Leonardo Sbaraglia

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Leonardo Sbaraglia (middle name: Máximo;^[1] born June 30, 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine film actor.

Son of actress and theater teacher R. Randon, Leonardo Sbaraglia started his acting career already at the age of 16 in the film La Noche de los lápices (Night of the Pencils), a political documentary drama directed by Héctor Olivera.

In 1987, he gained popularity among Argentinian youth for his role in the TV series Clave de sol. In the following years, he starred in TV and film productions as well as in the theater (e.g., in La Soledad de los Campos de Algodon, Closer).

In 1993, he worked for the first time together with Argentine director Marcelo Piñeyro in Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito. They came together again for Caballos salvajes (1995), for which Leonardo Sbaraglia earned the Jury Price for Best Acting at the Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, and later for Cenizas del paraíso (1997) and Plata quemada (2000).

More recently, Sbaraglia has worked both in Spain, where he has spent most of the time, and in Argentina. In 2001, he starred with Eusebio Poncela in Intacto [Intact], a thriller directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, and received a Goya Award for Best New Actor. Further of his films include Deseo [Desire] (2002), a Gerardo Vera film in which he plays at the sides of Leonor Watling and Cecilia Roth, and Carmen (2003), an adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's classic by director Vicente Aranda.

In 2005, Sbaraglia worked again with director Antonio Hernández, with whom he had already shot En la ciudad sin límites in 2002. This and his contribution to Sebastián Borensztein's mini TV series Tiempofinal (2000) after their production of El Garante in 1997 have been the only two times that Sbaraglia has worked with any director on more than a single project since his collaborations with Piñeyro.

In 2007, Sbaraglia was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Jesús Irurre in the film Salvador (Puig Antich) in which he starred at the side of Daniel Brühl.

In 2001, Sbaraglia married the Argentinian sculptor Guadalupe Martin; in the winter of 2006,^[2] their daughter Julia was born.

[edit] Filmography

La Inercia de los cuerpos (2008) (filming) as Leo
Diario de una ninfómana (2008) (post-production) as Jaime
Santos (2008) as Arturo Antares
Violanchelo [Love, Pain and Vice Versa] (2008)
Estrenando sueños (2008)
El rey de la montaña [King of the Hill (Canada)] (2007) as Quim
Concursante [The Contestant] (2007) as Martín Circo Martín
Estrenando sueños (2007)
Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006) as Jesús Irurre
De bares [US festival title: Drink Up] (2006)
Oculto (2005) as Alex
Al filo de la ley [At the Edge of the Law] (2005) (TV Series) as Álex Villar (13 episodes)
Mitad negada, La (2005)
Estrenando sueños (2005)
La puta y la ballena [The Whore and the Whale] (2004) as Emilio
Cleopatra (2003/I) as Carlos
Carmen (2003/I) as Don José
Utopía (2003) as Adrián
Deseo [Desire] (2002) as Pablo
Nowhere (2002) as Paolo Brandi
En la ciudad sin límites [The City of No Limits] (2002) as Victor
Intacto [Intact] (2001) as Tomás
Tiempofinal [Final Minute] (2000-2002) (TV series)
Plata quemada [Burnt Money, Burning Money (Canada, USA), Vies brûlées (France)] (2000) as El Nene
Los libros y la noche [The Books and the Night] (1999) (documentary) as young Jorge Luis Borges
La Argentina de Tato (1999) (TV Series) as narrator of the series
Vendado y frío (1998) as Playero
Bajamar, la costa del silencio (1998) (TV Series)
Casablanca (1998) (TV Series)
El garante [Collateral Man] (1997) (mini TV Series) as Martin
Cenizas del paraíso [Paradise Ashes, Ashes from Paradise (USA)] (1997) as Pablo Makantasis
Besos en la frente (1996) as Sebastián Miguez
Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio (1996) as Médico joven
De poeta y de loco (1996) (TV Series)
Caballos salvajes [Wild Horses] (1995) as Pedro
No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas [Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going] (1995) as Pablo
Fotos del alma [Pictures of the Soul] (1995)
Fuego gris [Grey Fire] (1994)
Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito [Tanguito, Wild Tango (USA)] (1993) as Pedro
Cartas de amor en cassette [Love Letters in Cassette] (1993) (TV Series)
Alta comedia (1991) (TV Series)
El gordo y el flaco (1991) (TV Series)
Atreverse (1990) (TV Series)
Clave de sol (1987) (TV Series) as Diego
La noche de los lápices [Night of the Pencils] (1986) as Daniel