Israel Elejalde

Israel Elejalde (born 1973) is a Spanish actor as well as a theatre director. Primarily a stage actor with television and film incursions, he had a breakthrough film performance with his role in the 2014 film Magical Girl, which earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor.

Israel Elejalde
(August 2017)
Born	December 10th 1973 Madrid, Spain
Occupations	Actor theatre director

Biography

Born in 1973 in Villaverde, Madrid, Elejalde's stage debut took place at the Juan de Villanueva High School in Orcasitas.^[1] He earned a licentiate degree in Political Science while training as an actor at William Layton's lab.^[1] He further trained at the Teatro de La Abadía [es] under José Luis Gómez and studied stage direction at the RESAD.^[2][1]

Some of his most important stage credits include those in Veraneantes, La función por hacer, and Misántropo.^[2] Primarily an actor, he also writes and directs.^[3] He was in a relationship with actress Bárbara Lennie, along with whom he performed in Magical Girl and different stage plays.^[4][2][5][6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	Gente en sitios (People in Places)			[2]
2014	Magical Girl	Alfredo		[4]
2014	El gran salto adelante	Andrés		[7]
2015	Sicarivs: La noche y el silencio	Néstor		[8]
2016	El hombre de las mil caras (Smoke & Mirrors)	González		[9]
2017	Plan de fuga (Getaway Plan)			[10]
2021	Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas)	Arturo Buendía		[11]
2022	Edén	Victor		[12]
2024	La fianza (The Bond)	Ricardo		[13]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006–10	Cuéntame cómo pasó	Raúl		[14]
2009	Águila Roja	Capitán Rodrigo	Recurring	[14]
2010–11	Amar en tiempos revueltos	Matías Salazar	Main. Introduced in Season 6	[15]
2015	Carlos, rey emperador	Juan Padilla	Recurring. 6 episodes	[14]
2016	Bajo sospecha	Gorka Montero	Main. Introduced in Season 2	[16]
2017–18	Traición	Víctor Ayala	Main	[17]
2019	45 revoluciones (45rpm)	Pedro Zabala	Main. Leading antagonist throughout the series	[18]
2020	Veneno	Pepe Navarro	Recurring. Real-life Pepe Navarro performs a cameo as security guard asking Elejalde to leave	[19]
2021	Ana Tramel. El juego (ANA. all in)	Teniente Moncada	Main	[20]
2023	Las noches de Tefía (Nights in Tefía)	Don Anselmo		[21]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2004	15th Critical Eye Awards	Theatre Award		Won	[22]
2012	15th Max Awards	Best Leading Actor	Veraneantes	Nominated	[6]
2015	29th Goya Awards	Best New Actor	Magical Girl	Nominated	[23]