Juan Fernández | |
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Born | Juan Fernández Mejías 1957
Seville, Spain |
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Juan Fernández Mejías (born 1957), also known professionally simply as Juan Fernández, is a Spanish actor. While he has a decades-long career as stage actor, he is rather known to the public for supporting performances in film and television works. [1]
He had his debut in a feature film with a performance as 'Juan' ("a burly truck driver") in Benito Zambrano's 1999 drama Solas, [3] [4] for which he earned the Actors Union Award for Best Film Performance in a Minor Role. [5] [6] Since then, his early filmography includes supporting appearances in feature films such as El corazón del guerrero (2000), Fausto 5.0 (2001), Lucía y el sexo (2001), El alquimista impaciente (2002), La caja 507 (2002), Hable con ella (2002), Atraco a las tres... y media (2003) and El refugio del mal (2003), whereas he also performed in guest roles in television series such as Periodistas, El comisario, Policías, Abogados , Raquel busca su sitio and Padre Coraje as well as the TV movies Jugar a matar and Diario de un skin . [7]
Later in his career Fernández performed a recurring role in Los hombres de Paco (Tomás aka "Castresana") in 2007, [8] [9] and starred in the TV series Tierra de lobos, aired on Telecinco from 2010 to 2014, playing the authoritarian landlord Antonio Lobo, the main antagonist throughout the series. [10] [11] He performed another antagonist role in the first two parts of the popular series Money Heist, playing Colonel Prieto, the CNI representative seeking to liberate Alison Parker from the Royal Mint. [12] In 2017, he joined the cast of Amar es para siempre to play Rodrigo Tuñón, a veteran of the Spanish civil war for the Rebel faction. [13]
Fernández landed supporting roles in two 2020 historical drama television series, Inés del alma mía and El Cid, [14] [15] playing in both cases the grandfather of the lead character ( Inés Suárez and Ruy Díaz).
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
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2004 | La sopa boba | Pedro | [16] | |
2005–2006 | 7 días al desnudo | Gus Marina | [17] | |
2007 | Los hombres de Paco (Paco's Men) | Tomás, aka Castresana | [8] | |
2007 | R.I.S. Científica | Guillermo Cuevas (Ventura's mentor) | [18] [19] | |
2009 | Los exitosos Pells | Franco Andrada | [20] [21] | |
2010–2013 | Tierra de lobos | Antonio Lobo | [10] | |
2015–2016 | Víctor Ros | Comisario Buendía | [22] | |
2017 | El final del camino | Diego Peláez | [23] | |
2017–2018 | Amar es para siempre | Rodrigo Tuñón de Guevara | [13] | |
2017–2020 | La casa de papel (Money Heist) | Coronel Prieto | [12] | |
2019 | Lontano da te / Lejos de ti | Aníbal | [24] | |
2020 | Inés del alma mía (Inés of My Soul) | Don Alonso | [15] | |
2020 | El Cid | Rodrigo (Ruy's grandfather) | [25] |