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Antonio de la Torre (actor)

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de la Torre and the second or maternal family name is Martín.
Antonio de la Torre
At the 32nd Goya Awards in 2018
Born
Antonio de la Torre Martín

(1968-01-18) 18 January 1968 (age 56)
Málaga, Spain
Occupations
  • Actor
  • journalist

Antonio de la Torre Martín (born 18 January 1968) is a Spanish actor and journalist.

De la Torre is the actor with most nominations overall to the Goya Awards.[1] He won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for Dark Blue Almost Black in 2007;[2] whereas, he earned the Goya Award for Best Actor for The Realm in 2019.[3] He has starred in many films directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, with whom he collaborated for the first time in the short film Profilaxis (2003).[2]

Early life and education

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Antonio de la Torre Martín was born on 18 January 1968 in Málaga.[4][5] He studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid, becoming a close friend of Alberto San Juan, then his classmate at the Complutense's Faculty of Information Sciences.[6][7] Sometime before earning his licentiate degree, he landed a job at Andalusian broadcaster Canal Sur,[6] where he worked as a sports journalist.[8] In order to reconcile his employment in Seville with his acting training under Cristina Rota and attendance to casting calls, he went back and forth from Seville to Madrid on train.[6][9]

Career beginnings

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He started his acting career in television series such as Lleno, por favor [es] or Los ladrones van a la oficina.[10] He landed afterwards minor film roles in The Worst Years of Our Lives (1994, his feature film debut),[8] You Shall Die in Chafarinas (1995), The Day of the Beast (1995), Hi, Are You Alone? (1995), and Not Love, Just Frenzy (1996).[10] He has since developed a long career in cinema.[11]

In 2002, he featured in Poniente, a drama film directed by Chus Gutiérrez exploring the plight of irregular immigrants working in greenhouses in Southern Spain, playing a Spanish racist foreman.[12]

Breakthrough

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2006 was a key year for de la Torre.[13] He appeared in a small role in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006), portraying the partner of Penélope Cruz's character Raimunda, killed after attempting to rape Raimunda's daughter Paula (played by Yohana Cobo).[14] De la Torre also featured in Dark Blue Almost Black (2006), directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, who reportedly wrote specifically de la Torre's role for him, intending to showcase his acting talent.[15] In the film, he portrayed Antonio, the infertile imprisoned brother of the protagonist (Quim Gutiérrez), who convinces the latter to get his partner Paula (Marta Etura) pregnant.[16][17] His performance earned him a Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor, consolidated his career and gained him prestige as an actor.[15] As a result, he left his part-time job as a journalist and fully dedicated to acting since 2007,[18] having applied for a leave of absence from a permanent position in Canal Sur that he had just landed in June 2007.[19]

Established career

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De la Torre collaborated again with Sánchez Arévalo in Fat People (2009), putting on 33 kg to portray a slimming pill salesman.[20] De la Torre's performance as Sergio, a silly clown and abusive partner, in Álex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus (2010) earned him his third Goya Award nomination.[21][22]

He played an expeditious, forceful and arrogant police agent in Alberto Rodríguez's Seville-set action thriller Unit 7 (2012).[23]

Antonio de la Torre and Rodrigo Sorogoyen in 2019

He starred as an anthropophagous tailor in Manuel Martín Cuenca's Cannibal (2013).[24]

Another collaboration with Alberto Rodríguez, a brief supporting performance as the father of missing girls in crime thriller Marshland (2014), clinched him an additional Goya Award nomination.[25]

He starred alongside Luis Callejo in The Fury of a Patient Man (2016), playing a quiet, well-groomed man patiently waiting to enact vengeance.[26][27] Also in 2016, he starred alongside Roberto Álamo in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's crime thriller May God Save Us playing the role of a lonely and stuttering police inspector tracking down a rapist and killer of elderly women in Madrid.[28][29] With The Realm (2018), a new collaboration with Sorogoyen, de la Torre won his first Goya Award for Best Leading Performance, playing Manuel López-Vidal, a well-positioned regional politician whose life crumbles upon the unravelling of a corruption case.[30] He also landed a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the same ceremony for his role as Pepe Mujica in A Twelve-Year Night.[31] In order to prepare for the latter role, involving Mujica's long time in captivity under the civic-military dictatorship, de la Torre lost 15 kg and worked on improving his Uruguayan accent.[32]

For his portrayal of a man who evades the Francoist repression for 33 years hiding in his house in The Endless Trench (2019), he earned a new Goya Award for Best Actor nomination.[33][34]

De la Torre co-hosted the 37th Goya Awards gala along with Clara Lago in February 2023.[35] His supporting performance in The Movie Teller (2023), portraying a hard-working and humble Chilean man disabled in an accident, demanded de la Torre to work on his Chilean accent.[36][37] In 2024, he appeared as a maquis guerrilla figher in black comedy film We Treat Women Too Well,[38] and in a bit part as a snooty posh parent in Father There Is Only One 4.[39] He also lost 30 kg to play the role of a terminally ill patient in Pilar Palomero's Glimmers.[40]

Also in 2024, de la Torre shot the thriller film Los Tigres, resuming collaboration with Alberto Rodríguez with a leading role as an industrial diver.[41] Likewise, he landed the titular role of serial killer Juan Díaz de Garayo, aka Sacamantecas, in David Pérez Sañudo's Sacamantecas, set in late 19th-century Vitoria-Gasteiz.[42]

Filmography

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Main article: Antonio de la Torre filmography

Views

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A vocal supporter of Yolanda Díaz's political project, de la Torre closed the electoral list of Sumar in the province of Málaga for the 2023 Spanish general election.[43]

Accolades

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De la Torre holding his Goya Award for Best Leading Actor for his performance in The Realm during the 33rd Goya Awards in 2019.
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2007 21st Goya Awards Best Supporting Actor Dark Blue Almost Black Won [44]
16th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role Won [45]
2008 17th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Minor Role Mataharis Nominated [46][47]
2010 24th Goya Awards Best Actor Fat People Nominated [48]
2011 25th Goya Awards Best Actor The Last Circus Nominated [49]
20th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Minor Role Lope: The Outlaw Won [50]
2012 21st Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Minor Role Cousinhood Won [51]
2013 18th Forqué Awards Best Actor Unit 7 Nominated [52]
27th Goya Awards Best Actor Nominated [53]
Best Supporting Actor Invader Nominated [54]
11th Mestre Mateo Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated [55]
22nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Leading Role Unit 7 Won [56]
2014 19th Forqué Awards Best Actor Cannibal Nominated [57]
1st Feroz Awards Best Actor Won [58]
28th Goya Awards Best Actor Nominated [59]
Best Supporting Actor Family United Nominated [60]
23rd Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Leading Role Cannibal Won [61][62]
Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role Family United Nominated
1st Platino Awards Best Actor Cannibal Nominated [63]
1st Fénix Awards Best Actor Nominated [64][65]
2015 2nd Feroz Awards Best Supporting Actor Marshland Nominated [66]
29th Goya Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated [67]
24th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Minor Role Nominated [68][69]
2017 22nd Forqué Awards Best Actor The Fury of a Patient Man Nominated [70]
4th Feroz Awards Best Actor Nominated [71]
31st Goya Awards Best Actor Nominated [72]
26th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Leading Role Nominated [73][74]
2018 5th Feroz Awards Best Actor Abracadabla Nominated [75]
Best Supporting Actor The Motive Nominated
10th Gaudí Awards Best Actor Abracadabra Nominated [76]
32nd Goya Awards Best Actor Nominated [77]
27th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role The Motive Nominated [78][79]
2019 24th Forqué Awards Best Actor The Realm Won [80]
6th Feroz Awards Best Actor Won [81]
33rd Goya Awards Best Actor Won [82]
Best Supporting Actor A Twelve-Year Night Nominated [83]
28th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Leading Role The Realm Won [84]
6th Platino Awards Best Actor Won [85]
2020 25th Forqué Awards Best Actor The Endless Trench Nominated [86]
7th Feroz Awards Best Actor Nominated [87]
34th Goya Awards Best Actor Nominated [88]
29th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Leading Role Nominated [89][90]
7th Platino Awards Best Actor Nominated [91][92]
2023 2nd Carmen Awards Best Actor On the Edge Nominated [93][94]
2024
 30th Forqué Awards Best Actor in a Film Glimmers Pending
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2025
 12th Feroz Awards Best Main Actor in a Film Pending
[96]

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