Hugo Avilés was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on May 28, 1962. He lived his first years in the Barrio del Astillero, where he met Ruth Coello who was his neighbor and who would not see after three years that she moved to the north of the city, when they met again in the center of Guayaquil. Both studied architecture in different universities, and Hugo proposed to Ruth to take theater workshops, then they abandoned their university studies and from there they dedicated themselves to acting, setting up scenic projects. 