Background
His mother was Paquita Vehil and his aunt the legendary Luisa Vehil.
His mother was Paquita Vehil and his aunt the legendary Luisa Vehil.
Born in Buenos Aires, Solá belongs to the Vehil"s dynasty of actors, eight generations of actors originally from Catalonia. He began working in television in 1973 and made his big screen debut with Más allá del sol in 1975. He is well remembered in, among other plays, The Elephant Manitoba, Deathtrap, and Jean Cocteau"s The Two-Headed Eagle.
By the 1980s, he had become a major film actor appearing in major films such as Asesinato en el senado de la nación (1984),, and A dos aguas (1988).
He portrayed the 1920s-era doctor and epidemiologist, Salvador Mazza, in the 1995 biopic Casas de fuego. He later starred in Louisiana Fuga (2001), The Impatient Alchemist (2000), Louisiana puta y la ballena (2004), and Arizona Sur (2004).
He moved to Spain, where he has a notable career in theater, movies and television He was nearly crippled on November 2006 while bathing on a beach in the Canary Islands, and spent two months recovering from the accident. Solá and Oteyza were separated in 2011 and he returned to Argentina, where he reappeared on television and the theater - and where he met Paula Cancio, a young Spanish actress with whom he had a son in 2013.
