Fav Spanish Actors
by cinenchile | created - 26 Mar 2021 | updated - 11 Jul 2022 | PublicMy fav actors and actresses from Spain
1. Carmen Maura
Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Descendant of the conservative Spanish politician Antonio Maura, Carmen lead an art gallery and appeared in various roles in night- clubs. With Tigres de papel (1977) she had her first successful appearance on the movie screen and thereafter she worked at the theatre, the movies and in TV ...
2. Antonio Banderas
Actor | The Mask of Zorro
Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.
He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...
3. Verónica Forqué
Actress | ¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!!
Verónica Forqué was born on December 1, 1955 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Kika (1993) and Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial (1990). She was married to Manuel Iborra. She died on December 13, 2021 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
4. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
5. Loles León
Actress | Átame!
Loles León was born on August 1, 1950 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and producer, known for Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), Aquí no hay quien viva (2003) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).
6. Fernando Guillén
Actor | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Fernando Guillén was born on November 22, 1932 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Don Juan in Hell (1991) and La saga de los Rius (1976). He was married to Gemma Cuervo. He died on January 17, 2013 in Madrid, ...
7. Juan Echanove
Actor | Madregilda
Juan Echanove was born on April 1, 1961 in Madrid, Spain. He is an actor and director, known for Madregilda (1993), The Flower of My Secret (1995) and Las chicas de hoy en día (1991). He has been married to Cuchita Lluch since May 14, 2015.
8. Juan Luis Galiardo
Actor | El caballero Don Quijote
Juan Luis Galiardo was born on March 2, 1940 in San Roque, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor and producer, known for El caballero Don Quijote (2002), Familia (1996) and El vuelo de la paloma (1989). He was married to María Elías and Juana Prieto. He died on June 22, 2012 in Madrid, Madrid, ...
9. Imanol Arias
Actor | Cuéntame cómo pasó
Imanol Arias began his career with a traveling theatre group in Spain performing in Euskadi (Basque Country). After minor roles on stage, he travels to Cuba to shoot Cecilia (1982) directed by Humberto Solás. In 1987 he won the Concha de Plata of the San Sebastian Film Festival for the biography of ...
10. Enrique San Francisco
Actor | Orquesta Club Virginia
Enrique San Francisco was born on March 10, 1955 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Orquesta Club Virginia (1992), Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001) and El asesino de la calle Pradillo (1996). He died on March 1, 2021 in Madrid, Spain.
11. Antonio Ferrandis
Actor | Verano azul
Antonio Ferrandis was born on February 28, 1921 in Paterna, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. He was an actor, known for Verano azul (1981), Tiempo y hora (1965) and ¿... Y el prójimo? (1974). He died on October 16, 2000 in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain.
12. José Sacristán
Actor | La colmena
José Sacristán was born on September 27, 1937 in Chinchón, Madrid, Spain. He is an actor and director, known for La colmena (1982), Madrid, 1987 (2011) and El diputado (1978).
13. Sancho Gracia
Actor | El crimen del padre Amaro
Sancho Gracia was born on September 27, 1936 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and producer, known for The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), Curro Jiménez (1976) and Eight Hundred Bullets (2002). He was married to Noela Aguirre. He died on August 8, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.
14. Penélope Cruz
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...
15. Manuel Alexandre
Actor | Elsa y Fred
He began the studies of law. But after his participation in the universitary theater he left the university and entered the school of dramatic arts in Madrid. In 1945 he debuted in the proffesional theater, and in the cinema in 1947.
16. Santiago Segura
Actor | Torrente: El brazo tonto de la ley
Born in Madrid, Santiago Segura started his career by making his first short movie at the age of fourteen. After studying Arts in Madrid, he finally decided to become a filmmaker. His first short film Relatos de la medianoche (1989) was made with a budget of only 7.000 pts. (about 60 dollars).
After...
17. Luis García Berlanga
Writer | El verdugo
Berlanga commenced his studies in Valencia in1928, although in 1929 his family sent him and his brother Fernando (due to a lung disease) to the Beau-soleil hospital school in Switzerland. In 1930, he returned to the San José School in Valencia where he stayed until 1931, the year in which the ...
18. Fernando Rey
Actor | Tristana
Fernando Rey, the great Spanish movie actor primarily known in the United States for his role as "Frog One" in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel, was born Fernando Casado D'Arambillet on September 20 1917, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, the son of Colonel Casado Veiga. Originally, the young...
19. Tito Valverde
Actor | El comisario
Tito Valverde was born on April 26, 1951 in Ávila, Ávila, Castilla y León, Spain. He is an actor, known for El comisario (1999), Todos los hombres sois iguales (1996) and Sombras en una batalla (1993). He is married to María Jesús Sirvent.
20. Rossy de Palma
Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Rossy De Palma was born September 16, 1964. She was discovered in 1986 by Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer Pedro Almodóvar at a café in Madrid. She appeared in several of his films: Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)...
21. Kiti Mánver
Actress | Los abrazos rotos
Kiti Mánver was born on May 11, 1953 in Antequera, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Broken Embraces (2009), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and El inconveniente (2020).
22. Chus Lampreave
Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Chus Lampreave was born on December 11, 1930 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Volver (2006) and Broken Embraces (2009). She was married to Eusebio Moreno de los Ríos. She died on April 4, 2016 in Almería, Almería, ...
23. Guillermo Montesinos
Actor | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Guillermo Montesinos was born on January 10, 1948 in Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. He is an actor, known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Blood and Sand (1989) and Sé infiel y no mires con quién (1985).
24. Francisco Rabal
Actor | Átame!
Francisco Rabal -- Paco to everyone -- was born in the mining camp where his father worked. His mother owned a small mill. At the age of six, with the Civil War breaking out, the family emigrated to Madrid and he started working as a street salesman and later in a chocolate factory, which later led...
25. Lina Morgan
Actress | Hostal Royal Manzanares
Lina Morgan was born on March 20, 1936 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Hostal Royal Manzanares (1996), Hermana, pero ¿qué has hecho? (1995) and Compuesta y sin novio (1994). She died on August 19, 2015 in Madrid, Spain.
26. Antonio Ozores
Actor | Los caraduros
Antonio Ozores was born on August 24, 1928 in Burjassot, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for Los caraduros (1983), Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982) and The Crazy Story of the Three Musketeers (1983). He was married to Elisa ...
27. Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
Writer | Alas y garras
Born in the small village of Poza de la Sal, in the Castilian province of Burgos, on the 14th March 1928. He grew up in the midst of the wonders of nature and the Spanish Civil war, and then studied medicine at the university of Valladolid where he graduated as a specialist in dentistry. He became ...
28. Raphael
Soundtrack | Balada triste de trompeta
Raphael was born on May 5, 1943 in Linares, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain. He is an actor and director, known for The Last Circus (2010), My Big Night (2015) and The Three Wise Kings vs. Santa (2022). He has been married to Natalia Figueroa since July 14, 1972. They have three children.
29. Neus Asensi
Actress | La niña de tus ojos
Neus Asensi was born on August 4, 1965 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Girl of Your Dreams (1998), Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law (1998) and Angélica (2014).
30. Alfredo Landa
Actor | El crack
He abandoned his studies of law for the universitary theater. His debut in cinema was in 1962. During the 60's and 70's he participates mainly in not very good comedies. But in the 80's he has revealed as one of the best spanish actors with films like The Holy Innocents (1984) or The Enchanted ...
31. Jordi Mollà
Actor | Riddick
One of Spain's best-recognized artistic personalities, Jordi Mollà is an actor, director, painter and a writer.
Jordi Mollà Perales was born in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Jordi was trained as an actor at the Barcelona Institute of Theatre and he also studied in Italy, ...
32. Luis Ciges
Actor | Así en el cielo como en la tierra
Luis Ciges was born on May 10, 1921 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Así en el cielo como en la tierra (1995), Aquel ritmillo (1994) and Labyrinth of Passion (1982). He died on December 11, 2002 in Clínica San Camilo, Madrid, Spain.
33. Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Actor | Quantum of Solace
Fernando Guillén Cuervo was born on March 11, 1963 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is an actor and writer, known for Quantum of Solace (2008), Bulgarian Lovers (2003) and Cinco minutos para medianoche (2010). He was previously married to Ana Milán and Elena González.
34. Joselito
Actor | Aventuras de Joselito y Pulgarcito
"The Little Nightingale", as he was widely known in Spain when he became a widely successful child star, had a very troubled childhood that led to an even more troubled life as an adult. José Jiménez Fernández was born in Beas de Segura (Jaén, Andalucía, Spain), on February 11, 1943, although some ...
35. Rafaela Aparicio
Actress | Ana y los lobos
Rafaela Aparicio was born in 1906, the daughter of a merchant ship pilot. She began her career on stage in 1931 at age 23 in the play "El conflicto de Mercedes" after having worked for a few years as a teacher. She is a symbol for the Andalusian woman, smart and happy. With El mar y el tiempo (1989)...
36. José Sazatornil
Actor | Espérame en el cielo
José Sazatornil was born on August 13, 1925 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Espérame en el cielo (1988), Todos a la cárcel (1993) and Tot un senyor (1989). He was married to Carmen. He died on July 23, 2015 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
37. Juan Ribó
Actor | El vicio y la virtud
Juan Ribó was born on August 1, 1952. He is an actor, known for El vicio y la virtud (1975), U.C.O. (2008) and Curro Jiménez (1976). He was previously married to Cristina López.
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