The Catalan David Verdaguer He won the Goya for best leading actor for his role as the comedian Eugenio in the film ‘You know that one’ by David Trueba. Verdaguer dedicated it to Trueba, the film’s team and all the comedians, and he did so with a heartfelt memory for Eugenio. “I want to dedicate this award to the comedians of this country because I think they do very, very, very serious work.” “I also dedicate it to my daughter Lupe, my new favorite person in the world“added the actor.

The actor was competing with Manolo Solo, nominated for ‘Close Your Eyes’; Enric Auquer, for ‘The teacher who promised the sea’; Hovik Keuchkerian, for ‘One Love’; and Alberto Amman, for ‘Upon entry’. Verdaguer won his first Goya in 2018 with ‘Verano 1993’, by Carla Simón. This was his fourth nomination.

David Verdaguer (‘They know that’)

Perhaps the soul of Eugenio, whom David plays in They know thatwas introduced into his body when the actor confessed that one of the things he liked most to do in private was “masturbate your nose“. The Catalan comedian also surprised the audience by explaining that he liked to take a little thread of something and insert it into his nose. until you sneeze. But that is not what has brought him to the Goya.

The start of his professional career began on Catalan regional television (TV3) with small roles in series such as The heart of the city (2002-2003) or Plats Bruts (2001). It was not until 2013 when the actor made his debut in the film world, starring alongside Natalia Tena in the debut feature of Catalan director Carlos Marqués-Marcet, 10,000 km. With this interpretation he managed to win a Gaudí Award and was even nominated for a Goya Award.

Later, in 2015, Verdaguer participated as a supporting actor in a film directed by Leticia Dolera, Requirements to be a normal person, which starred Dolera herself and Manuel Burque. These are the different works that the Catalan has gone through:

  • 10,000 km (2014)
  • Requirements to be a normal person (2015)
  • 100 meters (2016)
  • Don’t blame karma for what happens to you because you’re an idiot. (2016)
  • Summer 1993 (2017)
  • Mainland (2017)
  • I leave it whenever I want (2019)
  • The days to come (2019)
  • Get out of the closet (2019)
  • One for all (2020)
  • Home (2020)
  • Kings against Santa (2022)

Manolo Solo (Close your eyes)

Manuel Solo has worked in theater and in dozens of television series, including The Ministry of Time, The Zone, The Plague, Madrid Burns, 30 coins or April 14, as well as in more than forty feature films. His resume includes collaborations with many of the great directors of Spanish cinema, in addition to several Goya Award nominations of delivery for his work in bby David Indurain; The good boss, by Fernando León de Aranoa; and Late for angerby Raúl Arévalo, for which he won ‘big head’ of the Academy.

Furthermore, his participation in this Arévalo film allowed him to win a Fierce award in 2016, the Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers and the Prize of the Union of Actors. Apart from the roles already mentioned, the films in which he has participated throughout his professional career are the following:

  • When everything is in order (2002)
  • computer assault (2002)
  • Carlos against the world (2003)
  • Astronauts (2003)
  • The Weakness of the Bolshevik (2003)
  • Spare parts (2004)
  • 15 days with you (2005)
  • 7 virgins (2005)
  • The Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
  • Lola, the movie (2007)
  • Modesty (2007)
  • The 13 roses (2007)
  • The Consul of Sodom (2009)
  • Cell 211 (2009)
  • Lover (2010)
  • The great Vázquez (2010)
  • beautiful (2010)
  • 23-F: the movie (2011)
  • Verb (2011)
  • Undaunted (2012)
  • Who killed Bambi? (2013)
  • Cannibal (2013)
  • carmina and amen (2014)
  • The minimal island (2014)
  • B, the movie (2015)
  • Innocent murderers (2015)
  • Late for anger (2016)
  • It’s for your good (2017)
  • The invisible guardian (2017)
  • Those in the tunnel (2017)
  • Time after (2018)
  • The shadow of the law (2018)
  • The silence of the white city (2019)
  • Brooklyn Sevillanas (2021)
  • The good boss (2021)
  • Josephine (2021)
  • Full of grace (2022)
  • wild sunflowers (2022)
  • The bogeyman (2023)
  • Close the eyes (2023)

Enric Auquer (‘The teacher who promised the sea’)

In The teacher who promised the sea, Enric Aquer plays the teacher murdered by the Antoni Benaiges regime. We already met Auquer in 2009, in the film Mediterranean diet, but also in the TV3 serial As if you were there, with which he began to gain popularity in Catalonia. However, at the national level it was his role in the film Who kills with iron, by director Paco Plaza, the one who gave this 35-year-old Catalan actor his biggest professional boost. It was precisely this role that earned him 2020 a Goya for Best New Actor.

As for series, he has starred with great success Sky Rojo, The invisible line and Perfect life, by the director and also actress Leticia Dolera. These are the works that Auquer has gone through:

  • Mediterranean diet (2009)
  • The inocents (2013)
  • Barcelona, ​​winter night (2015)’
  • Ebro, from the cradle to the battle (2016)
  • Framed (2017)
  • someone’s daughter (2019)
  • Who kills with iron (2019
  • One year, one night (2022)
  • Father’s life (2022)
  • quest (2023)
  • I have gone viral (2023)

Hovik Keuchkerian (‘One Love’)

Many will know him for his role as Bogotá in The Money Heistthe role that has most promoted his career, but the truth is that before reaching the small and big screen, Hovik Keuchkerian He was a boxer, monologist and poet. The Spanish-Lebanese of Armenian origin has explored the cinematographic world with a certain variety of interpretations, going from Assasin’s Crred to Red Queen, but also with Rainbow or Alacrán enamorado. It was precisely because of his role in the latter that he received his first nomination for a Goya Award, a revelation actor, although on that occasion he did not raise his ‘big head’. Here you can see some of the films he has been through before starring in Isabel Coixet’s film:

  • The days not lived (2012)
  • Way Out (2012)
  • Nieulotne (2013)
  • Scorpion in love (2013)
  • Justice (2014)
  • Bull (2016)
  • Assassin’s Creed (2016)
  • The good infidels club (2017)
  • Revolution(2017)
  • The man who killed Don Quixote (2018)
  • 4 cans (2019)
  • Amerikatsi (2022)

Alberto Ammann (‘Upon Entry’)

Upon Entry recounts the enormous difficulties that, despite having his visas in order, he encounters in the immigration area of ​​the New York airport a couple trying to move from Spain to the United States. The Argentine Alberto Ammann stars in this film more than a decade after making his big leap, with ‘Celda 211’ (2009), which helped him collect the Goya for Best New Actor. In addition to being a great actor, he also started opening his own drama school, along with actress Clara Méndez-Leite, who has also been his partner since 2010. This is the actor’s complete filmography.

  • Cell 211 (2009)
  • lope (2010)
  • Eve (2011)
  • Invader (2012)
  • Thesis on a homicide (2013)
  • Combustion (2013)
  • Mindscape (2013)
  • Betibu (2014)
  • Debt (2015)
  • Lazarus (2017)
  • The hunter’s silence (2020)
  • The year of fury (2021)