Sbaraglia

Leonardo Máximo Sbaraglia (; born 30 June 1970) is an Argentine actor, with extensive credits in both Argentina and Spain. He has also worked in Mexico, and was cast in his first English-language role in '' Red Lights''.

Biography

Sbaraglia was born in Buenos Aires where his mother, Roxana Randon, is a local actress and theater coach. He started his acting career at the age of 16 in ''La noche de los lápices'', a political documentary drama directed by Héctor Olivera.Interview in the Spanish TV show ''Caiga Quien Caiga'', broadcast 2 December 2005.

In 1987, he gained popularity among Argentine youth for his role in the TV series ''Clave de sol''. In the following years, he starred in TV and film productions as well as in theatre (such as ''La Soledad de los Campos de Algodon'', ''Closer''). In 1993, he worked for the first time together with Argentine director Marcelo Piñeyro in '' Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito''. They came together again for ''Caballos salvajes'' (1995), for which Leonardo Sbaraglia earned the Jury Prize for Best Acting at the Huelva International Film Festival, and later for ''Cenizas del paraíso'' (1997) and an acclaimed performance in ''Plata quemada'' (2000).

Sbaraglia emigrated to Spain in 1998.¿Se acuerdan de mí?
Ciudad.com.ar He starred with Eusebio Poncela in ''Intacto'', a 2001 thriller directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, and received a Goya Award for Best New Actor. His other starring roles include ''Deseo'' (2002), a Gerardo Vera film in which he plays alongside Leonor Watling and Cecilia Roth, and ''Carmen'' (2003), an adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's classic by director Vicente Aranda.

Sbaraglia worked again in 2005 with director Antonio Hernández, with whom he had already shot ''En la ciudad sin límites'' in 2002. This and his contribution to Sebastián Borensztein's mini TV series ''Tiempo final'' (2000) after their production of '' El garante'', for which he earned the Martín Fierro Award for best performance by an actor; Hernández and Piñeyro are the only directors with whom Sbaraglia has worked with more than once.

He was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 for his role of Jesús Irurre in the film ''Salvador (Puig Antich)'' in which he starred with German actor Daniel Brühl. The city of Huelva awarded Sbaraglia an honorary award in 2005.

Sbaraglia returned to Argentina in 2008, and starred in Marcelo Piñeyro's ''Las viudas de los jueves'' in a role nominated for an Argentine Film Critics Association Silver Condor Award. Among his notable later roles are alongside Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver in Rodrigo Cortés' '' Red Lights'' (2012); and as one of two men in a caught in a road duel in Damián Szifrón's acclaimed '' Wild Tales'' (2014).

Family

Sbaraglia married the Argentine sculptor Guadalupe Martín in 2001; the couple have one child.

Filmography

Film

Television

* ''Clave de Sol'' (1987)
* ''Atreverse'' (1990)
* ''Amores'' (1991)
* ''El gordo y el flaco'' (1991)
* ''Alta comedia'' (1991)
* ''Cartas de amor en cassette'' (1993)
* ''De poeta y de loco'' (1996)
* '' El garante'' (1997)
* ''Casablanca'' (1998)
* ''Bajamar, la costa del silencio'' (1998)
* ''La argentina de tato'' (1999)
* ''Tiempo final'' (2000)
* ''Al filo de la ley'' (2005)
* '' Epitafios'' (2009)
* ''Impostores'' (2009)
* ''Lo que el tiempo nos dejó'' (2010)
* ''Dos lunas'' (2013)
* ''En terapia'' (2012–2014)
* ''Todos mienten'' (2022)
* ''Elite'' (2023-2024)

Awards

Martín Fierro Awards

References

External links

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1970 births
Living people
Male actors from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Italian descent
Argentine male film actors
Argentine male television actors
20th-century Argentine male actors
21st-century Argentine male actors