Hovik Keuchkerian
Wednesday, July 1, 2020Hovik Keuchkerian (born 14 November 1972) is a Lebanese-Armenian-born Spanish actor best known for the role of Bogotá in Money Heist / La Casa de Papel.
He is an ethnic Armenian. Born in Beirut (Libano), his family moved to Madrid (Spain) when he was three years old. His father was Armenian and his mother is Spanish (from Navarra). He became a boxer and was twice Spanish Heavy Weight Champion. After quitting boxing he started a new career as stand-up comedian and writer (he has published four books, the last of them entitled Resiliente.
In his career Keuchkerian has won three awards out of a total of 5 nominations obtained.
Hovik Keuchkerian appears on the television series MONEY HEIST on Netflix. The series centers around a group of nine robbers who attempt to pull off the greatest heist of all time.
Hovik as Bogotá
Bogotá is a character in the Netflix series Money Heist series, appearing as a main character in season 3 and season 4. He was part of the crew who carried out the robbery at the Bank of Spain.
Not much is known about Bogotá's early life. He has 7 children all over the world. In season 4, he fell in love with Nairobi.
Bogotá is a world-class welder and has a vital role in the heist at the Bank of Spain. He is the main member in charge alongside Nairobi to lead the group that is melting the gold bricks in the national reserve into grains of gold at the Bank of Spain. It is through his talents of welding that the team is able to pull-off the successful extraction of the gold from the flooded vault. His welding and heroic efforts (placing a bomb underwater while being present in the enclosed vault, welding underwater without an oxygen tank) allow the heist to move forward as planned initially.