All All. Sign In. Moulin Rouge Premiere. Tuesday December 24, Wilshire Theatre. List activity. Established as a Spanish colonial city in , San Juan is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, following Santo Domingo established in and Panama City established in Ferrer's father was Rafael Ferrer, a lawyer and author who was born and raised in San Juan. Ferrer's paternal grandfather was Dr.
As a school student, Ferrer was educated abroad at the Institut Le Rosey, a prestigious boarding school located in Rolle, Switzerland. In , Ferrer transferred to Columbia University, where he studied Romance languages. In , while still a college student, Ferrer made his theatrical debut in Long Island-based theatre. In , he was hired as the stage manager at the Suffern Country Playhouse. This stage production of the play ran for 69 performances, with Ferrer appearing in all of them.
Finklehoffe The play had a ran of performances from to Among his subsequent theatrical appearances, the most successful were staged productions of Mamba's Daughters , which ran for performances, and "Charley's Aunt" , which ran for performances.
His role in "Charley's Aunt" required him to perform in drag, for the first time in his career. Ferrer had one of the greatest theatrical successes of his career when playing the villainous Iago in a Broadway production of "Othello' by William Shakespeare. The production had a ran of performances, lasting from to Ferrer played his most famous role as the historical figure of Cyrano de Bergerac in the Broadway season.
Ferrer made his film debut in the Technicolor epic "Joan of Arc" The Award was instead won by rival actor Walter Huston Ferrer's success as a film actor, helped him gain more film roles in Hollywood-produced films. He played the "smooth-talking hypnotist David Korvo" in the film noir "Whirlpool" , and dictator Raoul Farrago in the film noir "Crisis". He had a career highlight with a film adaptation of the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", where he played the title role. For this role, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
