Israel Elejalde

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Israel Elejalde
(Israel Elejalde) Aeterna Producciones. FITCteando con Israel Elejalde. Agosto de 2017.jpg
(August 2017)
Born1973
Madrid, Spain
Occupation
  • Actor
  • theatre director

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 breaktrough film performance with his role in the 2014 film Magical Girl, which earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor.

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  [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 whom he performed with in Magical Girl and different stage plays.[4][2][5][6]

Filmography[]

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2013  [es] [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]
Television
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2006–10 Cuéntame cómo pasó Raúl [12]
2009 Águila Roja Capitán Rodrigo Recurring [12]
2010–11 Amar en tiempos revueltos Matías Salazar Main. Introduced in Season 6 [13]
2015 Carlos, rey emperador Juan Padilla Recurring. 6 episodes [12]
2016 Bajo sospecha Gorka Montero Main. Introduced in Season 2 [14]
2017–18 Traición Víctor Ayala Main [15]
2019 45 revoluciones (45rpm) Pedro Zabala Main. Leading antagonist throughout the series [16]
2020 Veneno  [es] Recurring.
Real-life Pepe Navarro performs a cameo as security guard asking Elejalde to leave 		[17]
2021 Ana Tramel. El juego (ANA. all in) Teniente Moncada Main [18]

Awards and nominations[]

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2004 15th Critical Eye Awards Theatre Award Won [19]
2012 15th Max Awards Best Leading Actor Veraneantes Nominated [6]
2015 29th Goya Awards Best New Actor Magical Girl Nominated [20]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Aguilar, Andrea (22 August 2014). "En constante movimiento". Babelia (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Israel Elejalde: "Ambiciono poder seguir eligiendo lo que quiero hacer". Fotogramas (in Spanish). 30 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  3. ^ Vila, José-Miguel (17 January 2018). "Israel Elejalde: "Broadway está lleno de enormes mierdas"". Diario Crítico.
  4. ^ a b Iglesias, Eulàlia (17 October 2014). "La maldición de los deseos cumplidos". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  5. ^ López Palacios, Íñigo (13 December 2017). "Bárbara Lennie: "Estoy seca, no puedo más"". Icon (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  6. ^ a b TorresIsrael Elejalde: “Tu dolor es lo que finalmente te hace artista”, Rosana (15 February 2021). "Los premios Max apuestan por el rigor del nuevo teatro". El País.
  7. ^ Rivera, Alfonso (5 March 2015). "El gran salto adelante: España, un país junto al abismo". Cineuropa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  8. ^ "'Sicarivs: la noche y el silencio'". Aisge (in Spanish). 13 May 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  9. ^ Sánchez Llobera, Francesc (2016). "Paesa: El hombre de las mil caras". Filmhistoria (in Spanish). Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. 26 (2): 91. ISSN 2014-668X. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  10. ^ Hernández Luján, Raquel (1 May 2017). "Plan de fuga – Crítica del thriller criminal de Iñaki Dorronsoro". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  11. ^ Medina, Marta (1 September 2021). "Las 'Madres paralelas' de Almodóvar abren Venecia: un drama de sangre y memoria algo desbaratado". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  12. ^ a b c "El nuevo 'Chico Almodóvar' Las 'relaciones 'paralelas' de Israel Elejalde: De Penélope Cruz a Maribel Verdú". rtve (in Spanish). 5 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Revolución en "Amar en tiempos revueltos" con 16 caras nuevas". Vertele! (in Spanish). eldiario.es. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  14. ^ "'Bajo sospecha': Todos los fichajes de la segunda temporada". Fotogramas (in Spanish). 22 October 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  15. ^ Baro, Enrique (20 November 2017). "Quién es quién en 'Traición', el drama familiar de Ana Belén". Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  16. ^ García Higueras, Laura (8 April 2019). "Israel Elejalde ('45 revoluciones'): "En los 60 había gente que intentaba que se respirara de otra manera en España"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  17. ^ Palenzuela, Fernando S. (4 October 2020). "'Veneno' Capítulo 5: El inesperado cameo de Pepe Navarro con guiño nostálgico al fin de una etapa". FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  18. ^ Dios, Marisa de (20 September 2021). "'Ana Tramel. El juego', la serie de TVE-1 que hace reflexionar sobre la ludopatía". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  19. ^ Cruz, Juan (13 July 2015). "Israel Elejalde: "Tu dolor es lo que finalmente te hace artista"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  20. ^ Zamora, Andrea (7 February 2015). "'La isla mínima', vencedora de los Premios Goya 2015". SensaCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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