Asier Etxeandía

• Birth Name — Asier Gómez Etxeandia • Born — 27 June 1975 • Birthplace — Bilbao, Spain • Occupation — * Actor • singer • Years Active — 1996–present Asier Gómez Etxeandia (born 27 June 1975) is a Spanish film actor and singer, whose career includes television, theater and film performances. He is best known for his character as Raúl de la Riva in Velvet and Velvet Colección and for Pain and Glory (2019), for which he was nominated for Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Asier Etxeandia studied acting at a Biscayan school, of which he only keeps fond memories of two teachers, Eguzki Zubia and Juan Carlos Garaizabal. He recently commented on its beginnings, noting that "when you are 19 years old, you trust your teachers to the end and sometimes they are not qualified, but in need of your admiration. I believed in them and they almost drove me crazy. They play with personal things, it is dangerous. I learned a lot about what not to do, how not to behave in this profession. The actor complained about the teachers who criticized the students who appeared on TV. He remembers a teacher who cut a boy's hair because she did not like his performance. "They had our brains so drained that we were delighted with that wonderful ritual," he sentenced. Asier Etxeandia left the Basque Country when he settled in Madrid at the age of twenty. In the capital he came to work as a manager of a sex shop while he was studying acting. He went to the program Uno para todos, (Telecinco) in 1995, presented by Goyo González, as a contestant. The Globomedia production company hired him during the first season of One Step Ahead, where he played Beni, a homosexual who entered an arts academy with the hope of becoming an actor. Asier left the series because he feared possible typecasting. In spite of everything, he recognized that his work there opened doors for him and he met his first friends in the capital, including Natalia Millán. Natalia Millán thought of him to star in the musical Cabaret offering him the role of Master of Ceremonies, the one in charge of commenting ironically on the events that take place in Germany in the 1930s. Manuel Bandera and Emilio Alonso León also worked on this montage. During the performance, Asier brought out members of the audience chosen at random, whom he put in trouble on stage. In order to carry out his work, Asier moved away from the interpretation that Joel Gray carried out in the film to be able to make his own creation, without thereby giving up the playful, ill-intentioned and captivating character of the character. In 2005, he starred as Dante in the play Infierno by Tomaž Pandur inspired by the Divine Comedy staged at the Teatro María Guerrero. He was cast in Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, playing a small role as a blind waiter, which was not included in the final cut, but whose scene is part of the additional content of the film on DVD.

Asier is openly gay.

• Year — Title — Channel — Role — Notes • 2000 — Plats bruts — TV3 — 1 episode • 2002 — Un paso adelante — Antena 3 — Benito "Beni" López — 13 episodes • 2004 — Cuéntame cómo pasó — TVE — Mateo — 5 episodes • 2005 — El comisario — Telecinco — Óscar — 1 episode • Los Serrano — Tomás Cruz — 1 episode • Motivos personales — David — 6 episodes • 2006 — Cartas a Sorolla — Canal Nou — TV-Movie • 2008 — Cuenta atrás — Cuatro — Víctor — 1 episodio • Cuestión de sexo — Yago — 3 episodes • 2008 - 2009 — Herederos — TVE — Gorka — 22 episodes • 2009 - 2010 — Los hombres de Paco — Antena 3 — Blackman — 9 episodes • 2010 — Vuelo IL 8714 — Telecinco — Emilio — TV-Movie • 2011 — El ángel de Budapest — TVE — Barrueta • 2012 — La fuga — Telecinco — Miguel Reverte — 12 episodes • 2013 — Tormenta — Antena 3 — Carlos — TV-Movie • Amar es para siempre — Rubén Tudela — 33 episodes • 2014 - 2016 — Velvet — Raúl de la Riva — 47 episodes • 2017 — El final del camino — TVE — Alfonso VI de León — 7 episodes • 2017 - 2019 — Velvet Colección — Movistar+ — Raúl de la Riva — 21 episodes • 2020 — La línea invisible — Movistar+ — El Inglés — 6 episodes • 2021 — Sky Rojo — Netflix — Romeo — 15 episodes

• Cabaret (2003-2005) • El infierno (2005) • La divina comedia, as Dante Alighieri (2005) • El sueño de una noche de verano, as Teseo y Oberón. Dir. Tamzin Townsend (2006-2007) • Barroco, as Valmont (2007) • Los lunes pueden esperar (2008) • Hamlet (2009) • Medea (2009) • Homero, La Iliada, lectura dramatizada. Dir. Andrea D'Odorico (2010) • La avería (2011) • La chunga. Dir. Joan Ollé (2013) • El intérprete (2013)

• Year — Category — Film — Result: • 2016 — Mejor actor de televisión — Velvet — Nominado • 2014 — Mejor actor de televisión — Velvet — Nominado • 2013 — Mejor actor de teatro — El Intérprete — Ganador • 2003 — Mejor actor de teatro — Cabaret — Nominado

• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Reference(s) • La mirada violeta (The Violet Look) — Sergio • El próximo Oriente (The Near East) — Abel • Café solo o con ellas (Love Expresso) — Javi • Las 13 rosas (13 Roses) — Enrique • Mentiras y gordas (Sex, Party and Lies) — Cristo • El Capitán Trueno y el Santo Grial — Hassan • Los días no vividos — Jaime • Musarañas (Shrew's Nest) • Ma ma — Julián • La novia (The Bride) — El novio ('the bridegroom') • La puerta abierta (The Open Door) — Lupita • Dolor y gloria (Pain and Glory) — Alberto Crespo • Sordo (The Silent War) — Anselmo Rojas • Asombrosa Elisa (Amazing Elisa) — Héctor • Teresa — El inquisidor ('the inquisitor') • El molino — Jaime • La cena (The Dinner) — Alonso

• ¡After!, as Koldo. Dir. Oskar Bilbao (1996) • Dame otro final, as a stoner. Dir. Nerea Castro (2000) • Vértices, as Mario. Dir. Juanan Martínez (2004) • Unione Europea, as Tomás. Dir. Andrés M. Koppel (2007) • Final, reparto. Dir. Hugo Martín Cuervo (2007) • Together, as a man. Dir. Gigi Romero (2009) • Supercool, as uncredited choreographer. Dir. Hugo Silva (2016) • Por siempre jamón, script. Dir. Ruth Díaz (2014) • El pelotari y la fallera, as Asier.

• Año — Categoría — Obra de teatro — Resultado • 2009 — Premio Renfe a nuevos valores del cine español — 7 minutos — Ganador

• Year — Category — Result • 2019 — Best Music Video

• Year — Category — Film — Result: • 2019 — Best Supporting Actor — Dolor y gloria • 2015 — Best Actor — La novia

• Year — Category — Film — Result: • 2018 — Best Actor in a Series — Velvet Collection — Nominated

• Año — Categoría — Obra — Resultado • 2020 — Second Best Actor — Dolor y Gloria • 2015 — Best Actor — La novia • Second Best Actor (television) — Velvet • 2013 — Best Theatre Actor — El intérprete • 2011 — Best Theatre Actor — La avería • 2007 — Best Theatre Actor — Barroco • 2003 — Best Actor — Cabaret

• Year — Category — Theatre Work — Result • 2012 — Best Theatre Actor — La avería • 2009 — Best Theatre Actor — Barroco • 2005 — Mejor actor protagonista — Infierno — Precandidato

• Year — 'Category — Theatre Work — Result • 2009 — Best Theatre Actor — Barroco