Federico Luppi

Born on February 23, 1936 in the city of Ramallo (Buenos Aires province). As a young man, he worked in various occupations before seeing his dream of dedicating himself to the theater come true. He made his debut on the big screen with a small role in El ídolo , from 1965, although it was key to his career From him The romance of Aniceto and Francisca , starring him, where he played a loner who found love.

After taking part in numerous successful titles in Argentina in the 70s and 80s, such as La patagonia rebelde or No habrá más penas ni olvido , he built a solid international reputation thanks to two great filmmakers. The first is Adolfo Aristarain , who gave him one of the most important roles in his filmography in Tiempo de revancha , where two guys fake an accident to demand compensation from a multinational, with tragic results. The film was successful in various countries and, among other awards, won first prize at the Havana Film Festival.

They then filmed together Last Days of the Victim , where Luppi was a contract killer. The actor also participated in his film Betrayal and Vengeance , about an amnesiac woman hunted by assassins.

His most notable collaboration occurs in the magisterial Un lugar en el mundo , where he was an exiled professor in a remote valley, befriending a recently arrived Spanish engineer ( José Sacristán ). Subsequently, Aristarain has directed him in La ley de la frontera –where he was a bandit–, ​​Martín (Hache) –in which he played a film director trying to connect with his son– and Common Places –in which he gave life to a university professor who fights for social justice–.

The other prominent filmmaker who adopted Luppi (with very good judgment) as a fetish actor is the Mexican Guillermo del Toro , whom the actor gave an accolade by becoming the protagonist of his debut film, Cronos , where he was an antiques dealer who found a contraption 16th century gilding. Once consecrated, Del Toro turned to Luppi again to turn him into a professor who did strange experiments in The Devil’s Backbone . In Pan’s Labyrinth , the Argentine had a small but significant intervention as the king in a fantasy world imagined by a girl to escape from the sad reality of him in the Spanish postwar period.

The great director and screenwriter John Sayles gave him the lead role in Gunmen , in which Luppi nailed the role of a veteran doctor who decides to look for his former students in a Latin American country at war.

After the implementation of the corralito (controversial measure of the Argentine government that restricted the amount of cash that could be withdrawn from banks), Federico Luppi decided to leave his country and settle in Spain, where he has lived since then, and even obtained Hispanic nationality. After divorcing the mother of his first child, and having another with a Uruguayan woman, he is currently together with the Spanish actress Susana Hornos.

A regular actor at the theater, he has proven his worth in productions such as “El guía del Hermitage”, which was staged in various Spanish cities. He also made his directorial debut with Pasos , written by Susana Hornos, in which six young people in a provincial city celebrated the failure of the 23-F coup.

His latest works include Cuestión de principios , in which he is a guy who refuses to sell an old issue of a magazine with a photo of his father to his superior, and No Return , in which he plays the role of a father who seeks justice after the abuse of his son.