User:MABUL MARULANDA

==  Colombian Model and Actor

== == 'Personal Life' = ==

Mabul Marulanda was born in Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia. At the age of two his family baptized him "Mabul". This would later be used as his name as an actor and model. Mabul studied modeling in Medellin and acting at Academia Charlot in Bogota. Mabul's mother, Luz Fabiola Montoya, is a psychologist and astrologer. His father, Ivan Marulanda, has devoted his life to business. Mabul has four siblings: Margie, Maribel, Erika and Cindi.

== ' carrer

Mabul began modeling at a very early age. It was his grandmother, Fabiola Vasquez de Montoya, who introduced Mabul to a modeling agency, where he was quickly signed on to a contract. He soon shot his first television commercial and began modeling professionally for TV commercials, and both print and runway photography for several agencies in Colombia. On March 27, 2000 Mabul was nominated “Best New Model” by Shock Magazine in Bogota, Colombia. In the same year, he began his acting career on a popular Colombian television series called Betty la Fea (Ugly Betty). During the same period, he gained his first role as a regular on the television soap opera El Caballero de Rauzan. Furthermore, in 2000 he signed exclusive contracts both with the La Feria International del Libro and with Pure White, a French spirits company. He is also known for his roles and his modeling work with international brands such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro, Lee Jeans, McDonald's, Dallas Voice Magazine, and Brookhaven College. In 2001, he became even more prominent for his role in the successful series Padres e Hijos, in which he portrayed a psychologically tormented young man. Later, in 2003, he gained a regular role in Ama la Academia, another highly popular Colombian soap (directed by Maria Cecilia Botero).

During summer 2009, Mabul filmed Complicado Corazon, an independent film still in post production in the United States (Luis Torres, director and Kevin Hanraha, producer). In the film, Mabul plays the main character –a humble man who, suffering from amnesia, arrives in a small town and falls in love with a timid and insecure girl.