--- name: "Eduard Fernández" canonical: "https://film.one/person/eduard-fernandez" fi1m_id: "eduard-fernandez" imdb_id: "nm0273464" tmdb_id: 87015 wikidata_id: "Q1224788" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 August 1964" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 73 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-01T21:45:42.171245+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Eduard Fernández ## Identity Eduard Fernández - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eduard-fernandez - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** eduard-fernandez - **IMDb ID:** nm0273464 - **TMDB ID:** 87015 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1224788 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1224788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0273464/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87015 Actor. Born 25 August 1964 in Barcelona, Spain. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 August 1964, Barcelona, Spain - **Active:** 2008–2011 - **Also known as:** Eduard Fernández Serrano - **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 76 (1), 2010s 72 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 68 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1, War 1 - **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $68m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1224788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0273464/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87015 ## Coming up - *El mal padre* (2026-11-20) ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*The Skin I Live In*](https://film.one/film/the-skin-i-live-in.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Eduard Fernández > Spain regards Eduard Fernández as one of its leading actors. We have seen him mostly at the edge of other people's films, where he is exact, unshowy and, once, the funniest thing on screen, and we would like to see the rest. In *Che: Part Two* (2008), the guerrillas dig in on a Bolivian farm and the man next door comes to have a look at them. Eduard Fernández plays Ciro Algarañaz, the neighbour, who decides that these strangers must be making cocaine, and acts on it, which does them no good at all. We laughed, in a film that does not go looking for laughs, because Fernández plays it straight, as a sensible man reaching a sensible conclusion. It is a small part and it is the sort of thing he does well: a man with his own ideas who is not in the story to serve anyone else's. He came to film late. He trained in mime at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, worked with the theatre company Els Joglars, and did not make a feature until *Souvenir* (1994), when he was thirty. *Washington Wolves* (1999) got him noticed and *Fausto 5.0* (2001), as Santos Vella, made him a lead. Then came a run of bigger international productions, *Che* for Steven Soderbergh and *Biutiful* (2010) for Alejandro González Iñárritu, both in support. *Biutiful* shows what a supporting actor cannot do in a film already carrying too much. Fernández is Tito, brother to Javier Bardem's Uxbal, who has cancer, and Tito has been sleeping with Uxbal's ex-wife. That is a whole film's worth of betrayal, and Iñárritu fits it in among the raids, the sweatshop and the ghosts. Fernández has worked with Bardem three times, and here the two of them get almost no room together. It is not his fault; nobody in that film except Bardem gets room. The reputation at home rests on work we have not reviewed. In the last decade he has taken the lead in a run of parts drawn from Spanish history and Spanish scandal: Francisco Paesa, the spy and fixer, in *Smoke & Mirrors* (2016); Millán-Astray, founder of the Spanish Legion, in *While at War* (2019); Enric Marco, the impostor, in *Marco, the Invented Truth* (2024); and Manolo Vital in *The 47* (2024). Critics in Spain note that he changes his body for these men and plays their contradictions without telling you what to think of them. He has said as much: "Nunca juzgo a mis personajes, sino que trato de entender sus razones", never judge the characters, try to understand their reasons. Actors say this often. On the evidence of Algarañaz, whose reasoning is wrong and entirely his own, he seems to mean it. So our view is partial, and we say so. We have seen him at the edge of two films by American directors, doing what was asked and, once, rather more. The parts that made his name are the ones we have yet to write up. Start with *Che: Part Two*, which is the better film and gives him the better scene, and watch for the farmer. ## Biography Eduard Fernández is a Spanish actor born on 25 August 1964 in Barcelona. He trained as a mime artist at the Institut del Teatre and began his career in theatre, including several years as a member of the company Els Joglars. He made his feature film debut in the mid-1990s and gained wider recognition with roles in *Washington Wolves* (1999) and *Fausto 5.0* (2001). Fernández is known for performances in *Biutiful* (2010), *The Skin I Live In* (2011), *Smoke & Mirrors* (2016), *While at War* (2019), *Everybody Knows* (2018), *God's Crooked Lines* (2022) and the series *30 Coins* (2020–2023). He appeared as Ciro Algarañaz in *Che: Part Two* (2008). Fernández has received multiple Goya Awards for leading and supporting roles. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *The Skin I Live In* (2011), Fi1m 80, as Fulgencio — [page](https://film.one/film/the-skin-i-live-in.md) - *Biutiful* (2010), Fi1m 63, as Tito — [page](https://film.one/film/biutiful.md) - *Che: Part Two* (2008), Fi1m 76, as Ciro Algarañaz — [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-two.md) ## Complete filmography (77) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *El mal padre* (2026), Actor - *The House of the Spirits* (2026), series, as Severo del Valle - *The Anatomy of a Moment* (2025), series, as Carrillo - *No estás loca* (2025), as Voice - *Marco: The Invented Truth* (2024), as Enric Marco - *The Other* (2024), Director, Writer - *The 47* (2024), as Manolo Vital - *Iron Reign* (2024), series, as Joaquín Manchado - *God's Crooked Lines* (2022), as Samuel Alvar - *Stories to Stay Awake* (2021), series, as Alberto - *Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea* (2021), as Oscar Camps - *30 Coins* (2020), series, as Padre Vergara - *A Thief's Daughter* (2019), as Manuel - *While at War* (2019), as Millán-Astray - *Criminal: Spain* (2019), series, as Carmelo Al Huzaini, Carmelo - *Everybody Knows* (2018), as Fernando - *Crimes Against Humanity* (2017), as (voice) - *Perfect Strangers* (2017), as Alfonso - *The Zone* (2017), series, as Héctor Uría - *Like Shooting Stars* (2017), as Emilio - *1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines* (2016), as Cpt. Enrique de las Morenas - *Smoke & Mirrors* (2016), as Francisco Paesa - *The Night My Mother Killed My Father* (2016), as Ángel - *Truman* (2015), as Luis - *Far from the Sea* (2015), as Santi - *Sara's Runaway* (2015), as Padre - *Happy 140* (2015), as Ramón - *Mouth Shut* (2014), as Juan - *Dying Beyond Their Means* (2014), as Presentador Telediario - *The Kid* (2014), as Sergio - *The Absent* (2014), Actor - *Marsella* (2014), as Jesús - *Barefoot on Red Soil* (2014), as Pere Casaldàliga - *Barefoot on Red Soil* (2014), series, as Pere Casaldàliga - *People in Places* (2013), Actor - *Todas las mujeres* (2013), as Nacho - *A Gun in Each Hand* (2012), as E. - *Sao Felix Do Araguaia* (2012), Actor - *Orange Honey* (2012), as Vicente - *Winning Streak* (2012), as Bestia - *14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys* (2011), as Francesc Cambó - *The Skin I Live In* (2011), as Fulgencio — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-skin-i-live-in.md) - *The Mosquito Net* (2010), as Miguel - *Biutiful* (2010), as Tito — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/biutiful.md) - *La princesa de Éboli* (2010), series, as Felipe II - *Black Bread* (2010), as Mestre - *Todas las Mujeres* (2010), series, Actor - *La princesa de Éboli* (2010), as Felipe II - *Luna caliente* (2009), as Juan - *Black Flowers* (2009), as Peter - *El vestido* (2009), Actor - *Tres dies amb la família* (2009), as Josep Maria - *Amores locos* (2009), as Enrique - *Che: Part Two* (2008), as Ciro Algarañaz — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-two.md) - *Before the Fall* (2008), as Lucio - *Fiction* (2006), as Àlex - *Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer* (2006), as Sebastián Copons - *The Method* (2005), as Fernando - *Obaba* (2005), as Lucas - *Ants in the Mouth* (2005), as Martín - *Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena* (2004), as Jorge - *In the City* (2003), as Mario - *The Galíndez File* (2003), as Galíndez - *Smoking Room* (2002), as Ramírez - *The Shanghai Spell* (2002), as Forcat - *Fausto 5.0* (2001), as Santos - *Sound of the Sea* (2001), as Sierra - *His Master's Voice* (2001), as Charli - *The Goalkeeper* (2000), as Nardo - *Sota el signe de...* (1999), series, as Ramon - *Washington Wolves* (1999), as Miguel (as Eduardo Fernández) - *Zapping* (1999), Actor - *Dos mujeres* (1998), Actor - *Souvenir* (1994), as Martí Marcos - *Mr. Sunny Sky*, Actor - *En nombre de otro*, Actor - *Matar a un oso*, series, Actor ## Gallery - ![Marco, the Invented Truth actor, Eduard Fernández, at 81st Venice Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/9535/gallery-f36b8219363d.jpg) Marco, the Invented Truth actor, Eduard Fernández, at 81st Venice Film Festival (2024) — Ariela Ortiz-Barrantes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez_at_81st_Venice_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez_at_81st_Venice_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marco, the Invented Truth actor, Eduard Fernández, at 81st Venice Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/9535/gallery-6befa85e935d.jpg) Marco, the Invented Truth actor, Eduard Fernández, at 81st Venice Film Festival (2024) — Ariela Ortiz-Barrantes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez_at_81st_Venice_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez_at_81st_Venice_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eduard Fernández](https://film.one/media/person/9535/gallery-aa18a13de276.jpg) Eduard Fernández — GuillemMedina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez%2C_XIV_Premis_Gaud%C3%AD_%282022%29.jpg/1280px-Eduard_Fern%C3%A1ndez%2C_XIV_Premis_Gaud%C3%AD_%282022%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eduard Fernández](https://film.one/media/person/9535/gallery-52e2bc98beb4.jpg) Eduard Fernández — Image via TMDB - ![Eduard Fernández](https://film.one/media/person/9535/gallery-cb128bbe9ed2.jpg) Eduard Fernández — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 11 won, 5 nominated - Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 2025: Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (won), for *The 47* - Premio Nacional de Cinematografía 2025: Premio Nacional de Cinematografía (won), for *Marco, the Invented Truth* - Saint George's Cross 2024: Saint George's Cross (won) - Forqué Awards for Best Lead Actor 2022: Forqué Awards for Best Lead Actor (nominated), for *Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea* - Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 2022: Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (nominated), for *Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea* - Goya Award for Best Actor 2022: Goya Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea* - Premio Feroz for Best Main Actor 2022: Premio Feroz for Best Main Actor (nominated), for *Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea* - Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor 2021: Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor (nominated), for *Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea* - Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 2017: Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (won), for *Smoke & Mirrors* - Silver Shell for Best Actor 2016: Silver Shell for Best Actor (won), for *Smoke & Mirrors* - Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2015: Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (won), for *El Niño* - Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2013: Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (won), for *A Gun in Each Hand* - Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 2011: Gaudí Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (won), for *The Mosquito Net* - Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor 2003: Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor (won), for *In the City* - Goya Award for Best Actor 2001: Goya Award for Best Actor (won), for *Fausto 5.0* - Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award 2001: Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (won), for *Fausto 5.0* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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