Javier Ambrossi

Francisco Javier García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi (born 24 June 1984), better known as Javier Ambrossi, is a Spanish writer, producer, director and actor. He is best known for forming a creative duo with Javier Calvo, with whom he has delivered the stage play '' La llamada'' and its film adaptation, as well as the television series '' Paquita Salas'', '' Veneno'' and '' La mesías''.Javier Ambrossi y Javier Calvo crearon 'La llamada' para dar trabajo a Belén Cuesta
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Early life

Ambrossi was born in Madrid, the son of Francisco Javier García de la Camacha and wife Sofía Gutiérrez-Ambrossi. From a young age, he dreamed of being a writer. Ambrossi graduated with a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and studied dramaturgy at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. His younger sister, Macarena García, is also an actress.

Career

Ambrossi's career as an aspiring actor began in the early 2000s, as he took on many bit roles. He had supporting roles in a number of national television series, including '' El comisario'', '' Génesis: En la mente del asesino, Hermanos y detectivos,'' '' Amar en tiempos revueltos'', ''Cuéntame cómo pasó, Maitena: Estados alterados, La fuga,'' and '' Arrayán''. His best known roles were as Gustavo in the series '' Sin tetas no hay paraíso'' and as Cristiano in the series '' Ciega a citas.'' Ambrossi also acted in the film '' Sexykiller, morirás por ella'' and had the leading role in ''El triunfo.'' In the theater, he had parts in ''El enemigo de la clase'' and in ''Beaumarchais.''

Since 2013, Ambrossi has co-directed ''La llamada'' at the Teatro Lara in Madrid, a musical he created alongside Javier Calvo. In August 2015, the Mexican production of ''La llamada'' opened at the López Tarso theatre in Mexico City with a Mexican cast. Los Javis co-directed the film adaptation of ''La llamada'', '' Holy Camp!'', which premiered in September 2017. It is centered around two teenage girls attending a rural Catholic summer camp.

In July 2016, the web television series '' Paquita Salas'', created by Ambrossi and Calvo, premiered on Flooxer. The pair originally created the indie series as a way to hone their filmmaking skills, but due to its success, Netflix acquired the rights to air the second season of the series. There are currently three seasons with a fourth pending release. The comedy show is named for its mature female protagonist, who is a failing 50 year old showbiz agent and is played by Brays Efe. The mockumentary style of the series was very original in Spain, who doesn't have a tradition of short-form sitcoms.

Along with Calvo, Ambrossi was listed 47th in El Mundo's list of most important LGBT people in Spain in 2017. They have been credited with pioneering a new model of authorship for popular film in Spain, and in 2020 ''El País'' described them as "an unstoppable millennial revolution".

From October 2017 to February 2018, Ambrossi and Calvo appeared on the reality television talent competition show '' Operación Triunfo'' as the teachers of acting in the "Academy".

In 2020, Ambrossi and Calvo created the biographical television limited series '' Veneno,'' which aired on Atresplayer Premium and HBO Max. The series narrates the life of actress, celebrity, model, sex worker, and star, Cristina Ortiz, la Veneno, who was one of the first women to bring visibility to the trans community in Spain during the nineties and is based on Valeria Vegas's ''¡Digo! Ni puta ni santa: Las memorias de la Veneno''. When the first three episodes were released, they landed at the top of Spain's box office, and subscribers to Atresplayer increased by 42% with the show, which is watched ten times more than any other on the platform. The show was picked as one of ''Variety's'' best international series in 2020.

''Veneno'' was the first project that Ambrossi and Calvo created under their own production company, Suma Latina Producciones. In 2021, they relaunched the company under the name Suma Content. The independent production company operating internationally and is based in Madrid. In an interview with ''Variety'', Ambrossi explained, "At Suma Latina we were only able to do one production a year and we always had exclusive arrangements that limited what we could do. Suma Content was born for us to be free, no more exclusives."

Since 2020, Ambrossi has been a panelist for '' Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta'', the Spanish version of the international music game show ''Masked Singer''. On 1 March 2021, Ambrossi was announced as a judge for ''Drag Race España'', the Spanish version of the television drag queen competition ''Drag Race''.

In 2023, the family thriller television series '' La mesías'', created, written and directed by Ambrossi and Calvo for Movistar Plus+, was included out of competition in the official section of the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival. Centered around the life of a man named Enric, who carries religious childhood trauma, the series is about how he is impacted by the viral video of a Christian pop music group, and it has been described as their most ambitious and complex project to date.

Ambrossi and Calvo also created the drama television series '' Vestidas de azul'' for Atresplayer Premium, a spin-off and continuation for ''Veneno'' in 2023. The show begins two years after ''Veneno'' when Valeria returns to Valencia and discovers a VHS copy of Antonio Giménez Rico's famous documentary ''Vestida de azul'' and looks to uncover what has happened to the six transgender women it features. "With the series, we’d like to convert the documentary’s protagonists into a mainstream phenomenon, giving them what they didn’t have in the past: Fame but also respect and affection," Ambrossi has explained.

In February 2024, Ambrossi co-hosted the 38th Goya Awards, alongside Calvo and actress and singer Ana Belén.

On the whole, Ambrossi, along with Calvo, is bringing greater visibility to the LGBTQ+ community and related themes via his work in the mainstream media industry. There work has been described as "representative of a Spanish queer aesthetics which navigates between combative subversion and mainstream normalization" and as "changing hegemonic social and ideological constructs in relation to gender, sexuality, and identity".

Filmography

Recognition and accolades

Personal life

Ambrossi has been in a relationship with actor and director Javier Calvo since 2010. Together, the two are universally known as "los Javis" and have become public figures with active social media followings. They spontaneously proposed to each other at the Capitol Cinema in Madrid during the premiere event for one of their films. Both of them have the phrase "Lo hacemos y ya vemos", which translates to "we'll do it and we'll see" and is the title of a song from ''La llamada,'' tattooed on their forearms.

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1984 births
Living people
Male actors from Madrid
Spanish male film actors
Spanish male stage actors
Spanish male television actors
Spanish male screenwriters
Spanish gay actors
Spanish gay writers
Spanish LGBTQ film directors
Spanish LGBTQ screenwriters
LGBTQ television directors
LGBTQ theatre directors
Gay screenwriters
21st-century Spanish male actors
Drag Race España
Spanish film directors
Spanish television directors
Spanish theatre directors
21st-century Spanish screenwriters
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
21st-century Spanish LGBTQ people