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Biography

Born in Santiago de Chile, he's still a child when his family leaves the country, during the Pinochet years. First, he arrives to Australia, where he goes to school for a little while, before his family settles down in France. There he studies, with various trips to Italy, and gets his High School Certificate.

The first professional decade is entirely devoted to theatre. First as an actor, then as a playwright, and finally as a director. He begins in the Théâtre des Loges company, under the direction of Michel Mourtérot, creating plays such as The Torn Curtain (creation, by M. Mourtérot), The Constant Players from Marivaux (lead actor), and Don Juan or the Man of Ashes from André Obey (from the Comédie-Française). Then Héctor Cabello Reyes creates his own company, the Théâtre du Cap (disappeared now), with which he stages hiw own plays, such as The Cavendish Vortex (a drama, winning the most important French acting school prize, Cours Florent's), Jack Said So (a tragical comedy with collective creation) and Molière's George Dandin, which Cabello Reyes adapted to old dialectal peasant French. He also co-directs Annibal, a 5 acts tragedy from Marivaux, in a Pavillon Baltard / Palais des Arts production.

The TV transition : during four extremely intensive years, Héctor Cabello Reyes writes, directs and acts in sketches for French TV on the Comedy channel (Comédie+), then is recruited for the most important TV show of its time, Nulle Part Ailleurs (Nowhere Else) on Canal+. Then he writes for Jean Dujardin's TV show, "A Boy and a Girl" ("Un Gars, Une Fille"), before Dujardin became 2012 Academy Award Winner with "the Artist".

The cinema years : in 2002, Héctor Cabello Reyes sells his first screenplay, The Concert. The movie took 8 years to get into production, but it ended with a Golden Globes nomination, a Cesars best screenplay nomination, and sold 4 millions tickets worldwide. The Weinstein Company buys the USA rights for 1 million dollars on the basis of the sole script. It's also on June 2002 that a long collaboration begins with comedy co-writer Eric Lavaine : together, they write Back to Mom's, Barbecue, Poltergay (2006), Incognito (2009, 1M25 tickets sold), To Protect and To Serve (2010), Welcome Aboard] (2011, 1M5 tickets sold), among with some TV shows.

As a script doctor, he works for the major French studios, such as Pathé and StudioCanal.

Presently, the most important part of Héctor Cabello Reyes' work is oriented towards creating international projects, for TV or Cinema, and he's currently showrunning a history drama for french TV.