Eduard Fernandez

Born in Barcelona on August 25, 1964, Eduardo Fernández Serrano studied mime at the Theater Institute. After acting as a clown and mime on the streets of Barcelona, ​​he ended up collaborating in shows at various venues in his hometown, before joining the prestigious theater company Els Joglars, co-founded by Albert Boadella , with which he works on various productions, such as the memorable “I have an uncle in America”, criticism of the colonization of the new continent that was represented in the year of the fifth centenary of its discovery. He also triumphed at the Teatre Lliure interpreting classics by Shakespeare and Molière and was lavished in various television series.

Although he volunteered to intervene briefly inSouvenir and Let me tell you , his first major film role was in the failed comedyZapping , by Chumilla Carbajosa , in which he plays two twin brothers, although he was more successfulLos lobos de Washington , by Mariano Barroso , where some guys plan to steal a substantial amount of money. “Eduard will give the bell” commented Javier Bardem and Barroso in interviews with journalists who still did not know who they were talking about.

From then on, he decides to put his theatrical career aside a bit and concentrate on the cinema. His move does not go wrong, because after intervening inthe doorman andHis master’s voice wins the Goya for best actor with Fausto 5.0. , where he plays an original Mephistopheles, as Machiavellian as he is seductive.

It has caught the attention of veteran directors, such as Bigas Luna (They are of the sea ), Fernando Trueba (The spell of Shanghai ) and Montxo Armendáriz (Obaba ). But he has had more luck when he has opted for young values, such as Roger Gual and JD Wallovits , who recruited him as the protagonist ofSmoking Room , a memorable low-budget film, in which his fight for a smoking room became a stark portrayal of the dehumanization in today’s society, especially in the world of work.

Eduard Fernández has shot titles such asThe Galindez MysteryThings that make life worthwhile , and interestingThe Method , where various guys competed to get a job. The public remembers his role inAlatriste , where he was a comrade in arms of the protagonist.

One of the directors who has made the best use of his talent is Cesc Gay , who made him one of the members of the group of friends who leadIn the city , for which he won a second Goya, this time for best supporting actor. The director was so happy with him that he signed him up for his next job before writing it. “Eduard, irresponsibly, put himself in my hands, agreed to make a film about which he knew almost nothing and was carried away by my constant changes of direction. I remember him patiently encouraging me when I told him that I had abandoned a script that was almost finished”, explains the filmmaker. that’s how he was bornFiction , where he was an alter ego of Cesc Gay himself, a filmmaker who fed up with being “in the city” spends a few days “in the mountains”, at a friend’s rural house, where he will write his next film.

Fernández continues on a roll. He alternates work with Spanish directors, such as the young Mar Coll , who directed him inThree days with the family , or Beda Docampo Feijóo , with whom he filmedCrazy loves , with international projects, such asBiutiful , by Alejandro González Iñárritu orChe, Guerrilla , by Steven Soderbergh . He has received the call from Pedro Almodóvar who has counted on him as a secondary forThe skin I live in The actor has a daughter, Greta Fernández, who is taking her first steps as an actress in a film by her father, for example, she played her daughter in Fiction