Antonio de la Torre (actor)
{{short description|Spanish actor (born 1968)}}
{{family name hatnote|de la Torre|Martín|lang=Spanish}}
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| birth_name = Antonio de la Torre Martín
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| birth_place = Málaga, Spain
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Antonio de la Torre Martín (born 18 January 1968) is a Spanish actor and journalist.
De la Torre is the actor with most nominations overall to the Goya Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publico.es/culturas/antonio-torre-antonio-torre-gana-primer-goya-protagonista.html|website=Público|date=3 February 2019|title=Antonio de la Torre gana su primer Goya como protagonista }} He won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for Dark Blue Almost Black in 2007; whereas, he earned the Goya Award for Best Actor for The Realm in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publico.es/culturas/antonio-torre-antonio-torre-gana-primer-goya-protagonista.html|website=Público|title=Antonio de la Torre gana su primer Goya como protagonista|date=3 February 2019}} He has starred in many films directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, with whom he collaborated for the first time in the short film Profilaxis (2003).{{Cite web|url=https://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/malaga/20150419/sevi-diez-papeles-antonio-torre-201504190031.html|website=ABC|title=Los diez "papeles" de Antonio de la Torre, último Premio Málaga|date=19 April 2015|first=M. José|last=Garde}}
Early life and education
Antonio de la Torre Martín was born on 18 January 1968 in Málaga.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20200224/473744151357/antonio-de-la-torre-del-periodismo-a-prolifico-actor.html|website=La Vanguardia|date=24 February 2020|title=Antonio de la Torre, del periodismo a prolífico actor}}{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2013/08/23/actualidad/1377281456_272211.html|website=El País|first=Gregorio|last=Belinchón|date=24 August 2013|title=Dos actores en la Concha}} He studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid, becoming a close friend of Alberto San Juan, then his classmate at the Complutense's Faculty of Information Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/cine/premios-goya/2019-02-03/antonio-de-la-torre-premios-goya-2019-sevilla_1799614/|website=El Confidencial|date=3 February 2019|title=Antonio de la Torre, el más nominado (13 veces) gana su segundo Goya|first=Agustín|last=Rivera}} Sometime before earning his licentiate degree, he landed a job at Andalusian broadcaster Canal Sur,{{Cite web|url=https://www.hola.com/actualidad/20230118224724/antonio-de-la-torre-de-periodista-a-actor/|website=¡Hola!|title=Antonio de la Torre, el periodista que se dio un descanso para probar suerte como actor|date=18 January 2023|first=Puri|last=Ruiz}} where he worked as a sports journalist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bekia.es/cine/noticias/5-momentos-vida-antonio-de-la-torre/|website=Bekia|title=5 momentos que han marcado la vida de Antonio de la Torre|first=Marta|last=Torres|date=18 January 2018}} In order to reconcile his employment in Seville with his acting training under Cristina Rota and attendance to casting calls, he went back and forth from Seville to Madrid on train.{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2011/02/11/cine/1297378803_850215.html|website=El País|title=Antonio de la Torre, la joya oculta de los Goya|date=11 February 2011|first=Gregorio|last=Belinchón}}
Career beginnings
He started his acting career in television series such as {{ill|Lleno, por favor|es}} or Los ladrones van a la oficina. He landed afterwards minor film roles in The Worst Years of Our Lives (1994, his feature film debut), You Shall Die in Chafarinas (1995), The Day of the Beast (1995), Hi, Are You Alone? (1995), and Not Love, Just Frenzy (1996).{{Cite web|title=Antonio de la Torre recuerda sus mejores películas con Fotogramas|website=Fotogramas|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/noticias-cine/a40620586/antonio-de-la-torre-mejores-peliculas/|first=Juan|last=Silvestre|date=15 July 2022}} He has since developed a long career in cinema.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/cine/201504/11/antonio-torre-conazo-porque-20150411230311.html|website=Diario Sur|title=Antonio de la Torre: "Soy muy coñazo porque no soy el típico actor que dice a todo que sí"|first=Damarís|last=Torrado|date=11 April 2015}}
In 2002, he featured in Poniente, a drama film directed by Chus Gutiérrez exploring the plight of irregular immigrants working in greenhouses in Southern Spain, playing a Spanish racist foreman.{{Cite web|website=Variety|date=16 September 2002|title=Poniente|first=Jonathan|last=Holland|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/poniente-1200546175/}}
Breakthrough
2006 was a key year for De la Torre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/premios-goya/chico-ciudad-jardin-20190204223809-nt.html|website=Diario Sur|date=4 February 2019|first=Francisco|last=Griñán|title=Antonio de la Torre, el chico de Ciudad Jardín que jugaba a ser actor|publisher=Grupo Vocento}} He appeared in a small role in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006), portraying the partner of Penélope Cruz's character Raimunda, killed after attempting to rape Raimunda's daughter Paula (played by Yohana Cobo).{{Cite journal|url=https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/1431/1741|journal=Palabra Clave|location=Chía|publisher=Universidad de La Sabana|volume=11|issue=2|first=María Inmaculada|last=Sánchez-Alarcón|title=El color del deseo que todo lo transforma: claves cinematográficas y matrices culturales en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar|year=2008}} De la Torre also featured in Dark Blue Almost Black (2006), directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, who reportedly wrote specifically De la Torre's role for him, intending to showcase his acting talent.{{Cite web|url=https://prnoticias.z4st.com/2016/09/22/antonio-de-la-torre-tarde-de-ira-destino-wonderland/|website=PRnoticias|date=22 September 2016|title=Antonio de la Torre narra su 'Tarde para la Ira' en Destino: Wonderland}} In the film, he portrayed Antonio, the infertile imprisoned brother of the protagonist (Quim Gutiérrez), who convinces the latter to get his partner Paula (Marta Etura) pregnant.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/09/04/cultura/1157387922.html|website=El Mundo|date=4 September 2006|title='AzulOscuroCasiNegro' empieza con buen pie su gira internacional, al ser aplaudida en Venecia}}{{Cite journal|url=https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/3696|title=Azul|year=2007|first=Adeline|last=Joffres|doi=10.4000/nuevomundo.3696|journal=Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos|doi-access=free}} His performance earned him a Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor, consolidated his career and gained him prestige as an actor. As a result, he left his part-time job as a journalist and fully dedicated to acting since 2007,{{Cite web|url=https://eltelevisero.huffingtonpost.es/2023/02/el-trabajo-del-pasado-de-antonio-de-la-torre-antes-de-ser-actor-que-muchos-desconocen/|website=El Televisero|via=HuffPost|first=Eva|last=Callejo|date=23 February 2023|title=El trabajo del pasado de Antonio de la Torre antes de ser actor que muchos desconocen}} having applied for a leave of absence from a permanent position in Canal Sur that he had just landed in June 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aisge.es/antonio-de-la-torre|title=Antonio de la Torre. "Solo soy un cateto de Málaga que soñaba con todo esto"|first=Eduardo|website=Aisge|last=Vallejo|date=15 February 2014}}
Established career
De la Torre collaborated again with Sánchez Arévalo in Fat People (2009), putting on 33 kg to portray a slimming pill salesman.{{Cite web|website=Cinemanía|via=20minutos.es|title=10 estrellas que cambiaron su físico de forma radical para protagonizar películas|date=30 June 2023|url=https://www.20minutos.es/cinemania/noticias/actores-cambiaron-fisico-radical-protagonistas-peliculas-5141133/|first=Julio|last=Mármol}} De la Torre's performance as Sergio, a silly clown and abusive partner, in Álex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus (2010) earned him his third Goya Award nomination.{{Cite journal|page=30|last=Errazkin Zinkunegi|first=Izaro|issn=1137-4454|title=Balada Triste de Trompeta: una película posmoderna|year=2012|journal=Oihenart|volume=27|url=https://www.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/PDFAnlt/literatura/27/27027044.pdf}}{{Cite web|website=Bekia|url=https://www.bekia.es/cine/noticias/5-momentos-vida-antonio-de-la-torre/|title=5 momentos que han marcado la vida de Antonio de la Torre|date=18 January 2018|first=Marta|last=Torres}}
He played an expeditious, forceful and arrogant police agent in Alberto Rodríguez's Seville-set action thriller Unit 7 (2012).{{Cite web|url=https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20150507/version-espanola-estrena-grupo-7-thriller-accion-alberto-rodriguez-con-antonio-torre-mario-casas/1140468.shtml|website=rtve.es|title='Versión Española' estrena 'Grupo 7', un thriller de acción de Alberto Rodríguez con Antonio de la Torre y Mario Casas|date=7 May 2015}}
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He starred as an anthropophagous tailor in Manuel Martín Cuenca's Cannibal (2013).{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/01/28/andalucia/1359392828.html|website=El Mundo|date=28 January 2013|first=José A.|last=Cano|title=Antonio de la Torre es un sastre antropófago en 'Caníbal'}}
Another collaboration with Alberto Rodríguez, a brief supporting performance as the father of missing girls in crime thriller Marshland (2014), clinched him an additional Goya Award nomination.{{Cite web|website=Diario Sur|url=https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/premios-goya/201502/05/posibilidades-tienen-rovira-torre-20150205200831.html|title=¿Qué posibilidades tienen Rovira, De la Torre y León de ganar el Goya?|date=6 February 2015|first=Francisco|last=Griñán|publisher=Grupo Vocento}}
He starred alongside Luis Callejo in The Fury of a Patient Man (2016), playing a quiet, well-groomed man patiently waiting to enact vengeance.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/the-fury-of-a-patient-man-review-1201852328/|website=Variety|first=Jessica|last=Kiang|date=6 September 2016|title=Film Review: 'The Fury of a Patient Man'}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/fury-a-patient-man-venice-923588/|title='The Fury of a Patient Man' ('Tarde Para la Ira'): Venice Review|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Jonathan|last=Holland|date=1 September 2016}} Also in 2016, he starred alongside Roberto Álamo in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's crime thriller May God Save Us playing the role of a lonely and stuttering police inspector tracking down a rapist and killer of elderly women in Madrid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2863427/0/antonio-de-latorre-roberto-alamo-entrevista/|website=20minutos.es|title=Antonio de la Torre: "Sobre la España negra, siempre hay una película que hacer y una causa que ganar"|date=26 October 2016|first=Carles|last=Rull}}{{Cite web|website=Telemadrid|url=https://www.telemadrid.es/noticias/cultura/Dios-perdone-thriller-violento-Sorogoyen-0-1831616855--20160919044853.html|date=16 September 2016|title='Que Dios nos perdone' un thriller violento de Sorogoyen}}
With The Realm (2018), a new collaboration with Sorogoyen, De la Torre won his first Goya Award for Best Leading Performance, playing Manuel López-Vidal, a well-positioned regional politician whose life crumbles upon the unravelling of a corruption case.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/andro4all/series/antonio-de-la-torre-se-luce-en-esta-pelicula-sobre-corrupcion-en-espana-que-puedes-ver-en-prime-video-si-no-la-conoces-no-te-la-puedes-perder|title=Antonio de la Torre se luce en esta película sobre corrupción en España que puedes ver en Prime Video. Si no la conoces, no te la puedes perder|date=29 June 2024|first=Silvia|last=Fernández|website=La Vanguardia}} He also landed a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the same ceremony for his role as Pepe Mujica in A Twelve-Year Night.{{Cite web|url=https://www.esquire.com/es/actualidad/cine/a26061130/goya-nominados-actor-javier-gutierrez-antonio-de-la-torre-jose-coronado/|website=Esquire|date=29 January 2019|first=Ana|last=Trasobares|title=7 nominados a los Goya nos reciben, con mucho estilo, horas antes de ir a la gala}} In order to prepare for the latter role, involving Mujica's long time in captivity under the civic-military dictatorship, de la Torre lost 15 kg and worked on improving his Uruguayan accent.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/cine/antonio-torre-camino-20180926215609-nt.html|website=Diario Sur|date=26 September 2018|first=Francisco|last=Griñán|title=Antonio de la Torre, en el camino al Oscar|publisher=Grupo Vocento}}
For his portrayal of a man who evades the Francoist repression for 33 years hiding in his house in The Endless Trench (2019), he earned a new Goya Award for Best Actor nomination.{{Cite web|website=Las Provincias|url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/culturas/premios-goya/premios-goya-trinchera-20200124120021-nt.html|title=¿De qué va La trinchera infinita?|date=25 January 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/play/cine/noticias/abci-trinchera-infinita-miedo-hombres-topo-ojos-antonio-torre-201911010041_noticia.html|website=ABC|date=1 November 2019|title=«La trinchera infinita»: el miedo de los hombres topo en los ojos de Antonio de la Torre}}
De la Torre co-hosted the 37th Goya Awards gala along with Clara Lago in February 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/vertele/noticias/clara-lago-antonio-de-la-torre-presentadores-goya-2023-mensajes-politicos-reivindicaciones_1_9946380.html|website=vertele!|via=eldiario.es|date=12 February 2023|title=Las pullas de Clara Lago y Antonio de la Torre en los Goya 2023 para "abrir melones sin salpicar a nadie"}} His supporting performance in The Movie Teller (2023), portraying a hard-working and humble Chilean man disabled in an accident, demanded De la Torre to work on his Chilean accent.{{Cite web|website=Sensacine|url=https://www.sensacine.com/noticias/cine/noticia-1000049383/|title=Antonio de la Torre ('La contadora de películas'): "El método es captar el alma de tu personaje, con todo lo que eso conlleva"|date=3 November 2023|first=Alicia P.|last=Ferreirós}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribunavalladolid.com/noticias/347512/antonio-de-la-torre-he-visto-en-los-ojos-de-los-vallisoletanos-su-pasion-por-el-cine|website=Tribuna de Valladolid|date=23 October 2023|first=Alejandro|last=De grado Viña|title=Antonio de la Torre: "He visto en los ojos de los vallisoletanos su pasión por el cine"}} In 2024, he appeared as a maquis guerrilla figher in black comedy film We Treat Women Too Well,{{Cite web|url=https://www.aisge.es/los-estrenos-del-15-de-marzo-tratamos-demasiado-bien-a-las-mujeres|website=Aisge|title=Los estrenos del 15 de marzo. 'Tratamos demasiado bien a las mujeres'. Maquis perdidos|first=Alberto|last=Úbeda-Portugués|date=11 March 2024}} and in a bit part as a snooty posh parent in Father There Is Only One 4.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elcorreo.com/pantallas/cine/padre-santiago-segura-agota-humor-blanco-20240715105033-ntrc.html|website=El Correo|date=16 July 2024|publisher=Grupo Vocento|first=Oskar|last=Belategui|title='Padre no hay más que uno 4': Santiago Segura agota el humor blanco}} He also lost 30 kg to play the role of a terminally ill patient in Pilar Palomero's Glimmers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/cinemania/noticias/los-destellos-antonio-de-la-torre-deslumbra-festival-san-sebastian-5631945.amp.html|website=Cinemanía|via=20minutos.es|date=22 September 2024|title='Los destellos': la mejor interpretación de Antonio de la Torre deslumbra en el Festival de San Sebastián|first=Andrea G.|last=Bermejo}}
Also in 2024, De la Torre shot the thriller film Los Tigres, resuming collaboration with Alberto Rodríguez with a leading role as an industrial diver.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/alberto-rodriguez-los-tigres-movistar-film-factory-1236056322/|website=Variety|title=Spain's Alberto Rodriguez Opens Up on Marché du Film Standout 'Los Tigres'|first1=Pablo|last1=Sandoval|date=1 July 2024|first2=John|last2=Hopewell}} Likewise, he landed the titular role of serial killer Juan Díaz de Garayo, aka Sacamantecas, in David Pérez Sañudo's Sacamantecas, set in late 19th-century Vitoria-Gasteiz.{{Cite web|url=https://www.noticiasdealava.eus/cultura/2024/11/22/sacamantecas-sera-inquietante-tenebrosa-hipernaturalista-pelicula-david-perez-sanudo-antonio-torre-patricia-lopez-arnaiz-rodaje-vitoria-gasteiz-alava-araba-8958308.html|website=Noticias de Álava|date=22 November 2024|title="Sacamantecas' será inquietante y tenebrosa, pero también hipernaturalista"|first=Carlos|last=González}}
Filmography
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Views
A vocal supporter of Yolanda Díaz's political project, De la Torre closed the electoral list of Sumar in the province of Málaga for the 2023 Spanish general election.{{Cite web|website=Málaga Hoy|date=20 June 2023|title=El actor Antonio de la Torre cierra la lista de Sumar en Málaga para los comicios del 23J|publisher=Grupo Joly|url=https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/actor-malagueno-Antonio-Torre-votar-Sumar_0_1813021317.html}}
Accolades
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References
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External links
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