Actor and former Culture Minister Salvador del Solar sworn as the new prime minister of Peru Monday March 11,2019

Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra has sworn in actor and former Culture Minister Salvador del Solar (48)as his new prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at shoring up his slipping approval ratings.

The move on Monday March 11,2019 comes days after former Prime Minister Cesar Villanueva stepped down amid calls for a government shakeup. 

Vizcarra chose to keep Finance Minister Carlos Oliva and Energy and Mines Minister Francisco Ismodes in their posts but changed eight other ministers, including the production and agriculture ministers. 

Del Solar  has degrees in law and international relations but is best known for his roles in Spanish-language films and television series, including a turn as a priest in Netflix's drugs drama, Narcos.

He served as Peru's culture minister for about a year under former-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who resigned in March 2018 amid a region-wide corruption scandal