| Juan José Videgain | |
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| Born | Juan José Videgain Cerezo July 30, 1975 Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | writer, actor and screenwriter |
| Years active | 20 |
Juan José Videgain (born 30 July 1975) is a Spanish writer, actor and director. Most of Videgain's books have reached cult status thanks to their weird sense of humor in Spain. He is from an old theatrical family in Spain. Salvador Videgain is his grandfather. He has written narratives, essays, and biographies.
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Juan José Videgain was born in Madrid, Spain in 1975. He worked in the theatre book field from an early age. He had a brief stint in television before finding work as a film actor. His first, little-seen short film focuses on a family forced to live in a basement after a war. In his second short film, he portrayed a man rebel but also a boy who thinks he is Batman. He made a third short film and Nos miran (2002), a supernatural film of mystery, in Spain.
His book La auténtica vida e historia del teatro (2005) received acclaim from people in Spain as the best book of theatre written amongst them. It also marked his first collaboration with Jack Newman in theatre in (2002).
Videgain portrayed a soldier in the film Kingdom of Heaven, his first movie in English. The film was released in Spain in January 2004 but did not prove as great a success as hoped. The film was explicit in its depiction of violence in medieval Jerusalem and was considered controversial by some Catholics and Muslims, resulting in cuts. Running times for the film vary from minutes in Morocco to 106 minutes in Spain. He is collaborated with people problems leucodistrofia in Spain.