Álvaro Escobar Rufatt (born December 16, 1966) is a Chilean actor, television presenter, lawyer, musician, journalist, radio personality and politician.

In 1986, his commitment to the convulsed political events of the time and his desire to contribute to the recovery of democracy advised him to enter the Law School of the University of Chile.

In 1990, he graduated from the school of law and the following year he was approved as a regular student in the theatrical acting career at the academy directed by Fernando González Mardones.

[3] In 1992, while combining his theater studies with the professional practice of Law at the San Antonio Judicial Assistance Corporation, he was called to release the drama area of Televisión Nacional de Chile for his second semester productions under the direction of María Eugenia Rencoret.

In 1998, Álvaro Escobar conducted the coverage of Televisión Nacional de Chile for the concert that the Irish group U2 offered on February 11 at the National Stadium.

In June, he traveled with El Enthusiasm to the Cannes Film Festival and returned to Chile to rejoin the dramatic area of TVN and combine his performance in the television series Aquelarre, his work with Yunke (his musical band), and the host of the Rocket program for Vía X (1997–2000).

Until September 2005, Álvaro Escobar managed to successfully combine his work in the morning programming of Radio Cooperativa (2004–2005), the post-production of the documentary The memory of music, the production of Autopsy for Mega (2004–2005), the realization and conducting the program Trafficking influences for UCV TV (2004–2005); acting work in television series such as Justicia para todos (2003–2004), Tiempo final (2004) or Urgencias (2005); and his performance in plays such as Three versions of life (2004) and Breaking codes, for which he is nominated for the Altazor and APES Awards (2005).

For his part, his quality as a central figure in support of the Enríquez-Ominami candidacy forced Álvaro Escobar to register as a candidate to run as a deputy and strengthen the presidential campaign in the largest district of Chile.