Miguel Ángel García de la Herrán (born 25 April 1996), best known as Miguel Herrán, is a Spanish actor. In 2016, he won the

Goya Award for Best New Actor The Goya Award for Best New Actor () is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category was first presented at the 9th Goya Awards, ninth edition of the Goya Awards, with Saturnino García being the first winner for h ...

for his feature film debut in ''

Nothing in Return ''Nothing in Return'' () is a 2015 Spanish drama film directed by Daniel Guzmán. Cast * Miguel Herrán - Darío * Antonio Bachiller - Luismi * Antonia Guzmán - Antonia * Felipe García Vélez - Justo Caralimpia * Luis Tosar - Padre Darío * ...

''. He gained fame for his performances in television series ''

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'' and ''

Money Heist ''Money Heist'' (, , ) is a Spanish heist crime drama television series created by Álex Pina. The series traces two long-prepared heists led by the Professor ( Álvaro Morte), one on the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain, ...

''.

Life and career

Herrán was born in

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on 25 April 1996 and raised in

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, Madrid. He was not interested in studying and failed four years of his elementary and secondary education. A chance encounter with actor and director Daniel Guzmán in the streets of Madrid led to Herrán auditioning for the role of Darío in the film ''

'' (2015), which would earn him the

. In 2017, he was cast as Aníbal Cortés (codename 'Río') in the Antena 3 series ''

'', which was later picked up by Netflix. In 2018, he starred as Christian Varela in the

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original series ''

''. Herrán also acted in an advertisement for the Indian music streaming platform ''

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''.

Filmography

Films

Television

Accolades

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Herrán, Miguel Living people Male actors from Málaga Spanish male film actors Spanish male television actors 21st-century Spanish male actors 1996 births