Asier Etxeandia

Asier Gómez Etxeandia (Bilbao, 27 June 1975) is a Spanish actor, whose work encompasses television, theatre and cinema. This article needs a better English translation.

Biography

Asier Etxeandia

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

Asier Etxeandia left his native Basque Country and moved to Madrid when he was twenty years old. In Madrid he first worked as a sex shop assistant while also taking acting classes. In 1995, he debuted on TV 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 who enrolls in a Performing Arts school to become an actor. Etxeandia left the series because he feared becoming typecast. In spite of this, he recognises that this role opened doors and got him his first friends in the business, among them actress Natalia Millán.^[2]

Natalia Millán thought of him for the adaptation of musical play Cabaret, that she was also 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 which is included as additional content in the DVD release.

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 de la Riva (2014–2016)

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 Bride (Spanish: La novia), as The Groom (2015 film). 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

Fotogramas of Silver

Union of Actors

Prizes Max

Prizes Ercilla

Spanish film festival of Málaga

References

• Interview "to Play to Be" in Pastiche

1. ↑ Faltan siglos El Correo digital.com
2. ↑ Entrevista 20minutos.es