Biography

Carlos Tuccio was a theater, film and television actor, he was also recognized in 2013 by the State as a Meritorious Personality of Culture. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Tuccio worked in the 1950s in radio plays and later was part of the first casts of Peruvian television. Of Italian descent and an economist by profession, he worked for 36 years in banking. Since the early 1950s, he participated in countless plays such as “The Great Theater of the World,” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Before the pandemic, he participated in the play “Much Ado About Nothing,” by William Shakespeare.

Some of the most remembered films in which he acted are “El tesoro de Atahualpa” (1968), “No se lo digas a nadie” (1998) and “Pantaleón y las visitadoras” (1999).