Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 16, 1940
Place of Birth:
Mozhaysk, Moskovsksya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Herardo Kontreras (Spanish: Gerardo Contreras, Russian: Херардо Контрерас; April 16, 1940, Mozhaysk – March 1, 2009) was an Estonian actor of Basque origin.
His parents fled to the Soviet Union from the Franco regime. His father had been a pilot in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, and his mother a teacher.
In 1967, Contreras graduated from the Ivan Karpovich Karpenko-Kary State Institute of Theater, Cinema and Television in Kiev. From 1967 until his death, he was an actor at the Russian Drama Theater.
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Georg | Worker in Estonia |
| 2005 | Shop of Dreams | Stjopa |
| 2005 | The Idiot | |
| 2003 | The Idiot | Lebedev |
| 2002 | Lilya 4-ever | Anna's Neighbour |
| 1997 | All My Lenins | Russian Villager |
| 1994 | American Mountains | |
| 1994 | The Firewater | Janitor |
| 1993 | City Unplugged | Doctor |
| 1992 | Время вашей жизни | |
| 1988 | Dance Around the Steam Boiler | |
| 1986 | Puud olid... | Alajaani Märt |
| 1986 | The Preservation of Secret | Kuptsov |
| 1985 | Long Memory | |
| 1984 | Lurich | Wagon Accompanist |
| 1976 | Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat | Unanyan |
| 1971 | Hail, Mary! |
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