Luis Fernández

Luis Eduardo Fernández Oliva (born 14 March 1973 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actor, writer, producer and director. He started his career on stage at age 16, to film, television, radio and publishing. Fernández has won several acting awards, and recently has published several books, comprising the series Sexo Sentido ("The Sex Sense"), that have been best-sellers in his native Venezuela. He developed his directorial skills on stage and his directorial debut in filmmaking was with the short film Blue Sky produced at the New York Film Academy, which has been selected to the official competition in several international film festivals. He has performed for over three years his own stand-up show It's not you, it's me (No eres tú, soy yo), recording over 600 performances. Fernández is also an architect, having graduated in 1991 from the Universidad Simón Bolívar, in Caracas, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He is married to the Venezuelan actress Mimí Lazo.