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Toni Cantó
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| Member of the Corts Valencianes | |
| In office 16 May 2019 – 15 March 2021 |
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| Constituency | Valencia |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 13 January 2016 – 5 March 2019 |
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| Constituency | Valencia |
| In office 13 December 2011 – 7 April 2015 |
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| Constituency | Valencia |
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Antonio Cantó García del Moral
14 January 1965 Valencia, Spain |
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| Children | 3 |
Antonio Cantó García del Moral, born on January 14, 1965, is a Spanish actor. He also used to be a politician. He represented the Valencia area in the Spanish Parliament for several years. He was a spokesperson for the Citizens political party.
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About Toni Cantó
Early Life and Beginnings
Antonio Cantó was born in Valencia, Spain, on January 14, 1965. His father was a doctor. When he was younger, he worked as a model. He studied acting at the Centro Dramático Nacional. In 1986, he started working as a TV presenter for a show called La tarde.
Acting Career Highlights
Toni Cantó's first movie role was in Oficio de muchachos in 1986. He appeared in several films, including Pilar Miró's Your Name Poisons My Dreams (1996). He also acted in Pedro Almodóvar's movie All About My Mother (1999).
During the 1990s, he was in many TV series. Some of these were El destino en sus manos and Querido maestro. He became very well-known in Spain for his role as David Pérez in the TV show 7 vidas.
In December 2020, Toni Cantó took part in the first season of Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta. He finished in third place on the show.
After his political career, Cantó became the creative director at a TV channel called 7NN. He started this job on September 8, 2022. The channel stopped broadcasting on March 31, 2023, because it did not have enough money to keep running.
Time in Politics
Toni Cantó first joined the Ciudadanos party in 2006. He ran as a candidate in local elections in 2007 for a group called Vecinos por Torrelodones. Later, in 2008, he joined another party, Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD).
In 2011, he led the UPyD party list for Valencia in the national election. He won a seat in the Spanish Parliament. In 2014, he was chosen to be UPyD's candidate for the leader of the Valencian government.
He left his seat in Parliament in April 2015. He also decided not to run for the Valencian regional elections. He said he would think about staying with UPyD after their party meeting in June 2015.
Toni Cantó had often disagreed with the UPyD party's leadership. After the party did not do well in elections, the leader, Rosa Díez, resigned. Cantó supported Irene Lozano in the new leadership election in July 2015, but she lost.
A few days later, Cantó announced he would become an independent politician. He then joined the Citizens party. He was chosen as the second candidate on their list for the 2015 national election. He was elected to Parliament again.
In 2019, he ran as the Citizens party's candidate for the Valencian regional election. He was elected to the Corts Valencianes, which is the regional parliament. He became the leader of his party's group there. Some of his speeches became very popular online.
In March 2021, Cantó announced he was leaving the Citizens party and his seat in the Valencian Parliament. Nine days later, on March 24, 2021, the People's Party announced he would be on their list for the Madrid regional election. However, there were questions about whether he could run because he was registered to vote in Valencia, not Madrid. In April 2021, a court ruled that he could not be on the People's Party list for Madrid.
In 2021, Toni Cantó joined ISSEP, an educational center in Madrid. He started teaching speaking skills there.
See also
In Spanish: Toni Cantó para niños
