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For the Mexican actor, see Eduardo Noriega (Mexican actor).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Noriega and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.
Eduardo Noriega
Noriega at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2010
Born
Eduardo Noriega Gómez

(1973-08-01) 1 August 1973 (age 51)
Santander, Spain
OccupationActor
Years active1993–present
Spouse
Trinidad Oteros
​
(m. 2011)​
Websitewww.eduardonoriega.com

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]

In the United States, Noriega is known for his role as Enrique in the political thriller Vantage Point (2008).

Early life and education

Eduardo Noriega Gómez was born on 1 August 1973 in Santander,[2] Spain, to a Mexican-born father[3] father 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.

Career

He 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 (Spanish: Historias del Kronen). 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.

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.

In 2005, he played the lead role in the independent film Che Guevara produced and directed by Josh Evans.

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.

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.

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.

Personal life

Noriega married his girlfriend of ten years, Trinidad Oteros, on February 8, 2011.[4][5] He speaks Spanish, English, French and Catalan fluently.

Filmography

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 [es] (The Yellow Fountain) Sergio [10]
Nadie conoce a nadie (Nobody Knows Anybody) Simón [12]
2000 Carretera y manta [ca] 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 Carlos
2017 Perfect Strangers Eduardo
2019 Les traducteurs Javier
2023 In the Fire Nicolás Márquez [21]
Television
Year Work Role Notes Ref.
2016 La sonata del silencio Rafael Figueroa [22]
2019–2021 Hache Alejandro Vinuesa [23]
2020 Inés del alma mía (Inés of My Soul) Pedro de Valdivia [24]
2022 Glow and Darkness TBA [25]

Accolades

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1999 13th Goya Awards Best Actor Open Your Eyes Nominated [26]
2005 19th Goya Awards Best Actor The Wolf Nominated [27]
2009 18th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role Transsiberian Nominated [28][29]

References

  1. ^ "Eduardo Noriega: "Todos tenemos un malvado dentro"". 20minutos.es. 19 September 2001.
  2. ^ "Eduardo Noriega". Córdoba. Prensa Ibérica. 25 September 2005.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Eduardo Noriega se casa en secreto". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Hearst España S.L. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  6. ^ Ponga, Paula (2 June 2008). "Eduardo Noriega". Fotogramas.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Benavent 2000, p. 374.
  9. ^ Benavent 2000, p. 185.
  10. ^ a b Benavent 2000, p. 41.
  11. ^ Holland, Jonathan (20 July 1998). "Cha cha cha". Variety.
  12. ^ Benavent 2000, p. 405.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Holland, Jonathan (29 April 2001). "The Devil's Backbone". Variety.
  15. ^ Rooney, David (12 October 2001). "Visionaries". Variety.
  16. ^ Fernández-Santos, Elsa (22 March 2002). "Quería contar la historia de unos niños en el infierno". El País.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Holland, Jonathan (2 February 2014). "Inside Love (Presentimientos): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  19. ^ Lodge, Guy (18 February 2014). "Berlin Film Review: 'Beauty and the Beast'". Variety.
  20. ^ "¿Los miércoles existen?". El Mundo. 6 October 2015.
  21. ^ Cabrera, Mario Alberto (12 June 2023). "In The Fire: la cinta con la que Amber Heard regresa a la pantalla". GQ.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ Herrera, Nuria (1 November 2019). "Quién es quién en 'Hache'". Diez Minutos.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ "Glow and Darkness". Dreamlight (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  26. ^ "Abre los ojos". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  27. ^ "El Lobo". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  28. ^ "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.
  29. ^ "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.
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