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Born
Eduardo Noriega Gómez

(1973-08-01) 1 August 1973 (age 51)
Santander, Spain
Occupation Actor
Years active 1993–present
Spouse(s)
Trinidad Oteros
(m. 2011)

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).

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, Spain, to a Mexican-born 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, 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. Amenábar confessed in a T.T 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.

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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. .....

Personal life

Noriega married his girlfriend of ten years, Trinidad Oteros, on February 8, 2011. 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
1996 Tesis (Thesis) Bosco
Más allá del jardín (Beyond the Garden) Ignacio
1997 Cuestión de suerte Julio
Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) César
1998 Cha-cha-chá Antonio
1999 La fuente amarilla [es] (The Yellow Fountain) Sergio
Nadie conoce a nadie (Nobody Knows Anybody) Simón
2000 Carretera y manta [ca] Luis
El invierno de las anjanas (The Winter of the Fairies) Eusebio
Plata quemada (Burnt Money) Angel
2001 El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) Jacinto
Visionarios (Visionaries) Joshe
2002 Guerreros (Warriors) Teniente Alonso
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
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
2014 La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) Perducas
2015 Los miércoles no existen (Wednesdays Don't Exist) Pablo
2016
Nuestros amantes (Our Lovers) Carlos
2017 Perfect Strangers Eduardo
2019 Les traducteurs Javier
2023 In the Fire Nicolás Márquez
2024 Dear Paris Rafael Turmina
2025 La increíble historia de Julia Pastrana TBA
Television
Year Work Role Notes Ref.
2016 La sonata del silencio Rafael Figueroa
2019–2021 Hache Alejandro Vinuesa
2020 Inés del alma mía (Inés of My Soul) Pedro de Valdivia
2022 Glow and Darkness TBA

Accolades

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

See also

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