Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames (born 12 March 1980) is a Mexican actor.
Early life
Bethke was born on 12 March 1980 in Nairobi, Kenya,[1] as Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames.[1] In the Kalenjin language "Arap Bethke" means "Bethke's son."[1] His father, Claus Bethke is German and his mother, Patricia Galdames is Chilean.[1] He lived in Nairobi until he was 5 years old.[1] His father worked at the United Nations, so this caused them to move from one country to another.[1] At a very young age, he arrived in Mexico where he lived all his childhood and adolescence.[1] He attended high school at Peterson College.[1] and later studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he graduated with a degree in communication.[1] He has two brothers and a sister, who was born in Washington, United States, and a brother who was born in Ecuador named Beto Bethke.[1] Bethke speaks four languages: Spanish, English, Italian and French.[1] Due to his upbringing, Bethke has called himself a "Mexikenian", due to his Kenyan birth and Mexican nationality.[1]
