Fele Martínez Explained

Birth Name:Rafael Martínez
Birth Date:22 February 1975
Birth Place: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]

Early years

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]

Career

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.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Tesis (Thesis) Chema [8]
1997El tiempo de la felicidad (Time of Happiness) Ezequiel [9]
Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) Pelayo
1998Insomnio (Sleepless in Madrid) Rafa
Los amantes del círculo polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle) Otto de joven
Lágrimas negras (Black Tears) Andrés
2000El arte de morir (El arte de morir) Iván [10]
Capitães de Abril (April Captains) Lobão [11]
Luis [12]
Tinta roja (Red Ink) Escalona [13]
2001Tuno negro (Black Serenade) Víctor [14]
Trifino [15]
2002 Hable con ella (Talk to Her) Alfredo [16]
Darkness Carlos [17]
2003Dos tipos duros (Two Tough Guys) Bebe [18]
Utopía (Utopia) Jorge [19]
2004 La mala educación (Bad Education) Enrique Goded [20]
Fanfan [21]
200814, Fabian Road Enrique Gozalvo [22]
Carmo (Carmo, Hit the Road) Marco [23]
El kaserón Alfredo [24]
2013 La Estrella Baltasar [25]
2015 Vampyres Peter [26]
2016La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre (The Night My Mother Killed My Father) Carlos [27]
Nuestros amantes (Our Lovers) Cristóbal
2023Amigos hasta la muerte (Friends Till Death)Paolo
Bajo terapia (Under Therapy) Daniel [28]

Theatre

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
1997 Thesis [31]
2023 Best Actor Alpha Males [32]

External links

This page draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia which was accessed in the version of 30 November 2005.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Así han cambiado los protagonistas de Tesis, 25 años después de su estreno. El Mundo. 13 April 2021. Fátima. Elidrissi.
  2. Web site: Fele Martínez: "Me ponen los desafíos". Levante-EMV. Prensa Ibérica. 11 October 2019. Amparo. Barbeta.
  3. Web site: ¿Quién es Fele Martínez, el actor que acude de invitado a 'Pasapalabra'?. Bluper. El Español. 21 January 2022. Mari Jose. Sandoval.
  4. 20 July 1997. La Revista. El Mundo. La generación del relevo. 92. Elena. Pita.
  5. Web site: Fele Martínez Biography Fandango. Fandango. 2018-01-30.
  6. Web site: Almodovar's Other Bad Boy. April 12, 2005. FilmStew. 20 November 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606055130/http://www.filmstew.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ContentID=11262. 6 June 2011. dead.
  7. News: Actor Fele Martinez grows up. December 19, 2004. San Francisco Chronicle. 20 November 2009 . Delfin . Vigil.
  8. Book: Benavent, Francisco María. Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. 2000. 84-271-2326-4. Bilbao. Ediciones Mensajero. 575.
  9. Web site: Variety. Time of Happiness. 15 November 1997. Jonathan. Holland.
  10. Book: Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio. Spanish Horror Film. Edinburgh University Press. 218. 2012. Edinburgh. 978-0-7486-3638-9.
  11. Web site: Captains of April. Variety. 15 May 2000. Deborah. Young.
  12. Web site: ¿Tú qué harías por amor?. Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  13. Web site: Red Ink. Variety. 23 October 2000. David. Rooney.
  14. Book: 242. Cien profesores universitarios en el cine de ayer y de hoy. Pérez Millán. Juan Antoni. Pérez Morán. Ernesto. 2015. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 978-84-9012-503-8. Salamanca.
  15. Web site: «Noche de Reyes», noche de locos. ABC. 10 August 2001.
  16. Book: McMenamin, Amanda Eaton. https://books.google.com/books?id=_7pTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Salvador. Jimenez Murguía. Alex. Pinar. Hable con ella (Talk to Her) (2002). Rowman & Littlefield. Lanham. 2017.
  17. Web site: Darkness. El Mundo. February 2003. 12 August 2023.
  18. Web site: Dos tipos duros. Zebra Producciones. 13 April 2023.
  19. Web site: Jonathan. Holland. Utopia. 14 April 2003. Variety.
  20. Web site: 12 razones por las que seguimos amando 'La mala educación'. Fotogramas. 18 March 2019. Juan. Silvestre.
  21. Web site: Juan Madrid estrena 'Tánger', su primer filme como director. El País. 15 May 2004. Raquel. Garzón.
  22. Web site: 14, Fabian Road. Variety. 21 April 2008. Jonathan. Holland.
  23. Web site: Carmo, Hit the Road. Variety. 4 February 2009. Todd. McCarthy.
  24. Web site: Inma Cuesta y Fele Martínez okupan 'El Kaseron'. Europa Press. 15 April 2009.
  25. Web site: Estrena de "La Estrella" als cinemes. TV3. 22 May 2013. Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals.
  26. Web site: Los estrenos del 25 de septiembre. 'Vampyres'. La muerte acecha en el bosque. Aisge. Alberto. Úbeda-Portugués. 24 September 2015.
  27. Web site: María Pujalte: "Inés París crea una comedia de enredo en una espiral sin fin". 26 April 2016. La Vanguardia.
  28. Web site: 'Bajo terapia' derriba el machismo patriarcal con una de sus propias armas: los chistes de "cuñaos". Fotogramas. Fran. Chico. 17 March 2023.
  29. Web site: 2021-10-20 . La película "En Temporada Baja", de David Marqués, en rodaje con Antonio Resines, Coque Malla, Edu Soto y Ana Milán en su reparto ¡Exclusiva! El Blog de Cine Español . 2022-03-24.
  30. Web site: Alcalá bulle. elpais.com . 2017-08-27.
  31. Web site: Tesis. 13 August 2023. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. premiosgoya.com.
  32. Web site: Premios Iris 2024: Todos los ganadores con ‘La Unidad Kabul’ como gran triunfadora. El televisero. HuffPost. 17 January 2024.

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