About Speaker
Born in Argentina in 1962, Gabriel Lerman has been interviewing movie stars for the last 30 years. He is the Los Angeles correspondent for many outlets from Spain and Latin America, including the daily La Vanguardia from Barcelona, the magazines Dirigido Por and Ethic from Spain, Estilo from Honduras and Acción from Argentina. He also interviews regularly directors and actors from Latin America and Spain for the website GoldenGlobes.com. From 1991 until 2008 he was the Entertainment Editor of the weekiies Mundo LA and La Guia from Los Angeles. During many years he was the correspondent in this city for many important newspapers like La Nacion, Pagina 12 and La Capital from Argentina, El Pais from Uruguay, Ultimas Noticias and La Epoca from Chile, El Nuevo Herald from Miami and Hoy from New York. He's the only Argentine voting the Golden Globes with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, where he is not serving as a member of the Board of Directors. He was nominated in 1998 by the Publicist Guild of America to the International Media Award and received twelve awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications. Prior to moving to the United States in 1989, Lerman contributed in Argentina to the dailies Clarín and Sur. In Argentina, Lerman published two books of interviews and a book for children. His unpublished novel, Los habitantes del espejo, was awarded a second prize by Adolfo Bioy Casares in the First Bienal de Arte Joven in 1989. Lerman lives in Los Angeles with his wife and his younger son.