Rubén Ochandiano de Higes (born 3 October 1980) is a Spanish actor.
Life and career
Rubén Ochandiano de Higes was born in
Madrid
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on 3 October 1980. He is the nephew of actress and stage director . He trained as an actor under
Juan Carlos Corazza and .
Ochandiano played bit parts in television series such as ''
Médico de familia'' and ''
Periodistas'' until landing a breakthrough role in high school soap opera ''
Al salir de clase'', portraying Marcos, the shy nephew of the school's principal, from 1999 to 2000.
Ochandiano made his film debut in ''
Flowers from Another World'' (1999). His performance in
Maquis-themed drama ''
Broken Silence'' (2001) as a
sheep herder
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earned him a nomination for a
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 ...
. In the film, his character is forced by a policeman to drink a whole bottle of castor oil in a bar. In 2006, he played an anarchist in the television miniseries ''
Vientos de agua''. He portrayed "perverse and twisted" archbishop Oliva in historical drama series ''
Toledo, cruce de destinos''. In 2018, he was invited to join the
AMPAS
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. In 2019, he appeared as an intermediate trader in the last three episodes of season one of Belgian-Dutch narcoseries ''
Undercover
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Official cover
In espionage, a ...
'', returning for season 2.
Selected filmography
Accolades
References
External links
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1980 births
Living people
Spanish male film actors
Male actors from Madrid
21st-century Spanish male actors