Eduardo Noriega Gómez (pronounced [eˈðwaɾðo noˈɾjeɣa]; born 1 August 1973) is a Spanish actor. He gained notoriety in Spain for his performance in Thesis (1996), which was followed by roles in Open Your Eyes (1997) and The Wolf (2004).[1]
Eduardo Noriega | |
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 Noriega in 2008 | |
| Born | Eduardo Noriega Gómez 1 August 1973 Santander, Spain |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Spouse |
Trinidad Oteros (m. 2011) |
| Website | www |
In the United States, Noriega is known for his role as Enrique in the political thriller Vantage Point (2008).
Early life and education
editEduardo Noriega Gómez was born on 1 August 1973 in Santander,[2] Spain, to a Mexican-born father[3] and a Spanish mother. He is the youngest of seven siblings and the only one who became an actor. As a child, he devoted himself to music. When he grew up he left his law degree and his love for music and moved to Madrid to become an actor.[citation needed]
Career
editHe acted in several short films by directors Amenábar, Mateo Gil and Carlos Montero and he appeared in a short role in the well-known Spanish film Stories from the Kronen, an adaptation by Montxo Armendáriz of the novel of the same name. But it was not until Tesis that he had his first starring role in a film that became one of the most important successes in the history of Spanish films.[citation needed] Amenábar confessed in a T.T[clarification needed] interview that at first he did not want Noriega in Tesis, thinking he was just a "pretty face", although his collaborators thought otherwise. In the end he called him again because he preferred him over the other actors in the casting. They became close friends and later worked on different projects together, including Open Your Eyes.[citation needed]
With Leonardo Sbaraglia, he appeared in Plata Quemada (English: Burnt Money) (2000), an Argentine film directed by Marcelo Piñeyro. Noriega went on to star in another Piñeyro film, The Method (Spanish: El Método (2005), reuniting with Plata Quemada co-star Pablo Echarri. He appeared as Jacinto in The Devil's Backbone (2001), a film directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar, about life in an orphanage in the last months of the Spanish Civil War. The film also stars Marisa Paredes and Federico Luppi.
He starred as the main actor in Novo (2002), a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin, where he appeared completely nude.[citation needed]
In 2005, he played the lead role in the independent film Che Guevara produced and directed by Josh Evans.[citation needed]
Noriega appeared as Conde de Guadalmedina in Alatriste (2006). Agustín Díaz Yanes directed the film, starring Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Javier Cámara, Ariadna Gil, Blanca Portillo, and Juan Echanove. Alatriste is based on five novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.[citation needed]
Noriega came under spotlight with Vicente Aranda's drama Lolita's Club (2007) where he portrayed Raúl Fuentes and Valentín Fuentes, twin brothers of opposite characters.[citation needed]
He starred in Vantage Point (2008), playing Enrique, a Spanish police officer assigned to protect the local mayor, and who plays an unintended central role in the investigation of the assassination of the American president. He portrayed an escaped drug lord in The Last Stand, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.[citation needed]
Personal life
editNoriega married his girlfriend of ten years, Trinidad Oteros, on February 8, 2011.[4][5] He speaks Spanish, English, French and Catalan fluently.
Filmography
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Historias del Kronen (Stories from the Kronen) | Feature film debut | [6] | |
| 1996 | Tesis (Thesis) | Bosco | [7] | |
| Más allá del jardín (Beyond the Garden) | Ignacio | [8] | ||
| 1997 | Cuestión de suerte | Julio | [9] | |
| Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) | César | [10] | ||
| 1998 | Cha-cha-chá | Antonio | [11] | |
| 1999 | La fuente amarilla (The Yellow Fountain) | Sergio | [10] | |
| Nadie conoce a nadie (Nobody Knows Anybody) | Simón | [12] | ||
| 2000 | Carretera y manta | Luis | ||
| El invierno de las anjanas (The Winter of the Fairies) | Eusebio | [13] | ||
| Plata quemada (Burnt Money) | Angel | |||
| 2001 | El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) | Jacinto | [14] | |
| Visionarios (Visionaries) | Joshe | [15] | ||
| 2002 | Guerreros (Warriors) | Teniente Alonso | [16] | |
| 2003 | Novo | Graham | ||
| Les mains vides (also known as Where Is Madame Catherine?) | Gerard | |||
| 2004 | El Lobo (The Wolf) | Txema | ||
| 2005 | Mon ange | Romain | ||
| El método (The Method) | Carlos | |||
| 2006 | Souli | Carlos | ||
| Alatriste | Conde de Guadalmedina | [17] | ||
| 2007 | Canciones de Amor en Lolita's Club (also known as Lolita's Club) | Raúl Fuentes / Valentín Fuentes | ||
| 2008 | Che Guevara | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara | ||
| Vantage Point | Enrique | |||
| TransSiberian | Carlos | |||
| 2009 | Petit Indi (also known as Little Indi) | Sergi | ||
| 2010 | El mal ajeno | Diego | ||
| Agnosia | Carles | |||
| 2011 | Gigola | Tony | ||
| Blackthorn | Eduardo Apodaca | |||
| 2013 | The Last Stand | Gabriel Cortez | ||
| Sweet Vengeance | Miguel | |||
| Presentimientos (Inside Love) | Félix | Also writer | [18] | |
| 2014 | La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) | Perducas | [19] | |
| 2015 | Los miércoles no existen (Wednesdays Don't Exist) | Pablo | [20] | |
2016 |
Nuestros amantes (Our Lovers) | Carlos | ||
| 2017 | Perfect Strangers | Eduardo | ||
| 2019 | Les traducteurs | Javier | ||
| 2023 | In the Fire | Nicolás Márquez | [22] | |
| 2024 | Dear Paris | Rafael Turmina | [23] | |
| 2025 | La increíble historia de Julia Pastrana | TBA | [24] |
- Television
| Year | Work | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | La sonata del silencio | Rafael Figueroa | [25] | |
| 2019–2021 | Hache | Alejandro Vinuesa | [26] | |
| 2020 | Inés del alma mía (Inés of My Soul) | Pedro de Valdivia | [27] | |
| 2022 | Glow and Darkness | TBA | [28] |
Accolades
edit| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 13th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Open Your Eyes | Nominated | [29] |
| 2005 | 19th Goya Awards | Best Actor | The Wolf | Nominated | [30] |
| 2009 | 18th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role | Transsiberian | Nominated | [31][32] |
References
edit- ^ "Eduardo Noriega: "Todos tenemos un malvado dentro"". 20minutos.es. 19 September 2001.
- ^ "Eduardo Noriega". Córdoba. Prensa Ibérica. 25 September 2005.
- ^ Pando, Juan (9 May 2008). "Eduardo Noriega: "Mi novia me ayuda a no dejarme cegar"". Diez Minutos. Hearst España S.L. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "Eduardo Noriega se casa con su novia en secreto en una Junta Municipal de Madrid". 20 Minutos (in Spanish). 8 March 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ "Eduardo Noriega se casa en secreto". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Hearst España S.L. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ Ponga, Paula (2 June 2008). "Eduardo Noriega". Fotogramas.
- ^ Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. p. 575. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (20 July 1998). "Cha cha cha". Variety.
- ^ Santaolalla, Isabel (2005). Los "otros": etnicidad y "raza" en el cine español contemporáneo. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. p. 237. ISBN 84-7733-753-5.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (29 April 2001). "The Devil's Backbone". Variety.
- ^ Rooney, David (12 October 2001). "Visionaries". Variety.
- ^ Fernández-Santos, Elsa (22 March 2002). "Quería contar la historia de unos niños en el infierno". El País.
- ^ López López, Yolanda (2017). El Siglo de Oro en el cine y la ficción televisiva: dirección artística, referentes culturales y reconstrucción histórica. Madrid: Asociación Cultural y Científica Iberoamericana. p. 399. ISBN 978-84-16549-70-2.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (2 February 2014). "Inside Love (Presentimientos): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Lodge, Guy (18 February 2014). "Berlin Film Review: 'Beauty and the Beast'". Variety.
- ^ "¿Los miércoles existen?". El Mundo. 6 October 2015.
- ^ Úbeda-Portugués, Alberto (1 June 2016). "Los estrenos del 3 de junio. 'Nuestros amantes'. Infieles y románticos". Aisge.
- ^ Cabrera, Mario Alberto (12 June 2023). "In The Fire: la cinta con la que Amber Heard regresa a la pantalla". GQ.
- ^ "Monica Bellucci & Rossy de Palma in Anthology Film 'Dear Paris' Trailer | FirstShowing.net". www.firstshowing.net. 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
- ^ Merenciano, Carlos (2024-06-26). "Eduardo Noriega ficha por Disney+ en su nueva y sorprendente producción española". El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-10-28.
- ^ Cabrera, Óscar; Almodóvar, Marco (21 September 2016). "Eduardo Noriega da vida al oscuro Rafael Figueroa en 'La sonata del silencio: Me llevo bien con los tipos misteriosos". Diez Minutos.
- ^ Herrera, Nuria (1 November 2019). "Quién es quién en 'Hache'". Diez Minutos.
- ^ García Higueras, Laura (1 August 2020). "Elena Rivera y Eduardo Noriega conquistan 'Inés del alma mía': "Hay sexo, culpa y condena eclesiástica y social"". Vertele!. eldiario.es.
- ^ "Glow and Darkness". Dreamlight (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-11.
- ^ "Abre los ojos". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "El Lobo". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Penélope Cruz y Chus Lampreave, rivales en los Premios de la Unión de Actores". 20minutos.es (in Spanish). 19 January 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "El filme ´Camino´ arrasa en los Premios de la Unión de Actores". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 11 March 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2021.