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Eduard Fernández Serrano (born 25 August 1964) is a Spanish screen and stage actor from Catalonia. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Goya Awards and four Gaudí Awards.
Eduard Fernández | |
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Born | Eduardo Fernández Serrano 25 August 1964 Barcelona, Spain |
Other names | Eduard Fernandez |
Education | Institut del Teatre |
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Relatives | Greta Fernández (daughter) |
Eduard Fernández was born in Barcelona on 25 August 1964.[1][2] He trained as a mime artist at the Barcelona's Institut del Teatre,[1] and did street performances as such.[2] He had a 25-year relationship with writer Esmeralda Berbel , with whom he had one daughter, Greta, who is also an actress.[3][2]
Following a theatre (he was a member of Els Joglars ) and television career, he made his feature film debut at age 30, in 1994 film Souvenir.[4] His breakthrough film role in 1999 thriller Washington Wolves earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor.[4][5]
His portrayal of Santos Vella, a contemporary Mephistopheles,[6] in Fausto 5.0 (2001) earned him the Goya Award for Best Actor.[7]
Fernández starred in Alberto Rodríguez's political thriller Smoke & Mirrors (2016) as corrupt spy/fixer Francisco Paesa, clinching the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[8][9]
In 2019, he portrayed the founder of the Spanish Legion, one-eyed and one-armed Millán Astray, in While at War, a drama film set in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War focused on the plight of philosopher Miguel de Unamuno.[10][11] For his performance in the film, he won a Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor.[10] He also starred in Belén Funes' social drama A Thief's Daughter in tandem with his daughter Greta.[12]
In 2021, Fernández featured in Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea, in which he portrayed Open Arms founder Òscar Camps, the protagonist of the film.[13]
Fernández featured in 2022 psychological thriller God's Crooked Lines (2022), portraying psychiatric hospital director Samuel Alvar, the nemesis of lead character Alice Gould.[14][15] In an interview to Vanity Fair, Fernández stated that he believed his character to be "a bit misogynistic in addition to having a big ego".[16]
In 2024, Fernández portrayed two iconic roles in film: Manolo Vital in The 47 and Enric Marco in Marco, the Invented Truth, the former a bus driver of immigrant background who hijacked a Barcelona bus line in 1978 in order to stand for his neighbors' rights and the latter an impostor who falsely pretended to be a survivor of the Flossenburg concentration camp.[17][18] For the aforementioned performances, he respectively earned a Gaudí and a Goya Award nomination for Best Leading Actor. Also in 2024, he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts.[19]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1994 | Souvenir | Feature film debut | [4] | |
1999 | Zapping | Ramiro / Ramón | [20] | |
Los lobos de Washington (Washington Wolves) | Miguel | [21] | ||
2000 | El portero (The Goalkeeper) | Nardo | [22] | |
2001 | La voz de su amo (His Master's Voice) | Charli | [23] | |
Son de mar (Sound of the Sea) | Alberto Sierra | [24] | ||
Fausto 5.0 | Santos Vella | [25] | ||
2002 | El embrujo de Shanghai (The Shanghai Spell) | Forcat | [26] | |
Smoking Room | Ramírez | [27] | ||
2003 | The Galíndez File | Jesús Galíndez | [28] | |
En la ciudad (In the City) | Mario | [29] | ||
2004 | Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena (Things That Make Living Worthwhile) | Jorge | [30] | |
2005 | Hormigas en la boca (Ants in the Mouth) | Martín | [31] | |
Obaba | Lucas | [32] | ||
El método (The Method) | Fernando | [33] | ||
2006 | Alatriste | Sebastián Copons | [34] | |
Ficción (Fiction) | Álex | [35] | ||
2008 | 3 días (Before the Fall) | Lucio | [36] | |
Che | Ciro Algarañaz | [37] | ||
El vestido | Fernando | [38] | ||
La noche que dejó de llover | [39] | |||
2009 | Amores locos (Mad Love) | Enrique | [40] | |
Tres dies amb la família (Three Days With the Family) | Josep Maria | [41] | ||
Flores negras | Peter | [42] | ||
Luna caliente | Juan | [43] | ||
2010 | Biutiful | Tito | [44] | |
Pa negre (Black Bread) | Mestre ('teacher') | [45] | ||
La mosquitera (The Mosquito Net) | Miquel | [46] | ||
2011 | La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In) | Fulgencio | [47] | |
2012 | The Pelayos (Winning Streak) | La Bestia | [48] | |
Due uomini, quattro donne e una mucca depressa | Emilio | [49] | ||
Miel de naranjas (Orange Honey) | Vicente | [50] | ||
Una pistola en cada mano (A Gun in Each Hand) | E. | [51] | ||
2013 | Todas las mujeres (All the Women) | Nacho | [52] | |
Gente en sitios (People in Places) | [53] | |||
2014 | Marsella (Marseille) | Jesús | [54] | |
El Niño | Sergio | [55] | ||
Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades (Dying Beyond Their Means) | [56] | |||
Los ausentes | [57] | |||
2015 | Lejos del mar (Far from the Sea) | Santi | [58] | |
Felices 140 (Happy 140) | Ramón | [59] | ||
Truman | Luis | [60] | ||
2016 | La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre (The Night My Mother Killed My Father) | Ángel | [61] | |
El hombre de las mil caras (Smoke & Mirrors) | Francisco Paesa | [62] | ||
1898, los últimos de Filipinas (1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines) | Capitán Enrique de las Morenas | [63] | ||
2017 | Perfectos desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) | Alfonso | [64] | |
2018 | Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows) | Fernando | [65] | |
2019 | Mientras dure la guerra (While at War) | Millán-Astray | [66] | |
La hija de un ladrón (A Thief's Daughter) | Manuel | [67] | ||
2021 | Mediterráneo (Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea) | Oscar | [68] | |
2022 | Los renglones torcidos de Dios (God's Crooked Lines) | Samuel Alvar | [69] | |
2024 |
Marco, la verdad inventada (Marco, the Invented Truth) | Enric Marco | [70] | |
El 47 (The 47) | Manolo Vital | [71] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2010 | La princesa de Éboli | Felipe II | TV movie aired as 2-part miniseries | [72] |
2011 | 14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys | Francesc Cambó | TV movie | [73] |
2014 | Descalzo sobre la tierra roja | Pedro Casaldáliga | Miniseries | [74] |
2017 | La zona | Héctor Uría | ||
2020–23 | 30 monedas (30 Coins) | Padre Vergara | [76] | |
2024 | Mano de hierro (Iron Reign) | Joaquín Manchado |
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