Jake Canuso
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Jake Canuso (born Carmine Canuso on 13 January 1970) is an italian actor and dancer, who is best known for his role in the Benidorm-based British TV series Benidorm, in which he plays barman Mateo Castellanos.
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Early life
Canuso was born near Zurich, Switzerland, to immigrants from southern Italy. Canuso is fluent in English, German, Spanish, French, Swiss-German and Italian.[citation needed]
Career
Previously a dancer, Canuso appeared dressed as a ballet dancer in the music video for 'No More I Love Yous' by Annie Lennox and also appeared in the video of Alex Party's 1995 hit single 'Don't Give Me Your Life' as well as the video for Carter USM's Let's Get Tattoos and 2 unlimited's 1994 hit, Here I go.
Jake can also be seen dancing in the video for the 1994 hit 'Son of a Gun' by British dance DJ JX known as Jake Williams.
Canuso stars in the ITV comedy series Benidorm as barman Mateo Castellanos and is the sitcom's longest-serving actor alongside Janine Duvitski who plays Jacqueline.
In January 2013, Canuso participated in ITV diving show Splash!, hosted by Tom Daley
Filmography
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- School for Seduction (2004)
- Kinky Boots (2005)
- Russian Dolls (2005)
- Piccadilly Jim (2006)
- In A Day (2006)
- Flyboys (2006)
- Flirting with Flamenco (2006)
- Tick Tock Lullaby (2007)
- Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)
- City Rats (2009)
- Nine (2009)
- Naachle London (2011)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- Sammy (2013)
Television acting
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- Hustle (2004)
- Keen Eddie (2004)
- Heartbeat (2005)
- Casualty (2005)
- Doctors (2006)
- Suburban Shootout (2007)
- Shameless (2009)
- The Hour (2012)
- The Bible - Daniel (2013)
- Benidorm (2007–Present)[1][2]
- Bad Education (2013)
- Cardinal Burns (2014)
Guest appearances
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- Spiceworld: The Tour — dancer (1998)
- Benidorm — DVD extras (2010)
- Buzz magazine — interviewee (2011)
- Louie Spence's Showbusiness (2011)
- OK! TV (2011)
- This Morning (2011)
- All Star Family Fortunes (series 6 episode 11, Christmas 2011)
- Loose Women (2012)
- This Morning (2012)
- Lorraine (2012)
- Celebrity Wedding Planner (2012)
- Splash! (2013)
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2014)
- The Chase (2014)
Video games
- Driver 3 (2004)
References
External links
- Jake Canuso — entry on Vivienne Clore talent agency website
- Jake Canuso on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Jake Canuso at the Internet Movie Database
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- Living people
- Swiss male film actors
- Swiss male television actors
- Swiss male dancers
- LGBT people from Switzerland
- Swiss people of Italian descent
- 1970 births
- Male actors of Italian descent
