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Roberto Álamo
Spanish actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roberto Martínez Felipe (born 1 January 1970), better known as Roberto Álamo, is a Spanish actor who has appeared in more than fifty films since 1996. Álamo won the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance as Javier Alfaro in May God Save Us (2016).[1]
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Life and career
Roberto Martínez Felipe was born in Madrid in 1970.[2][3] He developed an interest in cinema at a young age after watching Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses.[2] He trained at the Cristina Rota acting school and was a member of theatre company Animalario.[3] He made his feature film debut in The Ugliest Woman in the World (1999).[4]
The theatre play Urtain marked a turning point in his career.[5] Álamo starred from 2008 to 2010 in the aforementioned play as the Basque boxer José Manuel Urtain,[6] winning a Max Award for Best Actor for his performance.[2]
His portrayal of Alfaro, a violent police inspector under the spotlight of their superiors and colleagues chasing a rapist and murderer of elderly women, in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's thriller film May God Save Us (2016) won him the Goya Award for Best Actor.[7][8][9]
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Selected filmography
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |
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