Beto Benitez

Biography

Beto Benites (born c. 1970, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian actor, casting director, and producer based in Venezuela. He initially studied law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos before abandoning it for theater, training with Sara Joffré and spending ten years with the Grupo Yuyachkani theater group in Peru. He relocated to Venezuela in the 2000s, where he built his career in both on-screen roles and behind-the-scenes work as a casting director and producer. His most prominent role is Don Luis Sandoval, the drug lord, in Olivier Megaton's Colombiana (2011). His notable film credits include Colombiana (2011) (Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan), The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012) (Joaquín Cosío, Greisy Mena), Bad Hair (2013) (Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange Zambrano), Babysitting 2 (2015) (Philippe Lacheau, Alice David), Km 72 (2015), Paquete #3 (2015), Hermano (2010), Cyrano Fernández (2007), Macuro (2008), and more recently Zafari (2024) and Ramón y Ramón (2024).