Celebrity Biographies
Alex Gonzalez
The merit of having managed to become a young star, one of those who are not exactly abundant in Spanish cinema, must be recognized. Alex González has taken advantage of the fact that television has turned him into an actor with a punch to jump to the big screen, where he has stood out above all as a boxer.
Born on August 13, 1980 in Madrid, Augusto Alejandro José González was already clear when he was very young that acting was his thing. “Since I was a child, I played at being other people and living other lives. The only thing I did when I grew up was to continue with that game, I trained to improve it and I made it my profession,” he recalls. At the age of 15, he left his house and began working as a waiter, in order to finance his studies at the Roberto Aarón acting school. He also received training with Consuelo Trujillo and at the Juan Carlos Corazza International Study.
He made his debut on the right foot as a minor character in the hit series One Step Forward , where he played Ufo, a gruff boy who tended to get into trouble. Since then, Álex González has become a very common face on Spanish television, with his work in Hospital Central , Motivos personales , Los Serrano , Lex , Cuenta atrás and La señora .
In theaters he could be seen for the first time when he starred in Segundo Asalto , Daniel Cebrián ‘s second attempt to establish himself in the cinema , where he played a young aspiring professional boxer. For his work, he obtained a Goya nomination for best new actor.
From that moment on, a couple of veteran filmmakers took notice of the young performer’s worth. Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón turned him into a sailor who saves the life of a criminal ( Jorge Perugorría ), in Una rosa de Francia . José Luis Garci got a lot out of him in Luz de domingo , where he played a lawyer who came to an Asturian town to fill a position in the town hall, and immediately fell in love with the granddaughter of an Indian. Before the wedding takes place, tragedy strikes.
Álex González is also trying to gain a foothold in international cinema. By now it can be considered quite an achievement that he was recruited for a small role in X-Men: First Class . He had to play one of the villains, Riptide, a mutant with the ability to spin his body at a dizzying pace. Although he barely had a presence and did not say a sentence, he is considered the first Spaniard to appear in a superhero film from the Marvel factory.
In any case, the boy is delighted with the film. “It was a lottery that landed me, a wonderful personal experience that allowed me to live in London for four months and three in Los Angeles, learning how their industry works and doing a wonderful English course,” he recalls. “A first contact that has helped me to reaffirm my idea that to work regularly there the important thing is to have a solid career in your country because they see everything. It’s more that, than packing your suitcase and leaving there, so here I continue, step by step, making my way and enjoying everything that I have left here to learn”.
He was about to become another comic character, the iconic Captain Trueno, when Daniel Calparsoro was going to direct the adaptation , but both disassociated themselves from the project and he finally played the protagonist Sergio Peris-Mencheta , with unfortunate artistic results. Álex González has worked with a German filmmaker, Maggie Peren , who gave him a role in the drama Die Farbe des Ozeans .
He was once again an aspiring boxer in Alacrán enamorado , adaptation by Santiago A. Zannou of the novel by Carlos Bardem , who co-starred with him in the film. In the ring, the boy learns to overcome his racial prejudices, which led him to join a group of neo-Nazis.
Álex González did very well to become a young star on the Spanish scene with his relationship
–highly aired by the tabloids– with the very famous singer Chenoa, whom he met when she offered to make a cameo in the series Hospital Central . After maintaining equally resonant idylls with the presenter Beatriz Montañer and the actress Mónica Cruz , the photos of a kiss confirming his relationship with Adriana Ugarte have been widely disseminated , during the presentation at the Malaga Festival of the film Combustión , in which both star together to Alberto Ammann . In the film by Daniel Calparsoro, González plays a guy about to get married who is tempted by an attractive con artist (Ugarte).