Eduardo Noriega (Spanish actor)

Eduardo Noriega Gómez (born August 1, 1973) is a Spanish film actor, perhaps best known for his roles in two Alejandro Amenábar films, the multiple Goya-winning Tesis and Abre los ojos. He also starred in the 2004 film El Lobo. In the United States, Noriega is probably best known for his role as Enrique in the 2008 political thriller Vantage Point.

Biography

Noriega was born in Santander, Spain. Eduardo is the youngest of seven brothers and the only one who decided to become an actor. While he was a child, he devoted himself to music. When he grew up he decided to leave his law degree and his love for music, and move to Madrid in order to become an actor. He acted in several short films of directors Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil and Carlos Montero and he appeared in a short role in the well known Spanish film "Historias del Kronen". But it wasn't until "Tesis" when he had his first star role in a film that became one of most important successes in the history of Spanish films. Amenábar confessed in a T.T interview that he actually didn't want Eduardo in Tesis in the first place, thinking he was just a "pretty face", although his collaborators thought otherwise. In the end he called him again because he preferred him over the other actors in the casting. After that they became close friends, and worked on different projects together, such as the Spanish film hit, Abre los Ojos (Vanilla Sky in the Tom Cruise remake).

With Leonardo Sbaraglia, he has also acted in Plata Quemada ("Burnt Money") (2000), an Argentine film directed by Marcelo Piñeyro. Noriega went on to star in another Piñeyro film, El Método (2005), reuniting with Plata Quemada co-star Pablo Echarri. In 2001, he played the role of Jacinto in The Devil's Backbone, a film directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Agustín and Pedro Almodóvar, about life in an orphanage in the last months of the Spanish Civil War. The film also stars Marisa Paredes and Federico Luppi.

In 2002, he starred as the main actor in Novo, a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin, where he appeared completely nude. In 2006, he played the role of Count of Guadalmedina in "Alatriste", the most expensive film in the history of Spanish cinema. Agustín Díaz Yanes directed the film, starring Viggo Mortensen, Javier Cámara, Ariadna Gil, Blanca Portillo, Juan Echanove, etc. "Alatriste" is based on five novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In 2008, he starred in Vantage Point, playing Enrique, a Spanish police officer assigned to protect the local mayor, and who plays an unintended central role in the investigation for the assassination of the American president.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director
1993	En casa de Diego	Carlos Montero
1993	Luna	Alejandro Amenábar
1994	Soñé que te mataba	Mateo Gil
1994	Una historia más	Doménicao Ciolfi
1995	David	Carlos Montero
1999	Allamiento de morada	Mateo Gil
1994	Historias del Kronen	Montxo Armendáriz
1996	Tesis	Alejandro Amenábar
1995	Cuestión de suerte	Rafael Moleón
1996	Más allá del jardín	Pedro Olea
1996	Abre los ojos	Alejandro Amenábar
1997	Cuestión de suerte	Rafael Moleón
1997	Cha Cha Cha	Antonio del Real
1998	La fuente amarilla	Miguel Santesmases
1998	Carretera y manta	Alfonso Arandia
1999	El invierno de las Anjanas	Pedro Telechea
1999	Nadie conoce a nadie	Mateo Gil
1999	Plata quemada	Marcelo Piñeyro
2000	El espinazo del diablo	Guillermo del Toro
2000	Visionarios	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
2001	Novo	Jean-Pierre Limosin
2002	Guerreros	Daniel Calparsoro
2003	Las manos vacías	Marc Recha
2004	El Lobo	Miguel Courtois
2004	Souli	Alexander Abela
2005	El método	Marcelo Piñeyro
2005	Che Guevara	Josh Evans
2006	Alatriste	Agustín Díaz Yanes
2007	Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club	Vicente Aranda
2008	Transsiberian	Brad Anderson
	Vantage Point	Pete Travis

References

External links

• Eduardo Noriega at the Internet Movie Database

• Official site of Eduardo Noriega