Diego Peretti

Diego Peretti was born in Buenos Aires in 1963. He always had two great passions: acting and medicine. For years he knew how to combine both until the psychiatrist preferred to change the sofa for the cameras. And that Peretti saw acting as a hobby that he could combine with his medical studies. It was in the second year when he began to go to an acting school, since the description of ‘hobby’ did not prevent him from taking his acting passion seriously. At that time, the young student was advancing at the same rate in his career as a doctor and as an actor. And after graduating, he went on to do residency and perform theater. He practiced psychiatry at the same time that he was doing works like ‘Angelito by Tito Cossa’ or ‘Volver a La Habana by Osvaldo Dragún’ on stage. Everything continued to fit and Peretti had time to take his first steps on television. And 1994 arrived, a key year in the actor’s career. He acted in ‘The class enemy’ andAdrián Suar went to see the play. He noticed him and proposed a role in the television series Poliladron. The character he played -El Tarta¬- became one of the most loved by the Argentine public.

Poliladron was the accolade of his acting career. Psychiatry was losing ground and in the second year of shooting the series, Peretti decided to abandon ‘therapy’. And it is that he had already begun his acting career with all the letters. In 1997 he got his first small role for a movie: Sueño de los héroes . Without leaving television, Peretti continued in the cinema until he made his debut as a protagonist in Los últimos días (1999), a medium-length film directed by Damián Szifron , with whom he had worked on the short “Punto stalemate”. It was not until 2001 that the recognition of Peretti crossed the Argentine borders and it was thanks to the main role of Taxi, a meeting. Gabriela David proposed an almost therapeutic film where Peretti fit in perfectly. The former psychiatrist was a thief who knew a teenager who survived a serious incident. The peculiar relationship between the two is the basis of the film.

Who perfectly combined acting and psychiatry for years now knows how to combine film and television. In 2002 Damián Szifron proposed to him to be a member of the team of the television series Los Simuladores . The success of the public in Argentina made countries like Spain create their version of the series. The laurels came to Peretti twice: he received recognition for his leading role and for being the series’ alma mater, since he served as co-writer.

The ascending staircase had begun and the path led Peretti to Juan Taratuto . The director offered him the lead role in the dramatic comedy It’s not you, it’s me (2004), where he plays a man abandoned by his wife shortly after getting married. This is another almost therapeutic film proposal, in which the protagonist fights against loneliness. The film was Peretti’s letter of introduction in Spain and helped him win the Best Actor Award at the Lleida Film Festival.

In 2005, he starred in the action miniseries Criminal , well received by the audience. Television was served and it was a good time to continue with the cinema. She did not neglect the call of her already old acquaintance, Damián Szifron, when he proposed that she star in Tiempo de valientes with Luis Luque . In his previous successes, Peretti’s characters needed a psychiatrist. In Szifron’s tape the tables turned, and who better than Dr. Peretti to play a psychoanalyst. Peretti’s second film released in Spain, for the actor it is “an immense joy”. He confesses that he would love to work with Alejandro Amenábar, a wish that may one day come true. For the moment, the comedy Nadie dice que es fácil has returned to film under the orders of Juan Taratuto . Until its premiere, Peretti will continue with his life. The life of a rather serious guy who needs to be alone at times. And that he is clear that he prefers to be at home with his family – he has had a wife for ten years and a daughter -, reading or listening to music, rather than going to parties and events typical of the world of actors. Reflection weighs heavily on his life, one only has to see how he relates what were his two passions: psychiatry and cinema. “With one you analyze and reflect from a scientific point of view, and with the other you do it from an artistic perspective.”