the direction of Roberto Garriga, where he played the evil foreman Matías. In this work, he shared the screen with great Cuban actors and actresses such as Verónica Lynn, Ramoncito Veloz, Aurora Pita, Fidelio Torres, Luisa María Jiménez, Gladys Zurbano, Idelfonso Tamayo, among others.

He has worked in more than thirty adventures among which stand out: Los Vikingos, Los Mambises, El Halcón Negro, Contra el invasor, Los comandos del silencio, El secreto del Rey Sol, El Mayor, El jaguar, En la retaguardia del enemigo, Los pequeños fugitivos, Memorias de un abuelo, Como un sol de fuego... and in many others he played negative characters.
In Cinema

He starred in the film Polo viejo bajo mi piel, directed by Jorge R. Padilla.

He has worked with great directors in radio, television, and cinema. In Radio: Sol Pinelli, Xiomara Blanco, Oscar Luis López, who also taught him how to direct, he learned a lot of acting and direction from him. In television: Erick Kaupp, Silvano Suárez, Roberto Garriga, Antonio Vázquez Gallo, Jesús Cabrera, Eduardo Moya, Miguel Sanabria, among others. In cinema he was directed by Manuel Octavio Gómez, Octavio Cortázar, Manolo Pérez.

Awards and Recognition

ACTUAR Award for Life's Work 2010 granted by the Artistic Agency of Performing Arts ACTUAR
Caricato Award granted by UNEAC in the category of male acting in 2012
National Television Prize 2019
Artist of Merit of the ICRT
Distinction for National Culture
Raúl Gómez García Medal

On June 24, 2021 he received in Havana the Replica of the Machete of Generalísimo Máximo Gómez, from the hands of the Minister of the FAR General of Army Corps Álvaro López Miera.