Asier Etxeandia

Asier Gómez Etxeandia (Bilbao, 27 June 1975) is a Spanish actor, whose career comprises television, theatre and cinema.

Biography

Asier Etxeandia

Asier Etxeandia took his first acting course in a Biscayan school, from where he only saves good memory of two teachers, Eguzki Zubia and Juan Carlos Garaizabal.^[1]

Asier Etxeandia left his native Basque Country and moved to Madrid at twenty years of age. In Madrid he first worked a sex shop assistant while he attended acting courses. He debuted on TV in 1995 as a contestant in the game show Uno para todas (Telecinco), presented by Goyo González. The production company Globomedia hired him for the first season of Un Paso Adelante, where he played Beni, a gay student that enrolled in an Performing Arts school to become an actor. Etxeandia left the series because he feared being typecast. In spite of this, he recognises that this role opened him doors and got him first friends in the business, among them actress Natalia Millán.^[2]

Natalia Millán thought of him for the adaptation of musical play Cabaret she was going to star in, offering him the role of Master of Ceremonies. In this production he also worked with Manuel Flag and Emilio Alonso León.

In film he landed a role in Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, a small role as a blind waiter that eventually was not included in the final cut, but the scene was included as an additional content in the DVD.

Filmography

Television

• Dirty dishes, character episódico (2000)
• A step forward, as Benito "Beni" López (2002)
• Explain me as it happened, as Mateo (2004)
• The commissioner, as Óscar; an episode: Secret to voices (2005)
• The Serrano, as Tomás Cruz; an episode: I azuzo (2005)
• Personal reasons, as David (2006)
• Letters to Sorolla, distribution. TV movie (2006)
• Countdown, as Víctor; an episode: Street of Orpheus and Eurídice, 2. 21:38 hours (2008)
• Question of sex, as Yago (2008)
• Heirs, as Gorka (2008-2009)
• The men of Paco, like Blackman (2009-2010)
• Flight IL 8714, as Emilio. Miniseries (2010)
• The escape, as Miguel Reverte (2012)
• Storm, as Carlos. Miniseries (2013)
• Love is for ever, as Rubén Tudela (2013)
• Velvet, as Raúl of Riva (2014-?)

Feature films

• The violet look, as Sergio. Dir. Nacho Pérez of the Peace and Jesús Ruiz (2004)
• The next Orient, as Abel. Dir. Fernando Colomo (2006)
• Alone coffee or with them, as Javi. Dir. Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo (2006)
• The 13 roses, as Enrique. Dir. Emilio Martínez Lázaro (2007)
• 7 minutes, as Vicente. Dir. Daniela Fejerman (2008)
• Lies and Fat, as Christ. Dir. Alfonso Albacete (2008)
• King Conqueror, as Pascual Muñoz. Dir. José Antonio Escrivá, Félix Miguel and Pepón Sigler (2009)
• The captain thunder and the Saint Grial, as Hassan. Dir. Antonio Hernández (2011)
• The Angel of Budapest, like Barrueta. TV movie (2012)
• The no lived days, as Jaime. Dir. Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas (2012)
• Shrews, distribution. Dir. Juanfer Andrés and Esteban Roel (2014)
• Ma ma, distribution. Dir. Julio Medem (2014)
• The girlfriend, like the boyfriend. Dir. Paula Ortiz (2015)
• The open door, as Lupita. Dir. Marina Seresesky (2015)

Short films

• After!, as Koldo. Dir. Oskar Bilbao (1996)
• Give me another end, like a hanged. Dir. Nerea Castro (2000)
• Vertexes, as Mario. Dir. Juanan Martínez (2004)
• Unione European, as Tomás. Dir. Andrés M. Koppel (2007)
• Final, distribution. Dir. Hugo Martín Crooked (2007)
• Together, like a man. Dir. Gigi Romero (2009)
• By always ham, distribution. Dir. Ruth Díaz (2014)

Theatre

• Nightclub (2003-2005)
• The hell (2005)
• The divine comedy, as Dante Alighieri (2005)
• The dream of a night of summer, like Teseo and Oberón. Dir. Tamzin Towshend (2006-2007)
• Baroque, like Valmont (2007)
• The Mondays can expect (2008)
• Hamlet (2009)
• Medea (2009)
• Homer, The Iliada, reading dramatizada. Dir. Andrea D'Odorico (2010)
• The failure (2011)
• The chunga. Dir. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (2013)
• The interpreter (2013)

Discography

• Musical Nightclub, B.S.Or. (2003)
• A ray of light, subject: But the world goes round (2006)
• Play The dream of a night of summer, subjects: Song of Oberón and Tears of Rocío (2007)
• Film The 13 roses, subject: J'attendrai (2007)
• Baroque play, B.S.Or. (2007)
• Play Hamlet, B.S.Or. (2009)
• X1END: Together by the Sahara, subject: Simpathy for the devil, duet with Pastora (2009)
• The transcendental step of the vodevil to the astracanada, subject: Why to me it costs me so much?, duet with Fangoria (2010)
• Play Something of noise does, B.S.Or. (2011)
• Collaboration in the song Third World of the disk The Motionless Trips of Nach (2014)

Prizes and nominations

Prizes Goya

Year	Category	Film	Resulted
2015	Better leading masculine interpretation	The girlfriend	Nominated

Fotogramas Of Silver

Year	Category	Work	Resulted
2014	Better actor of television	Velvet	Nominated
2013	Better actor of theatre	The Interpreter	Winning
2003	Better actor of theatre	Nightclub	Nominated

Union of Actors

Year	Category	Work	Resulted
2015	Better leading actor of cinema	The girlfriend	Nominated
	Better secondary actor of television	Velvet	Nominated
2013	Better leading actor of theatre	The Interpreter	Winning
2011	Better leading actor of theatre	The failure	Winning
2007	Better leading actor of theatre	Baroque	Nominated
2003	Better actor disclosure	Nightclub	Winning

Prizes Max

Year	Category	Play	Resulted
2012	Better leading actor	The failure	Nominated
2009	Better leading actor	Baroque	Nominated
2005	Better leading actor	Hell	Precandidato

Prizes Ercilla

Year	Category	Play	Resulted
2009	Better protagonist of theatre	Baroque	Winning

Spanish film festival of Málaga

Year	Category	Play	Resulted
2009	Prize Renfe to new values of the Spanish cinema	7 minutes	Winning

References

• Interview "to Play to Be" in Pastiche

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