Actor Chete Lera dies in a traffic accident at the age of 73

Chete Lera, Galician actor (Pontevedra, 1949) known for his work in the theater and in some of the best-known films of Spanish cinema of the last three decades, has died in Malaga in a car accident.

In his curriculum there are films like

, by Julio Medem,

, by Montxo, Family and Neighborhood, by Fernando León de Aranoa, or

, by Alejandro Amenábar, as well as a well-remembered

directed by Juan Carlos de la Fuente and premiered at the Teatro Español in 2007 based on a text by Alfonso Sastre.

Lera was the driver and sole occupant of the car that yesterday, at 6:50 p.m., fell off a cliff

, and fell down a drop of around 50 meters to a plantation, as reported by Civil Protection.

Lera's career began in 1978, when Lara was in his twenties working in a private company and, in search of meaning for his days off, he began studying psychology and entered an amateur theater workshop at the college.

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