Alberto San Juan Guijarro (born 1 November 1968) is a Spanish film, stage and television

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...

Biography

Alberto San Juan was born on 1 November 1968 in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, son to cartoonist and radio announcer Pilar Guijarro Ortiz de Zárate. He spent many of his childhood's summers in Cañamares,

province of Cuenca Cuenca is one of the five provinces of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It is located in the eastern part of this autonomous community and covers 17,141 square km. It has a population of 203,841 inhabitants -- the least populated o ...

. He studied journalism and worked for two years at ''

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'' before pursuing an acting career. At age 24, he joined the Cristina Rota's atelier to train his acting chops. Jointly with

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and

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, San Juan founded the theatre group 'Ración de oreja', which merged with Andrés Lima's 'Riesgo' into the theatre company .

Filmography

Film

Accolades

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