If a few months ago “The Squid Game” occupied the first place among Netflix’s most watched series, now that position is occupied by “Woman’s Scent Coffee”, the remake of the popular soap opera that swept in 1994 and that tells the story love story of Gaviota, a farmer, and Sebastián, a young man from an aristocratic coffee-producing family.
A fiction that has in its cast with the participation of great stars such as William Levy, in the role of Sebastián, and Laura Londoño, who plays Gaviota.
But who is William Levy and why has half the world fallen in love? Born on August 29 of 1980 in Cojímar, Cuba, Levy is the oldest of three siblings. He grew up with his mother, stepfather, and maternal grandfather.
In full adolescence he legally emigrated to the United States, where his stepfather obtained political asylum and once there he began to study acting in Miami, Los Angeles and Mexico City.
While studying drama he practiced baseball, one of his great hobbies, which allowed him to get a scholarship to study at the university, where he enrolled in business administration, but after two years he left.
Hired by the modeling agency Next Models, he made his first steps in the world of fashion and participated in two reality shows “La Isla de las temptaciones” and “Protagonistas de novela 2”.
His first leading role came with the soap opera “Care with the angel” and after it came many other projects that established the name of William Levy as the leading man of the small screen, among them ‘Sortilegio’, ‘Triunfo del amor’, ‘ The tempest ‘, etc.
In addition, he was the voice of Captain Chuck Baker in the animated film “Planet 5” and participated in Hollywood feature films such as “The Single Moms Club” and “Addicted.” Later he would join the cast of the film “Resident Evil: Final Chapter.”
As a model, he has been the image of major brands such as Dolce & Gabanna, Pepsi and Oral B, among others. But also, Levy is a man of solidarity. He has adopted 36 children through the Mexican foundation “Un kilo de ayuda”.
Regarding his personal life, he is the father of two children, Christopher Alexander and Kailey, he had the fruit of his relationship with the Mexican-American actress Elizabeth Gutiérrez.