Fele Martínez | |
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Born | Rafael Martínez 22 February 1975
Alicante, Spain |
Education | RESAD |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1996–present |
Rafael "Fele" Martínez (born 22 February 1975) is a Spanish actor. He gained notoriety for his performance as Chema in Thesis (1996), his feature film debut and for which he won the Goya Award for Best New Actor. [1] [2]
Rafael Martínez was born in Alicante on 22 February 1975. [2] [3] He moved to Madrid to study at the RESAD, where he set up a theater and storytelling group, the 'Sex-Peare', along with other school alumni. [4]
His chance at stardom came at the hand of Alejandro Amenábar, who offered him a role in his opera prima Thesis. [5] It was for this work that Fele received the Goya Award for Best New Actor in 1996. [6] It was followed by performances in films such as Open Your Eyes (1997), [7] Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998), The Art of Dying (1999), April Captains (2000), Black Serenade (2001), and Bad Education (2004). [7]
He has also participated in several independent film projects including the short films Pasaia (1996), for which he won Best Actor at the Elche Film Festival, Amigos (1997), La cartera (2000), and El castigo del ángel (2002) which he also directed.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1996 | Tesis (Thesis) | Chema | [8] | |
1997 | El tiempo de la felicidad (Time of Happiness) | Ezequiel | [9] | |
Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) | Pelayo | [10] | ||
1998 | Insomnio (Sleepless in Madrid) | Rafa | [11] | |
Los amantes del círculo polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle) | Otto de joven | [12] | ||
Lágrimas negras (Black Tears) | Andrés | [13] | ||
2000 | El arte de morir (El arte de morir) | Iván | [14] | |
Capitães de Abril (April Captains) | Lobão | [15] | ||
Tú qué harías por amor | Luis | [16] | ||
Tinta roja (Red Ink) | Escalona | [17] | ||
2001 | Tuno negro (Black Serenade) | Víctor | [18] | |
Noche de reyes | Trifino | [19] | ||
2002 | Hable con ella (Talk to Her) | Alfredo | [20] | |
Darkness | Carlos | [21] | ||
2003 | Dos tipos duros (Two Tough Guys) | Bebe | [22] | |
Utopía (Utopia) | Jorge | [23] | ||
2004 | La mala educación (Bad Education) | Enrique Goded | [24] | |
Tánger | Fanfan | [25] | ||
2008 | 14, Fabian Road | Enrique Gozalvo | [26] | |
Carmo (Carmo, Hit the Road) | Marco | [27] | ||
El kaserón | Alfredo | [28] | ||
2013 | La Estrella | Baltasar | [29] | |
2015 | Vampyres | Peter | [30] | |
2016 | La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre (The Night My Mother Killed My Father) | Carlos | [31] | |
Nuestros amantes | Cristóbal | [32] | ||
2023 | Amigos hasta la muerte (Friends Till Death) | Paolo | [33] | |
Bajo terapia (Under Therapy) | Daniel | [34] |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1997 | 11th Goya Awards | Best New Actor | Thesis | Won | [37] |
2023 | 25th Iris Awards | Best Actor | Alpha Males | Won | [38] |
This page draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia which was accessed in the version of 30 November 2005.