--- name: "Eduardo Noriega" canonical: "https://film.one/person/eduardo-noriega" fi1m_id: "eduardo-noriega" imdb_id: "nm0635330" tmdb_id: 17093 wikidata_id: "Q363703" roles: ["Actor"] born: "1 August 1973" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T02:51:28.266339+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." --- # Eduardo Noriega ## Identity Eduardo Noriega - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eduardo-noriega - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** eduardo-noriega - **IMDb ID:** nm0635330 - **TMDB ID:** 17093 - **Wikidata ID:** Q363703 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Noriega_(Spanish_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363703, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635330/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17093 Actor. Born 1 August 1973 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 1 August 1973, Santander, Cantabria, Spain - **Also known as:** ادواردو نوریگا, Eduardo Noriega Gómez - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Noriega_(Spanish_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363703, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635330/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17093 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Open Your Eyes*](https://film.one/film/open-your-eyes.md) (73) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Eduardo Noriega > Eduardo Noriega is persuasive when a thriller needs us to keep worrying about a man we cannot quite understand. We value his restraint, though the familiar casting of a handsome face with something darker underneath can become limiting. In *Open Your Eyes* (1997), Eduardo Noriega keeps his character recognisable while the film repeatedly changes what we think we know about him. He gives us a person to follow through a plot that could easily exhaust our patience. We rate the performance because it lets the uncertainty do its work without insisting on our sympathy at every turn. For an actor frequently cast in thrillers, knowing how much to hold back is a considerable asset. Alejandro Amenábar gave him his breakthrough with *Thesis* (1996), casting him as Bosco, before *Open Your Eyes* established the partnership further. Those early roles helped fix an enduring pattern of casting: handsome men with something troubled or threatening beneath their appearance. It gives Noriega an immediate place in a thriller, though it can also limit what a film asks of him. Being asked to look attractive and possibly dangerous is not always much of a part. Work with Guillermo del Toro on *The Devil’s Backbone* (2001) put that capacity for darkness to use in a ghost story. His repeated collaborations with Mateo Gil led from *Nadie conoce a nadie* (1999) to the western *Blackthorn* (2011). Films such as *Vantage Point* (2008) and *Transsiberian* (2008) brought an international phase, rather than a clean departure from suspense. We felt uneasy watching Noriega in *Open Your Eyes*, because his composure made it harder to dismiss the uncertainty as a thriller’s trick. That is where Amenábar gets something valuable from him: the acting gives us a reason to care when the plotting becomes overcomplicated. Yet the relationships are less carefully developed than the puzzle, and no amount of control from the lead can supply what is missing between the characters. The explanations disappoint too, after so much ingenuity in keeping us guessing. We would like to see more parts that use his restraint without relying on the familiar suspicion attached to his looks. He need not signal every feeling for us to register it. Start with *Open Your Eyes*, provided an absorbing but overcomplicated thriller sounds like a reasonable evening. ## Biography Eduardo Noriega Gómez (born 1 August 1973) is a Spanish actor. Born in Santander, he moved to Madrid to pursue acting after studying law and music. He first gained attention for his roles in Alejandro Amenábar’s *Thesis* (1996) as Bosco and *Open Your Eyes* (1997) as César, receiving a Goya Award nomination for Best Actor for the latter. He later starred in *The Wolf* (2004) and appeared in international films including *Vantage Point* (2008) as Enrique, *TransSiberian* (2008) and *The Devil’s Backbone* (2001). His television credits include *The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon* (2023). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Open Your Eyes* (1997), Fi1m 73, as César — [page](https://film.one/film/open-your-eyes.md) ## Complete filmography (65) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Hanged Woman* (2026), as Fran - *Hidden Murder* (2025), as Nazario - *Dear Paris* (2024), as Rafael Turina - *Red Queen* (2024), series, as Jaume Soler - *Everything Is Fine* (2023), series, as Antonio - *In the Fire* (2023), as Nicolas Marquez - *The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon* (2023), series, as Antonio - *Sposa in rosso* (2022), as Leon - *Inés of My Soul* (2020), series, as Pedro de Valdivia - *The Devil's Mark* (2020), as Padre Tomás - *The Translators* (2019), as Javier Casal - *Hache* (2019), series, as Alejandro Vinuesa - *You Cannot Hide* (2019), series, as Daniel - *The Buoy* (2019), Actor - *Perfect Strangers* (2017), as Eduardo - *Llueven vacas* (2017), as Fernando - *La sonata del silencio* (2016), series, as Rafael - *Our Lovers* (2016), as Carlos - *Wednesdays Don't Exist* (2015), as Pablo - *Cites* (2015), series, as Ricardo Montiel - *Beauty and the Beast* (2014), as Perducas - *Inside Love* (2013), as Félix · Screenplay - *Sweetwater* (2013), as Miguel Ramírez - *The Last Stand* (2013), as Gabriel Cortez - *A Gun in Each Hand* (2012), as P. - *Homicides* (2011), series, as Tomás Sóller - *Blackthorn* (2011), as Eduardo Apodaca - *Agnosia* (2010), as Carles - *Gigola* (2010), as Tony - *For the Good of Others* (2010), as Diego - *Little Indi* (2009), as Sergi - *El último truco* (2008), as Simón Cárdenas - *Vantage Point* (2008), as Enrique - *TransSiberian* (2008), as Carlos - *Lolita's Club* (2007), as Raúl / Valentín - *Spectre* (2006), as Man Looking at Statue (uncredited) - *Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer* (2006), as Conde de Guadalmedina - *The Method* (2005), as Carlos - *Che Guevara* (2005), as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara - *My Angel* (2004), as Romain - *Souli* (2004), as Carlos - *Wolf* (2004), as Txema Loigorri - *Where Is Madame Catherine?* (2003), as Gerard - *Novo* (2002), as Graham / Pablo - *Warriors* (2002), as Lieutenant Alonso - *Visionarios* (2001), as Joshe González Machinbarrena - *The Devil's Backbone: Behind the Scenes* (2001), Actor - *The Devil's Backbone* (2001), as Jacinto - *Burnt Money* (2000), as Ángel - *The Winter of the Anjanas* (2000), as Eusebio Sánchez Arguello / Andrés Echarri - *To the End of the Road* (2000), Actor - *Nobody Knows Anybody* (1999), as Simón Cárdenas - *The Yellow Fountain* (1999), as Sergio - *Cha Cha Chá* (1998), as Antonio - *Allanamiento de morada* (1998), as Simón Romero - *Open Your Eyes* (1997), as César — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/open-your-eyes.md) - *Le coup du sort* (1997), Actor - *Más allá del jardín* (1996), as Ignacio - *David* (1996), Actor - *Thesis* (1996), as Bosco - *Question of Luck* (1996), as Julio - *Stories from the Kronen* (1995), as Joven pelea 1. - *Luna* (1995), as Alberto - *Colegio Mayor* (1994), series, as Sergio - *Jarabo*, as José María Jarabo ## Gallery - ![Eduardo Noriega, en el programa Taller de Canal Plus, 2008](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-033280c6931a.jpg) Eduardo Noriega, en el programa Taller de Canal Plus, 2008 — Malopez 21, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Eduardo_Noriega_in_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Eduardo Noriega at the presentation of his film Agnosia. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-249c7e6a4509.jpg) Eduardo Noriega at the presentation of his film Agnosia. (2010) — Ivan Gonzalez from Badalona, España, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Eduardo_Noriega_%282010%29_2.jpg/1280px-Eduardo_Noriega_%282010%29_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eduardo Noriega (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-1529d28d920f.jpg) Eduardo Noriega (2010) — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Eduardo_Noriega_1.1.jpg/1280px-Eduardo_Noriega_1.1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eduardo Noriega](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-46daad3cf358.jpg) Eduardo Noriega — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Eduardo_Noriega_1.jpg/1280px-Eduardo_Noriega_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eduardo Noriega](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-cb28e145bb26.jpg) Eduardo Noriega — Image via TMDB - ![Eduardo Noriega, en el programa Taller de Canal Plus, 2008](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-189bd8245e6c.jpg) Eduardo Noriega, en el programa Taller de Canal Plus, 2008 — Malopez 21, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Eduardo_Noriega%2C_en_el_programa_Taller_de_Canal_Plus%2C_2008%2C_02.jpg/1280px-Eduardo_Noriega%2C_en_el_programa_Taller_de_Canal_Plus%2C_2008%2C_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Eduardo Noriega, en el programa Taller de Canal Plus, 2008, 01](https://film.one/media/person/3930746/gallery-60d888697ba4.jpg) Eduardo Noriega, en el programa Taller de Canal Plus, 2008, 01 — Malopez 21, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Eduardo_Noriega%2C_en_Taller_de_Canal_Plus%2C_2008%2C_01.jpg/1280px-Eduardo_Noriega%2C_en_Taller_de_Canal_Plus%2C_2008%2C_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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