Antonio de la Torre

Born in Malaga on January 18, 1968, Antonio de la Torre discovered his passion for soccer at the age of 11. Since he saw becoming a professional soccer player out of his reach, he decided to be a sports journalist, reading all the newspapers on the subject within his reach, playing constantly, and “studying soccer meticulously,” as he explains. He even recorded himself imitating professional announcers like José María García.

After working at Canal Sur Radio and presenting the weekend sports news on Canal Sur Television, he discovered that he was passionate about acting, to such an extent that although he continued with this last job on Saturdays and Sundays, the rest of the week he traveled to Madrid to go to castings. “I always wanted to tell something because for that I became a journalist, and then an actor,” explains De la Torre.

After some shorts, and characters in series like Full please , he made his film debut in a brief role as a journalist in The worst years of our lives , followed by numerous episodic interventions, in titles like The Day of the Beast , Secondary Roads , Torrente , the foolish arm of the law , etc.

His first role “of a certain substance”, as he himself says, came from Benito Zambrano , who offered him to play “El Loren” in Padre coraje . There De la Torre drew a lot of attention, because he managed to look like a real junkie, based on tenacity, because he lost many kilos, he was talking to numerous outsiders, and he went to meet the guy his character was inspired by.

Antonio de la Torre became a regular supporting actor in Icíar Bollaín ‘s films , who cast him in Hello, are you alone? , Flowers from another world , I give you my eyes and Mataharis . Daniel Monzón also had him for El corazón del guerrero and El robo más grandes nunca contado . But his great year was 2006, when Almodóvar counted on him for a brief intervention in Volver , and Daniel Sánchez Arévalo –with whom he had shot several shorts– made him one of the protagonists of his first feature, Azul oscuro casi negro. The actor did a very brilliant job playing a convict, to the point that he won the Goya for best secondary.

Since then they give him characters of greater entity. Sánchez Arévalo counted on him again for Gordos and for his role he gained more than 30 kilos. He was also Walrus, the boyfriend of Malena Alterio in Una palabra tuya , by Ángeles González Sinde . He made the leap to an international production with his intervention in Che, guerrilla , he played the protagonist’s brother in Lope and participated in titles such as La isla interior , La mitad de Óscar , Balada triste de trompeta and Primos , Sánchez Arévalo’s third work, which it doesn’t roll without it.