
Carlos Barbosa
Carlos Alfonso Barbosa Romero (Cali, January 15, 1944 – Bogotá, October 9, 2025) was a Colombian actor and director of television, film, and theater. Barbosa earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Valle in Cali, where he was part of the university’s theater group, which later became the Department of Performing Arts. He later joined the National Theater Company of Colombia, which went on a tour that ended in Costa Rica. Afterward, he moved to San Andrés and Providencia before returning to Bogotá, where he joined the cast of the Teatro Popular de Bogotá (TPB). His television debut took place in 1969 in the telenovela Candó. Among his most memorable television roles are Eurípides, a gay hairdresser, in the 1986 telenovela El Divino; the doorman of the apartment building where the Casas family lived in the children’s show Imagínate (1988); and Ernesto in the comedy series Vuelo secreto (1992–1998). Carlos Barbosa also appeared in La saga: negocio de familia (2004) and Bermúdez (2009), in which he played Gerardo Bermúdez. In 2010, he portrayed Abdul in El clon, a Telemundo production. He passed away on October 9, 2025, at his home in Bogotá, after battling multiple myeloma for two months, a condition that progressively worsened.
7
Films
5
TV Shows
Known For
12 Credits
Bermúdez
as Gerardo Bermúdez (
2009

Los protegidos
as Bernardo Puerta
2008

La de Troya
as Frank
2018

En Los Tacones De Eva
as Olimpo
2006

The Grandmother
1979

Pasiones Secretas
as Samuel Estevez
1993

El candidato
1978

Bolivar Is Me
as Minister of Defense
2002

Pisingaña
as Jorgito
1986

Y nos fuimos pal' mundial
as Guilberto
2018

Holy Expectations
2019

Ayer me echaron del Pueblo
1982