Fernando Colunga opens up about his love life and desire to have children

Fernando Colunga was born March 3, 1966 in Mexico City. His father was engineer Fernando Colunga, who passed away in 2019 while battling a chronic illness. His mother is Margarita Olivares, a housewife who devoted herself completely to family life.

This actor is an only child, so from a very young age he had the attention of his parents and close relatives. As a child he stood out for his talent for the arts, although he would not follow his passions until much later.

Fernando Colunga’s childhood was full of happiness. His family was not rich, but since his father was an engineer, they had everything they needed to live comfortably. From an early age Fernando began to have an interest in the arts and, as expected, he showed it in school.

As a child he started participating in festivals and cultural activities at his school. It was clear that his talent was acting, but for many years art would be just a hobby for him.

After finishing his high school education and, not knowing what career to choose in college, Fernando opted to follow in his father’s footsteps. At a very young age he began studying Civil Engineering, thinking that he would do well along the way.

Unfortunately, the actor did not culminate the career, as he realized that Engineering was not his thing. Instead, he preferred to start a working life that would lead him to experience different trades.

Once he dropped out of Civil Engineering, Fernando started working on his own. His plan was to start his own business, so, in the company of some friends and partners, he set out to open a hardware store.

In no time the business was up and running. It was a small shop located in Mexico City that was run mainly by young people. It sold any kind of tools for the home.

Unfortunately, shortly after the hardware store opened, it went bankrupt. The reason for the failure of the business was the lack of experience of the partners and some bad management decisions.

Thanks to the breakup, Fernando was forced to look for another job to earn money. It was at this stage when the young Colunga began to experiment with different trades.

Shortly after his first business failed, Fernando got a job as a car salesman. His job consisted of serving customers at a dealership and advising them during the buying process.

During this stage Fernando did very well. Not only was he one of the best salesmen, but he also demonstrated some managerial skills that allowed him to stop being a salesman and achieve a promotion at his workplace.

After being a salesman for over a year, Fernando was offered the opportunity to take an administrative position at the dealership where he worked. This season he was making more money, however, he was starting to want to do something more with his life.

Routine and other minor factors made Fernando leave his position as administrative assistant. It was at that moment when he considered all his options and began to pursue his passions.

While Fernando was deciding what to do, he started working as a barista in a small café in Mexico City. Yes, just as you read it, for a while the current telenovela star was serving coffee. Although he didn’t make much money as a barista, at least he had gotten out of the routine of his previous job.

Fernando was working at this cafe for a few months. Little by little he realized where he wanted to direct his future. Engineering, car sales and coffee, were the steps Colunga had to climb to know what he wanted to dedicate himself to.

Finally, at the age of 22 Fernando decided to try his luck in the world of acting. After experimenting with various trades he realized that this was what he really wanted.

Although at that age Fernando had no acting experience beyond the small roles he had done in school plays, the young man wanted to follow his passions and instincts to eventually conquer his dreams.

Getting started in the world of acting was not easy for Fernando Colunga. For starters, his lack of experience and his age prevented him from taking juvenile roles at the beginning of his career. However, he did not give up.

Fernando attended a large number of castings and even came to think that it would be impossible to fulfill his dream of being an actor. The good news is that sooner rather than later his luck turned around, and his first acting project arrived.

After several months of casting, Fernando received his first movie role. It was a Mexican production called La guerrera vengadora, which was released in 1988.

In this movie Fernando exploited his motorcycle skills. This was one of the reasons he was given the character. Anyway, The Avenging Warrior was not very successful at the box office, but it gave the young actor the experience he needed.

Right after his participation in La guerrera vengadora, Fernando was hired to work as a stunt double. His first telenovela was called Dulce desafío, and Colunga acted as Eduardo Yañez’s stunt double.

In this production Fernando again took advantage of his motorcycle skills. Most of his scenes were replacing Yañez while driving this vehicle. Although Fernando did not have a character of his own in this production, with it he was able to officially enter the world of telenovelas.

After his participation in La guerrera vengadora and Dulce desafío, Fernando wanted to immerse himself completely in the artistic world. That’s how he began studying acting at Televisa’s Centro de Educación Artística in 1990.

These formative years served Fernando to prepare himself and to meet more people in the medium. Thanks to this he was later able to enter new artistic projects that would launch his career to the top.

While still studying at CEA, Fernando got an appearance on the well-known children’s program Plaza Sésamo. This was the first appearance in a Mexican television program in which he played himself.

Thanks to Plaza Sésamo, Fernando began to be recognized in Mexican homes. Little by little he stopped being a stuntman to become a promise of Mexican television.

After participating in Plaza Sésamo, Fernando had the opportunity to work in other television shows. Some of the shows he participated in were La telaraña, La hora marcada and Todo de todo.

By this time he was already a recognized actor in almost all of Mexico. The hardware store boy was behind him, now he had become one of the most sought after actors in the television industry.

By 1995 Fernando was offered one of the biggest opportunities of his entire career. He was being considered to star in one of the most iconic telenovelas of all time, María la del barrio.

This would be Colunga’s first leading role and, as expected, he accepted with his eyes closed. This novela not only broke audience records in Mexico, but it was also famous all over the world. Thanks to this, Fernando’s career reached the top.

While filming María la del Barrio, the rumor started that Fernando Colunga was dating his co-star, Thalía. Both actors began to be seen together off the set with quite romantic attitudes.

Since in the telenovela the two were a couple, this seemed like one of those cases where love goes from fiction to real life. However, rumors about their relationship were not long in coming.

Some media outlets started claiming that the relationship between Colunga and Thalia was just a marketing strategy. This made sense considering that María la del barrio was occupying the first places of tuning in the whole country.

Despite the rumors, Fernando and Thalia continued dating for more than a year. Neither of them faced the rumors from the press and simply dedicated themselves to living their relationship.

Although they never addressed the issue of having a relationship just to promote the soap opera, their courtship ended in 1996. Since it all happened right after the end of the production’s transmissions, rumors of the courtship only grew.

Neither of the two gave details about the breakup, it seems that things just stayed there. However, in recent interviews both artists assured that they maintain a beautiful friendship.

After starring in María la del barrio, Fernando was positioned in the first places of popularity of the Mexican show business. By this time the actor was receiving acting proposals both in Mexico and the rest of the world.

His growing fame and talent helped him to cross borders, and made him one of the most sought after leading men in Latin America. Of course, he took advantage of the moment to play some of his most important characters.

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In 1998 Fernando was called to play one of the most important characters of his artistic career. Once again he was called to star in a telenovela, this time alongside Venezuelan Gaby Spanic.

The telenovela was called La usurpadora, and was undoubtedly one of Fernando Colunga’s most important acting projects. This production, like María la del barrio, was one of the milestones of this actor’s career.

In 2000, Colunga went through one of the most relevant rumors of his acting career. While starring in the telenovela Abrázame muy fuerte, he was said to be in a relationship with Aracely Arámbula, his co-star.

This courtship, like the one he had with Thalia, was never confirmed. It was also said that it was a strategy to promote the telenovela. Once filming ended, this supposed relationship also ended. Aracely Arámbula soon began dating singer Luis Miguel.

In 2004, Fernando wanted to experiment with his artistic career, thanks to this he immersed himself in the world of theater. His first play was called Trampa de muerte and was a success in the theaters of Mexico City.

Although his theatrical facet was successful, this actor did not devote himself entirely to it because of his other work commitments. Throughout his entire artistic life, Fernando has participated in only 4 plays. Despite this, all of them have been a success.

While Fernando Colunga was working in the telenovela Amor real, it was said that the actor maintained a relationship with Ernesto Laguardia. Although Ernesto today has a beautiful family, by that time there were rumors of an alleged bisexuality.

It was said that both actors were constantly running away from the filming sets, and had even been caught kissing on several occasions. In addition, the 2 had been photographed in somewhat romantic attitudes.

Unfortunately, as had become customary for Fernando, this relationship was never confirmed. Shortly after the telenovela’s filming ended, the rumors ended and everything went back to normal.

Ernesto married Patricia Rodriguez in 2007. This marriage quashed any rumors about the actor’s bisexuality. However, even today there is still talk about his alleged relationship with Colunga.

Despite the fact that he had already been romantically linked to Thalia and Aracely Arámbula, Colunga’s fans began to suspect his homosexuality. This was due to the lack of confirmation about his previous relationships and his alleged romance with Ernesto Laguardia.

The truth, is that until that moment nothing was known about the sentimental life of this actor. This gave the public and the press the opportunity to speculate about whatever they wanted.

In several interviews, Fernando Colunga has made it clear that he prefers to keep his private life away from the media. According to him, he does not want to feed the gossip invented by the press through his statements.

However, keeping his dating life out of the spotlight has only brought him rumors. With no certainty about what’s going on with his life, fans and the media are given to guessing and sometimes inventing.

On several occasions Fernando Colunga has explicitly declared to be heterosexual. However, it seems that his public and the press do not quite believe him. It is quite common that in his interviews questions about his sexuality are present.

The good thing, is that Fernando pays no attention to these rumors, as he has never bothered to deny them. Either way, the sentimental life of this actor remains a complete mystery to everyone.

Other rumors state that since 2012 Fernando has been in a relationship with actress Blanca Soto. This couple coincided in the recordings of the telenovela Porque el amor manda. Curiously, during 2012 Blanca divorced Jack Hartnett, to whom she was married for 6 years.

By all accounts, Colunga and Soto had moved to Miami to live their love story. Although, as expected, this was never confirmed by either party.

In case this relationship ever existed, it is most likely already over. This couple was never seen in public, nor did they ever show any interest in each other while working together.

In addition, rumors about Fernando’s love life have only increased. Meanwhile, Blanca Soto has been completely focused on her career and personal projects.

Ernesto Laguardia is just one of the many men Fernando Colunga has been romantically linked to. While it is true that Fernando has never confirmed anything, the press and his fans have taken it upon themselves to look for all his possible romances.

Throughout his artistic career Fernando has been linked to Eugenio Cobo, Noé Murayama, Víctor Noriega, Luis Roberto Guzmán and many other renowned actors and executives.

Of course, even though the rumors exist, Fernando has always taken it upon himself to ignore them or deny them altogether. The really strange thing is that he has never been seen officially with any of his alleged partners, male or female.

It doesn’t seem to matter what rumor is going around. Fernando Colunga has an uncanny ability to completely ignore it and make his audience think nothing is going on.

One of Fernando Colunga’s most recent homosexual rumors involves one of his best friends, Eduardo Yañez. This pair during 2015 starred in a Mexican movie called Ladrones, and that’s where their alleged story began.

What is officially known is that both were photographed in romantic and compromising situations. This, added to Fernando’s long list of alleged love affairs, made the press intuit a possible relationship.

Once the project culminated, any possible relationship between the two was flatly denied. It was said that it had all been the product of a joke on the part of the actors, who have maintained a very solid friendship for more than 30 years.

It should be remembered that Eduardo Yañez is divorced since 2003. The actor’s last partner was Africa Zavala, with whom he had a brief romance during 2015.

Many media have been wondering why Fernando Colunga is still single. We are talking about one of the most recognized actors in all of Mexico. Besides, Fernando is a successful businessman and a real heartthrob.

Fernando himself recently answered this during an interview. According to the actor, his strong character and his expectations of a relationship have kept him away from love. It seems that he has expected more than he has received from his partners and this is why he has remained single.

Although he is not known to have a formal partner and his sexual orientation is unknown, Fernando has never denied his desire to be a father. According to the actor, he wants to give his son all the love and affection that his father gave him.

However, at 54 years old, Fernando does not seem to be in a hurry to start a family. As far as is known, the actor is still single and does not have an engagement. Possibly he wants to wait to get love so that his son can have a big family.

Although many aspects of Fernando’s life are very unclear, one thing is for sure, he prefers not to share his private life with the media. As much as he is asked to talk about his partners, this actor is reluctant to do so.

It seems that he prefers to live his life in a free way and without paying attention to rumors. The truth is that if after 30 years he hasn’t changed this point of view, it’s unlikely he will do it now.

Fernando Colunga is currently taking a well-deserved break from his work as an actor. His last television production was filmed in 2016 and, to tell the truth, many believed he would retire.

Although he has stayed away from the media for the last 4 years, it is common to see Fernando attending awards and social events. He has also been seen in different interviews, always talking about his professional life.

It is not known for sure what’s next in Fernando Colunga’s artistic life. This actor has not given further details about his future projects or personal plans. What is clear is that he does not need his artistic life to live comfortably.

Colunga founded an audiovisual production and artist management company in Miami, so his future is secure. Currently, while he takes a break from his artistic life, he is dedicated to his entrepreneurial side.

What is more than clear is that the press and his fans will continue to attribute loves and heartbreaks to him until he gets married. In his 30 years of artistic life this actor has gone through more rumors than can be counted.

Anyway, it is expected that sooner rather than later Fernando will find love. Maybe then he can become a father and form the wonderful family he dreams of.