Overview
- Family-linked reports and local media say he died in Pontevedra on December 21 and was to be cremated Sunday in a private ceremony.
- A veteran of independent theatre, he founded the JUBY group, co-founded the Olimpo company in Galicia and created the AFAP acting school in 1995.
- He made his screen debut at 52 in José Luis Cuerda’s La lengua de las mariposas (1999), followed by roles in Los lunes al sol, La noche de los girasoles and El buen patrón.
- He won the 2005 Goya for Best Supporting Actor for Mar adentro and later received another Goya nomination for El buen patrón in 2021.
- Pontevedra’s mayor, Miguel Fernández Lores, mourned him publicly, praising a beloved local figure whose work spanned film and television.