Jordi Sánchez (actor)

{{short description|Spanish actor and screenwriter (born 1964)}}

{{Other people|Jordi Sánchez}}

{{Family name hatnote|Sánchez|Zaragoza|lang=Spanish}}

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| name = Jordi Sánchez

| image = Jordi Sánchez en Barakaldo.jpg

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| birth_name = Jordi Sánchez Zaragoza

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|5|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain

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| nationality = Spanish

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| occupation = Actor

| known_for = La que se avecina
Plats bruts

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Jordi Sánchez Zaragoza (born 13 May 1964) is a Spanish actor and screenwriter, mostly known for his role as Antonio Recio in La que se avecina and Josep Lopes in Plats bruts.{{cite news |author=Redacción |title=Jordi Sánchez de 'La que se avecina' protagoniza un drástico cambio de imagen |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/series/20180601/443977860958/jordi-sanchez-la-que-se-avecina-cambio-de-imagen-drastico.html |date=1 June 2018 |access-date=13 July 2018 |newspaper=La Vanguardia |location=Barcelona |language=es}}{{cite news |title=Què se n'ha fet dels actors de 'Plats bruts'? |url=https://cat.elpais.com/cat/2016/08/11/fotorrelato/1470932271_690974.html |date=30 August 2016 |access-date=13 July 2018 |newspaper=El País |language=Catalan}} He got a Certificate of Advanced Study on nursing at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.{{cite web |url=https://www.telecinco.es/outdoor/profesion-desconocias-jordi-sanchez-antonio-recio-LQSA_0_2469075120.html |title=La profesión que desconocías de Jordi Sánchez, nuestro Antonio Recio en 'LQSA' |last=F. Lahoz |first=Natalia |date=14 March 2018 |access-date=14 July 2018 |work=Telecinco |language=es |publisher=Mediaset España}}

He appeared in TV 3 with Joel Joan for the Twelve Grapes at the 2001 New Year's Eve.{{cite news |title=Losactores Joel Joan y Jordi Sánchez darán las campanadas de Fin de Año en TV-3 desde Núria |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/12/20/catalunya/1008814058_850215.html |date=20 December 2001 |access-date=13 July 2018 |newspaper=El País |language=es |location=Barcelona}} In 2011 he published Humanos que me encontré, an autobiographical novel about his childhood and adolescence.{{cite news |url=https://www.diariodemallorca.es/television/2011/12/04/jordi-sanchez-popular-antonio-recio-cuenta-vida-libro/725461.html |title=Jordi Sánchez, el popular Antonio Recio, cuenta su vida en un libro |author=Europa Press |author-link=Europa Press (news agency) |date=4 December 2011 |access-date=22 January 2019 |newspaper=Diario de Mallorca |language=es |publisher=Editora Balear, S.A.}} In 2015 he wrote the stage play El eunuco, based on The Eunuch by Terence.{{cite news |url=https://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/cine/noticias/6567751/03/15/Jordi-Sanchez-el-actor-que-escribia-para-tener-trabajo-y-le-salio-El-eunuco.html |title=Jordi Sánchez, el actor que escribía para tener trabajo y le salió "El eunuco" |date=19 March 2015 |access-date=22 January 2019 |newspaper=El Economista |author=EFE |author-link=EFE |location=Madrid |publisher=Editorial Ecoprensa, S.A.}}

He appeared in the comedy film Bajo el mismo techo (2019), starring with Silvia Abril.{{cite news |url=https://www.europapress.es/cultura/cine-00128/noticia-silvia-abril-jordi-sanchez-estrenan-mismo-techo-comedia-parodias-hacer-tonto-20190122172604.html |title=Silvia Abril y Jordi Sánchez estrenan 'Bajo el mismo techo', una comedia "sin parodias" y "sin hacer el tonto" |location=Madrid |date=22 January 2019 |access-date=26 January 2019 |newspaper=Europa Press |language=es}}