Israel Elejalde

Israel Elejalde (born 1973) is a Spanish actor as well as a theatre director. Primarily a stage actor with television and film incursions, he had a breakthrough film performance with his role in the 2014 film Magical Girl, which earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor.

Israel Elejalde
(August 2017)
Born	December 10th 1973 Madrid, Spain
Occupations	Actor theatre director

Biography

Born in 1973 in Villaverde, Madrid, Elejalde's stage debut took place at the Juan de Villanueva High School in Orcasitas.^[1] He earned a licentiate degree in Political Science while training as an actor at William Layton's lab.^[1] He further trained at the Teatro de La Abadía [es] under José Luis Gómez and studied stage direction at the RESAD.^[2][1]

Some of his most important stage credits include those in Veraneantes, La función por hacer, and Misántropo.^[2] Primarily an actor, he also writes and directs.^[3] He was in a relationship with actress Bárbara Lennie, along with whom he performed in Magical Girl and different stage plays.^[4][2][5][6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	Gente en sitios (People in Places)			[2]
2014	Magical Girl	Alfredo		[4]
2014	El gran salto adelante	Andrés		[7]
2015	Sicarivs: La noche y el silencio	Néstor		[8]
2016	El hombre de las mil caras (Smoke & Mirrors)	González		[9]
2017	Plan de fuga (Getaway Plan)			[10]
2021	Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas)	Arturo Buendía		[11]
2022	Edén	Victor		[12]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006–10	Cuéntame cómo pasó	Raúl		[13]
2009	Águila Roja	Capitán Rodrigo	Recurring	[13]
2010–11	Amar en tiempos revueltos	Matías Salazar	Main. Introduced in Season 6	[14]
2015	Carlos, rey emperador	Juan Padilla	Recurring. 6 episodes	[13]
2016	Bajo sospecha	Gorka Montero	Main. Introduced in Season 2	[15]
2017–18	Traición	Víctor Ayala	Main	[16]
2019	45 revoluciones (45rpm)	Pedro Zabala	Main. Leading antagonist throughout the series	[17]
2020	Veneno	Pepe Navarro	Recurring. Real-life Pepe Navarro performs a cameo as security guard asking Elejalde to leave	[18]
2021	Ana Tramel. El juego (ANA. all in)	Teniente Moncada	Main	[19]
2023	Las noches de Tefía (Nights in Tefía)	Don Anselmo		[20]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2004	15th Critical Eye Awards	Theatre Award		Won	[21]
2012	15th Max Awards	Best Leading Actor	Veraneantes	Nominated	[6]
2015	29th Goya Awards	Best New Actor	Magical Girl	Nominated	[22]

References

1. Aguilar, Andrea (22 August 2014). "En constante movimiento". Babelia (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
2. "Israel Elejalde: "Ambiciono poder seguir eligiendo lo que quiero hacer". Fotogramas (in Spanish). 30 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
3. Vila, José-Miguel (17 January 2018). "Israel Elejalde: "Broadway está lleno de enormes mierdas"". Diario Crítico.
4. Iglesias, Eulàlia (17 October 2014). "La maldición de los deseos cumplidos". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
5. López Palacios, Íñigo (13 December 2017). "Bárbara Lennie: "Estoy seca, no puedo más"". Icon (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
6. TorresIsrael Elejalde: “Tu dolor es lo que finalmente te hace artista”, Rosana (15 February 2021). "Los premios Max apuestan por el rigor del nuevo teatro". El País.
7. Rivera, Alfonso (5 March 2015). "El gran salto adelante: España, un país junto al abismo". Cineuropa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
8. "'Sicarivs: la noche y el silencio'". Aisge (in Spanish). 13 May 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
9. Sánchez Llobera, Francesc (2016). "Paesa: El hombre de las mil caras". Filmhistoria (in Spanish). 26 (2). Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona: 91. ISSN 2014-668X. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
10. Hernández Luján, Raquel (1 May 2017). "Plan de fuga – Crítica del thriller criminal de Iñaki Dorronsoro". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
11. Medina, Marta (1 September 2021). "Las 'Madres paralelas' de Almodóvar abren Venecia: un drama de sangre y memoria algo desbaratado". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
12. Rivera, Alfonso (14 April 2022). "Estefanía Cortés debuta con Edén, "amadrinada" por Marta Nieto". Cineuropa.
13. "El nuevo 'Chico Almodóvar' Las 'relaciones 'paralelas' de Israel Elejalde: De Penélope Cruz a Maribel Verdú". rtve (in Spanish). 5 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
14. "Revolución en "Amar en tiempos revueltos" con 16 caras nuevas". Vertele! (in Spanish). eldiario.es. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
15. "'Bajo sospecha': Todos los fichajes de la segunda temporada". Fotogramas (in Spanish). 22 October 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
16. Baro, Enrique (20 November 2017). "Quién es quién en 'Traición', el drama familiar de Ana Belén". Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
17. García Higueras, Laura (8 April 2019). "Israel Elejalde ('45 revoluciones'): "En los 60 había gente que intentaba que se respirara de otra manera en España"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
18. Palenzuela, Fernando S. (4 October 2020). "'Veneno' Capítulo 5: El inesperado cameo de Pepe Navarro con guiño nostálgico al fin de una etapa". FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
19. Dios, Marisa de (20 September 2021). "'Ana Tramel. El juego', la serie de TVE-1 que hace reflexionar sobre la ludopatía". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
20. Molina, Berto (19 June 2023). "'Las noches de Tefía': sinopsis de la nueva serie de Atresplayer, estreno, actores..." El Confidencial.
21. Cruz, Juan (13 July 2015). "Israel Elejalde: "Tu dolor es lo que finalmente te hace artista"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
22. Zamora, Andrea (7 February 2015). "'La isla mínima', vencedora de los Premios Goya 2015". SensaCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.