Sandro Larenas

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Sandro Larenas is a Chilean voice actor, radio announcer, and stage and television performer. Born Sandro Eduardo Larenas Pino in Santiago, Chile, on February 19, 1956, he has built a career spanning over 25 years in the entertainment industry. Larenas studied theater at the University of Chile, graduating in 1978, and began working as a radio announcer the following year. He has also worked as a professor of acting at the Professional Institute of Art and Communication in Santiago. His voice is characterized as a bass-baritone.

In the world of anime, Larenas is known for several prominent roles. He provided the voice for Robin Mask in the series Kinnikuman. He played Childman Powderfield in the anime Orphen. His credits also include the role of Captain Bokuto in You're Under Arrest. Additional anime work includes playing Emerl in Sonic X, an officer in Zoids: New Century Zero, and Captain Fanzone in Transformers Animated.

While he has voiced numerous anime characters, Larenas is most widely recognized for his work outside the genre. He is best known as the official Latin American Spanish voice of Garfield, a role he first took on in Garfield and Friends in the early 1990s. Creator Jim Davis personally selected Larenas for the part from an audition tape sent to New York. He reprised the role in The Garfield Show and returned to the franchise in 2024 to voice Vic, Garfield's father, in the film The Garfield Movie. His other notable voice credits include Donald Trump in The Apprentice and Jack O'Neill in Stargate SG-1.

In 2004, Larenas won the award for Best National Actor at the 12th Santiago Short Film Festival for his leading role in the short film Una Mujer Cualquiera. In 2025, he became the first dubbing actor to receive a special recognition award for voice acting at the Caleuche Awards in Chile.
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