Cuban Actress Tahimí Alvariño Returns to Colombia: "It's Like Coming Home"

August 22, 2026

Cuban actress Tahimí Alvariño shared an emotional message on social media on August 20, 2026, after returning to Bogotá, the city where she lived for nearly a decade and where her son Diego was born. "Being back in Colombia is like coming home," she wrote, adding: "Returning to familiar places, walking your streets... Bogotá of my loves."

Born in Havana on February 24, 1969, Alvariño is the daughter of actress Coralita Veloz and granddaughter of musicians Ramoncito Veloz and Coralia Fernández. Trained at Cuba's Higher Institute of Art (ISA), she built a solid career in Cuban television and film with productions including "Punto 40," "El Ojo de la Noche" and "Hoy Es Siempre Todavía," and won an award at the Málaga Film Festival in Spain for her role in "Lista de Espera."

Alvariño's move to Colombia came through the telenovela "Oye, Bonita," a project that led her to settle in the country for nearly ten years and, as she has described it, build a career from scratch in an unfamiliar market. Though she has resumed work in Cuban television in recent years, the actress remains closely tied to Bogotá, a city she has called her "second home."