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{{short description|Uruguayan deputy, actor and lawyer (born 1946)}}
{{Other uses|Orrico (disambiguation){{!}}Orrico}}
{{Infobox Uruguayan politician
| name=Jorge Orrico
| image name=
| office=member of the [[Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay]]
| honorific-prefix=[[Lawyer|Dr.]]
| party=[[Broad Front (Uruguay)|Frente Amplio]]
| term_start=March 1, 1995
| term_end= March 1, 2015
| alongside=Danilo Astori
| succeeded=
| birth_date={{birth date and age|1946|10|25|df=y}}
| birth_place=[[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]]
| death_date=
| death_place=
| spouse=Cristina Martinez
| profession=[[Lawyer]]
}}
'''Jorge Omar Orrico Miraldi''' is a [[Uruguay]]an [[Legislator|deputy]], actor and lawyer.

== Biography ==
Jorge Orrico was born 25 October 1946 in [[Montevideo]].

== Acting career ==
Orrico acted in theatre plays in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He also acted in the 2001 Uruguayan movie Estrella del Sur, directed by Luis Nieto.

== Political career ==
Orrico had an early start at the [[Colorado Party (Uruguay)|Colorado Party]], but then quickly moved to the [[Broad Front (Uruguay)|Broad Front]] when it was founded in 1971.
He is one of the founders of [[Uruguay Assembly]], a subdivision of the party that he started in 1994 with [[Danilo Astori]].

In 2012 he was chosen [[List of Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay|President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay]].

== See also ==
*[[Danilo Astori]]
*[[Tabaré Vázquez]]
*[[Broad Front (Uruguay)|Frente Amplio]]
*[[Asamblea Uruguay]]

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050924101830/http://www.asamblea.org.uy/ Asamblea Uruguay]
*[http://www.frenteamplio.org.uy Frente Amplio]
*[http://www.parlamento.gub.uy Uruguayan parliament]

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[[Category:1946 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Uruguayan lawyers]]
[[Category:Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians]]
[[Category:Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay]]
[[Category:Uruguay Assembly politicians]]
[[Category:Uruguayan actor-politicians]]
[[Category:Broad Front (Uruguay) politicians]]


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