Luis López Tosar (born 13 October 1971) is a Spanish actor and musician from Galicia. He is one of the most recognizable and versatile actors in Spain,[1] best known for performances in films such as Cell 211, Take My Eyes, Sleep Tight, Even the Rain, and Mondays in the Sun. He has a music group called "Di Elas".[2]
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Born | Luis López Tosar (1971-10-13) 13 October 1971 (age 50) Lugo, Spain |
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Years active | 1994–present |
Tosar was born on 13 October 1971 in Lugo, even if he usually prefers to identify with the parish of Xustás [es] (in the municipality of Cospeito, also in the province of Lugo), where he actually spent his childhood and teenage years.[3][4]
He began his career playing theater and shorts, but he became famous in Galicia by his performance in 1998 TV Series Mareas Vivas (Televisión de Galicia).[5] Critically acclaimed for his supporting role in the unemployment drama Mondays in the Sun, abusive husband in Take My Eyes, an executive producer in Even the Rain, and doorman in Sleep Tight, his most acclaimed performance has to be from his 2009 hit Cell 211 which stars Tosar as Malamadre, a prisoner that instigates a riot and befriends an undercover prison guard in the process.[6] His only major role in an American film was Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006), starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.[7] Besides that he has appeared in other English films The Limits of Control and Mr. Nice.
In 2012 he dubbed George Washington for the videogame Assassin's Creed III.[8]
On 17 November 2018 he received a star in Almeria Walk of Fame for the films El Niño (2014) and Toro (2016).[9]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2022) |
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1998 | Atilano Presidente | Cazorla | Feature film debut | [10][11] |
1999 | Flores de otro mundo | Damián | ||
Celos | Luis | |||
El corazón del guerrero | Detective 1 | |||
2000 | Sé quién eres | Estévez | ||
El váter susurra | Teodoro | |||
Leo | Paco | |||
La comunidad | Gómez | |||
Besos para todos (Kisses for Everyone) | El Bombilla | [11] | ||
2001 | Lena | Gitano | ||
Visionarios | Delegado del Gobierno | |||
Sin noticias de Dios | Policía | |||
Un asunto pendiente | Esteban | |||
2002 | Semana Santa | Antonio | ||
Los lunes al sol (Mondays in the Sun) | José | [12] | ||
Trece campanadas | Mateo | |||
2003 | El lápiz del carpintero (The Carpenter's Pencil) | Herbal | ||
El regalo de Silvia (Silvia's Gift) | Carlos | [13] | ||
Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) | Antonio | |||
La flaqueza del bolchevique (The Weakness of the Bolshevik) | Pablo López | |||
La vida que te espera (Your Next Life) | Rai | |||
2004 | ¡Hay motivo! [es] | Segment: "Por tu propio bien" | ||
Inconscientes (Unconscious) | Salvador | |||
2005 | One Day in Europe | Deportivo Fan | ||
El mundo alrededor | Florindo | |||
La noche del Hermano | Lorenzo | |||
Aupa Etxebeste! | Ladrón | |||
2006 | Cargo | Baptist | ||
El don de la duda | Árbitro combate de boxeo | |||
Miami Vice | Montoya | |||
Las vidas de Celia (Celia's Lives) | Miguel Ángel | [14] | ||
2007 | Hotel Tívoli (by Antón Reixa) as Suso | |||
Casual Day | Cholo | [15] | ||
Normal con alas [es] | Padre Serafín Amigo | |||
2008 | La noche que dejó de llover | Spleen | ||
2009 | The Limits of Control | Man with Violin | ||
Celda 211 (Cell 211) | Malamadre | [16] | ||
2010 | La sinapsis del códice | Monseñor Hire | ||
Mr. Nice | Craig Lovato | |||
18 comidas (18 Meals) | Edu | |||
Lope (Lope: The Outlaw) | Fray Bernardo | |||
También la lluvia (Even the Rain) | Costa | |||
2011 | Crebinsky [ca] | Comandante | ||
Mientras duermes (Sleep Tight) | César | [17] | ||
2012 | El apóstol [es] | Xavier | Voice work | [18] |
Operación E (Operation E) | Crisanto | [19] | ||
Una pistola en cada mano (A Gun in Each Hand) | L. | [20] | ||
2013 | Qué pena tu familia [es] | Manuel Añón | ||
2014 | A Night in Old Mexico | Panamá | [21] | |
Os fenómenos [gl] | Lobo | [22] | ||
El Niño | Jesús | [23] | ||
Musarañas (Shrew's Nest) | Padre ('father') | [24] | ||
Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades | [16] | |||
2015 | A cambio de nada (Nothing in Return) | Padre de Darío ('Darío's father') | [25] | |
El desconocido (Retribution) | Carlos | [26] | ||
Ma Ma | Arturo | [27] | ||
2016 | Cien años de perdón (To Steal from a Thief) | El Gallego | [28] | |
Toro | López | [29] | ||
1898, Los últimos de Filipinas (1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines) | Teniente Martín Cerezo | [30] | ||
2017 | Plan de fuga (Getaway Plan) | Teniente ('lieutenant') | [31] | |
2018 | Yucatán | Lucas | [32] | |
Ola de crímenes (Crime Wave) | Cosme | [33] | ||
La sombra de la ley (Gun City) | Aníbal Uriarte | [34] | ||
2019 | El increíble finde menguante [es] | Padre de Alba ('Alba's father') | Voice work | [35][36] |
Quien a hierro mata (Eye For an Eye) | Mario | [37] | ||
Ventajas de viajar en tren (Advantages of Travelling by Train) | Martín Urales de Úbeda | [38] | ||
Intemperie (Out in the Open) | Pastor ('shepherd') | [39] | ||
2020 | Adú | Gonzalo | [40] | |
Hasta el cielo (Sky High) | Rogelio | [41] | ||
2021 | Way Down (The Vault) | Simón | [42] | |
Maixabel | Ibon Etxezarreta | [43] | ||
2022 | Código Emperador (Code Name: Emperor) | Juan | [44] | |
Canallas (Monkey Business) | Luismi | [45] | ||
En los márgenes (On the Fringe) | Rafa | [46] |
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2020 | Los favoritos de Midas (The Minions of Midas) | Víctor Genovés | [47] |
Luis Tosar has won 3 Goya Awards considered as the Spanish equivalent of the Academy Awards. He has also won the Málaga Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 Málaga Spanish Film Festival.
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2003 | 17th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Mondays in the Sun | Won | [48] |
2004 | 18th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Take My Eyes | Won | [49] |
2010 | 24th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Cell 211 | Won | [50] |
2011 | 25th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Even the Rain | Nominated | [51] |
2012 | 26th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Sleep Tight | Nominated | [52] |
2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Retribution | Nominated | [53] |
2020 | 34th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Eye for an Eye | Nominated | [54] |
2022 | 36th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Maixabel | Nominated | [55] |
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