Juan José Videgain
| Juan José Videgain | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Juan José Videgain Cerezo 30 July 1975 Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Writer, director, actor and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1992-present |
Juan José Videgain (born 30 July 1975) is a Spanish writer, actor and director. Most of Videgain's books have reached cult status thanks to their weird sense of humor in Spain. He is from an old theatrical family in Spain. Salvador Videgain is his grandfather, José María Alvira is his granduncle. He has written narratives, essays, and biographies.
Biography
Juan José Videgain was born in Madrid, Spain in 1975. He worked in the theatre book field from an early age. He had a brief stint in television before finding work as a film actor. His first, little-seen short film focuses on a family forced to live in a basement after a war. In his second short film, he portrayed a man rebel but also a boy who thinks he is Batman a defender of the innocent. He made a third short film The bridge of the life and Nos miran in (2002), a supernatural film of mystery, in Spain.
His book La auténtica vida e historia del teatro (2005) received acclaim from people in Spain as the best book of theatre written in years. Also he was preceded by his first collaboration with Jack Newman in theater (2002). In 2010 he collaborates with him in a chapter of his work as life itself.
Videgain was portrayed a soldier in the film Kingdom of Heaven, his first movie in English. The film was released in Spain in January 2004 but did not prove as great a success as hoped. The film was explicit in it´s portrayal of violence in medieval Jerusalem and was considered controversial by some Catholics and Muslims, so it passed cuts. The actor worked on the film only in Spain.
He collaborated with the problems of people with leukodystrophy in Spain. He has worked beneficially for years for homeless children or leukodystrophy problems so it has been awarded the 2011 ELA Prize.
Since the beginning of the decade 2010, he has started to direct and produce various audiovisual and documentary work without neglecting his role as writer.
Books
He wrote works of theatre in the 2000s and during the first part of the first decade of the century he devoted himself to writing for the theater. In the second part of the decade he wrote books about famous artists cultural issue some known to him and made his foray into the world of the story.
- Las mocedades de España (2003) theatre.
- Las cartas sobre la mesa (2005)theatre.
- La auténtica vida e historia del teatro (2005) ISBN 978-84-7828-135-0
- Una vida en la sombra (2006) theatre.
- Así se vive en Hollywood (2007) ISBN 978-84-7828-147-3
- Crueldades y otros menesteres (2007) theatre.
- Como la vida misma (2010) ISBN 978-84-614-3409-1
- Un mundo diferente (2014) ISBN 978-15-025-6523-5
- Así se vive en Hollywood II (2015) ISBN 978-1-5168-4426-5
Acting
As a secondary actor figuration and work in the 1990s and the early years of this century. Most of his works were for the theater, except for a pair of shorts and stakes in some movies. Also participated in a music video.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Productor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Nos miran | Norberto López Amado | César Benítez |
| 2003 | The Bridge of the life | - | |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Ridley Scott | 20th Century Fox |
| 2013 | 114 videoclip | Susana Chueca | IndividuoZero |
| 2014 | ¡Qué pena de vida! | Juan José Videgain | Producciones Videgain |
| 2014 | Relaciones | R. Jiménez | Producciones Videgain |
| 2014 | Equipos | R. Jiménez | Producciones Videgain |
| 2015 | El Psicólogo | Juan José Videgain | Producciones Videgain |