Eduardo Noriega (actor, 1973)

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Eduardo Noriega at the Guadalajara International Film Festival

Eduardo Noriega Gómez (born August 1, 1973 in Santander , Cantabria ) is a Spanish actor. He became known to a wide audience from the mid-1990s through his collaboration with Alejandro Amenábar , who used him in several of his films. Noriega predominantly takes on roles in dramas and thrillers, where he gives complex characters a face that appears both sympathetic, mysterious and threatening to the viewer.

Life

Training and breakthrough with "Tesis"

Eduardo Noriega was born in 1973 in Santander in northern Spain, where he grew up as the youngest of seven brothers and where his hobbies were playing football. His father was originally from Puebla , Mexico , which Noriega got to know when he was a child, when he fell for actors like Paul Newman , Robert De Niro and Gary Oldman . He attended a Catholic boys' school, sang in the choir for five years and studied solfège , harmony and piano at the conservatory in his hometown. His resulting clean pronunciation, combined with his polite manner, would later be criticized by the film director Pedro Almodóvar , who doubted that Noriega could ever play a pimp. He got into acting by accident at the age of 19 after accompanying a friend to a class where you had to actively re-enact scenes yourself. He then attended further courses and enthusiastically enrolled at an acting school for a year. At the same time, he appeared on amateur stages in plays such as Federico García Lorcas Yerma .

In 1992 Noriega moved to Madrid and began studying acting at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (RESAD). There he made the acquaintance of the young directors Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil and worked in their short films. His first recognition as an actor brought him in 1995 Amenábar's short film Luna , for which he was awarded the Acting Prize at the Madrid Short Film Festival Alcalá de Henares . In the same year, Noriega's feature film debut followed with a supporting role in Montxo Armendáriz 's award-winning drama Treffpunkt Kronen-Bar (1995), in which he acted alongside Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà . In 1996 he received his first leading role in Rafael Moleón's crime film Cuestión de suerte , in which he was seen as the young lover of Ana Galiena, who was almost twenty years older than him . In the same year, his breakthrough as an actor paved the way for him to work again with Alejandro Amenábar on his first feature film Tesis - The Snuff Film (1996). In the unconventional thriller about a Madrid film student (played by Ana Torrent ) who happens to be on the trail of a snuff film ring, he slipped into the role of the attractive fellow student Bosco, who is suspected of murder. Tesis , who won the Goya film award in 1997 , made Noriega known to a broad Spanish cinema audience. From then on he was publicly subscribed to the role of playboy .

Rise to leading leading actor and international career

Noriega at the Guadalajara Film Festival

Noriega succeeded in fighting against the image of the handsome boy in 1997 with the lead role in Alejandro Amenábar's Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes . In the surrealist thriller, he plays a young heartbreaker whose face is disfigured by a car accident. After a facial operation, the main male character is plagued by nightmares, in the course of which he kills his lover (played by Penélope Cruz ). The renewed collaboration with Amenábar, for which Noriega daily up to five hours in the mask had to go, brought the Spanish actor in 1999 his first nomination for the Goya as best actor and rising star of the European Film Promotion a. Tom Cruise took on the role of rich César in 2002 in the Hollywood remake Vanilla Sky with Penélope Cruz, which helped the Spanish original to be distributed in Germany five years after its premiere. In the following years Noriega studied at New York's famous The Actors Studio . In his home country he quickly became a symbol of a young Spanish cinema and had the advantage of being able to freely choose his film roles. In 1999 alone he was offered participation in 14 film projects.

In the years that followed, Noriega acted in such diverse roles as the shy bookworm in Miguel Santesmese's thriller La fuente amarilla (1999), as an introverted homosexual bank robber alongside Leonardo Sbaraglia in Marcelo Piñeyro's crime film Burnt Money - Plata quemada (2000) or as the greedy caretaker and child killer in Guillermo del Toro's horror film The Devil's Backbone (2001). Although he was seen in various audiences and critics, Noriega contradicted in an interview with the French news agency Agence France-Presse that he would certainly have a permanent place among the cinema actors in Spain. He attributed his successful career to luck. "I myself have the same insecurities, my same fears ... There are few great actors, and I strive to become one," says Noriega. In 2001, Noriega received the Chopard Trophy, first presented at the Cannes Film Festival , together with the French Audrey Tautou ( The fabulous world of Amélie ) . A year later he opened the door to the French film market with Jean-Pierre Limosin's French romantic film Novo (2002), in which he plays an office worker suffering from dementia . With Marc Recha's comedy Les mains vides (2003) or Serge Frydman's drama Mon ange alongside Vanessa Paradis , other offers from neighboring countries followed. Noriega received great praise from the critics in 2005 for the role of a Basque scaffolding builder who, after a threatened murder charge, allows himself to be persuaded to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA as a mole . The much-discussed thriller El Lobo - The Wolf , which is set at the time of the Francoist dictatorship in the 1970s and is based on the true case of Mikel Lejarza , earned Noriega his second nomination for Goya in 2005. But he had to leave this to his compatriot Javier Bardem , who triumphed for Alejandro Amenábar's Oscar- winning film The Sea in Me .

Since the title role of the Cuban revolutionary leader in Josh Evans' American feature film production Che Guevara (2005), the Spaniard, who reads and sports among his hobbies, has increasingly turned to international cinema. In 2006 he was the film partner of Viggo Mortensen in Agustín Díaz Yanes 'large-scale production Alatriste , while in 2008 Noriega played a twisted Spanish undercover police officer in Pete Travis ' 8 Blickwinkel , who tries in vain to prevent an attack on the US president. In the American thriller he was seen on the side of Dennis Quaid , Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker . At the beginning of December 2008, the theatrical release of Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian followed, in which he is a language teacher alongside Emily Mortimer and Woody Harrelson , who turns out to be a drug dealer pursued by the police during a trip on the Trans-Siberian railway . In 2009, she worked again with Marc Recha on the drama Petit indi , and a year later the male lead in the psychological thriller El mal ajeno , which was produced by Alejandro Amenábar. In 2011, Noriega starred alongside Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea in the Spanish western Blackthorn , directed by Mateo Gil.

In 2011 Eduardo Noriega married his longtime partner Trinidad Oteros in Madrid. Compared by the daily El País because of his versatility with the American actor Edward Norton , he appeared in the Spanish crime series Homicidios in the same year after 15 years of abstinence from television . In this he took on the male lead role of the sarcastic criminal psychologist Tomás Sóller, who goes on the hunt for a serial killer together with a detective (played by Celia Freijeiro ). In 2012 he received the Premio Zapping for best television actor for his performance.

In 2018 he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

Noriega at the presentation of his film Agnosia (2010)

Awards

Goya

  • 1999: Nominated for Best Actor for Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes
  • 2005: Nominated as Best Actor for El Lobo - The Wolf

Further

Alcalá de Henares Short Film Festival

  • 1995: Caja de Madrid Award for Best Actor for Luna

Berlin International Film Festival

Cannes International Film Festival

Fotogramas de Plata

  • 1999: Nominated as Best Actor for Cha-cha-chá
  • 2001: Nominated for Best Actor for Burnt Money - Plata quemada
  • 2002: Nominated for Best Actor for The Devil's Backbone
  • 2005: nominated for Best Actor for El Lobo - The Wolf

Premis Barcelona de Cinema

  • 2005: Nominated as Best Actor for El Lobo - The Wolf

Premios Unión de Actores

  • 2009: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Transsiberian

Premio zapping

  • 2012: Best TV Actor for Homicidios

Web links

Commons : Eduardo Noriega  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile in the All Movie Guide (English; accessed September 7, 2008).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Elsa Fernandez-Santos: Mi reto es ganarme al publico pese a interpretar a un pijo guapo y ligon . In: El País . June 6, 1997, p. 39.
  3. ^ Paula Ruiz and Héctor Rosas: Añora sus raíces mexicanas . In: Reforma (Mexico). August 19, 2006, Edic. 13 Nº4627, p. 13.
  4. ↑ a b Cote Villar: Eduardo Noriega: Actor . In: El Mundo . October 25, 2004, p. 32.
  5. ^ A b Brigitte Baudin: Eduardo Noriega, l'ange noir . In: Le Figaro . February 14, 2001 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  6. ↑ Eduardo Noriega: “En esta profesion lo que se vende es humo” . Spanish Newswire Services, April 24, 1999 (accessed via LexisNexis Economy ).
  7. ↑ Eduardo Noriega no se considera un gran actor, pero aspira a serlo . Agence France-Presse, February 26, 2001, Paris (accessed via LexisNexis Economy ).
  8. ^ Marie-Noëlle Tranchant: Dupeyron en tête . In: Le Figaro . May 19, 2001, Culture (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  9. ^ Mercedes Cervino: Eduardo Noriega: “Rodar en Francia has sido dar un triple salto mortal” . Spanish Newswire Services, February 20, 2003 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  10. ↑ vg. Peter Burghardt: Wolf hunted by ETA wolves . In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 18, 2004, p. 11.
  11. ↑ 'Sí quiero' ..., que no se enter . In: Sur , March 9, 2011 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  12. ↑ Eduardo Noriega . In: El País , September 25, 2011, p. 2.
  13. ↑ Eduardo Noriega, premio 'zapping' al mejor actor por 'Homicidios' at telecinco.es, March 16, 2012 (accessed April 14, 2012).
  14. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
  15. ↑ Popshot: Don't fall in love with me (film with Eduardo Noriega and Michelle Jenner) - Popshot . In: Popshot . ( over-blog.de [accessed on October 10, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Noriega, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noriega Gómez, Eduardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1st August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Cantabria