Birth Place: | A Estrada, Spain |
Death Place: | Rincón de la Victoria, Spain |
Birth Name: | Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera |
Birth Date: | 1949 |
Death Date: | 19 May 2022 (aged 72) |
Occupation: | Actor |
Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera (1949–2022), better known as Chete Lera, was a Spanish actor. With a long on-screen career in addition to a stage career, he featured in films such as The Red Squirrel, Secrets of the Heart, Familia, Barrio, Open Your Eyes, Flores de otro mundo, and Full Moon.
Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera was born in 1949 in A Estrada, Province of Pontevedra. He was raised for most of his childhood in Corcubión, and then moved to Madrid.[1] Prior to acting he was an aeronautic engineer, pilot, bank teller and studied psychology.[2] He began a career as a stage actor in the late 1970s,[3] including his performance in the Eduardo Fuentes-directed stage play Cabaret Castizo (premiered in Madrid on 5 January 1993), portraying a sheriff making a parody out of authoritarian Madrid city councillor Ángel Matanzo; Matanzo's attempts to bring down the play eventually prompted his own sacking from the municipal government board.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] One of his most well known film credits was that of the psychiatrist in Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos.
He won the Silver Biznaga for Best Actor in the 2002 Málaga Film Festival together with the rest of the cast of Smoking Room.
His television work includes performances in Los ladrones van a la oficina, Médico de familia or Cuéntame cómo pasó. His last television work was his performance as Ramón in Mira lo que has hecho.[10] [11]
He died on 19 May 2022, age 72, in the wake of a car accident in Rincón de la Victoria.[12] He was the single occupant of a vehicle that went off the road and fell down a 50-metre steep slope, landing on a plantation.[13]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
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1991 | Todo por la pasta (Anything for Bread) | Jefe Portugueses | Feature film debut | ||
1993 | La ardilla roja (The Red Squirrel) | Salvador | |||
1997 | Familia | Ventura | |||
1997 | Secretos del corazón (Secrets of the Heart) | Ricardo | |||
1997 | Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) | Antonio | |||
1998 | Barrio | Comisario | [14] | ||
1999 | Flores de otro mundo | Alfonso | |||
2000 | Plenilunio (Plenilune) | Ferreras | [15] | ||
2002 | El alquimista impaciente (The Impatient Alchemist) | Luis Dávila | [16] | ||
2002 | Smoking Room | Puig | [17] | ||
2003 | El misterio Galíndez (The Galíndez File) | ||||
2007 | Concursante (The Contestant) | Edmundo Figueroa | [18] | ||
2007 | El niño de barro (The Mud Boy) | Dr. Soria | [19] | ||
2007 | Tocar el cielo (Touch the Sky) | Pedro | [20] | ||
2009 | Filomeno | [21] | |||
2012 | Todo es silencio (All Is Silence) | Rumbo | [22] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
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2017 | El ministerio del tiempo | Guest. Episode: "Tiempo de esclavos" | [23] | ||
2018 | Mira lo que has hecho | Ramón | Recurring. Season 1 | [24] |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | ||
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2002 | Silver Biznaga for Best Actor | Smoking Room | ||||
2004 | Best Actor | Secuestrados en Xeorxia | [25] [26] | |||
2005 | Best Supporting Actor | La promesa | [27] [28] | |||
2008 | Best Actor | The Mud Boy | [29] [30] | |||
Best Supporting Actor | The Contestant | |||||
2009 | Best Actor | Os mortos van á presa | [31] |