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name: "Javier Gómez Santander"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/javier-gomez-santander"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:16:27.315166+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."
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# Javier Gómez Santander

Writer. Born 1 January 1983 in Santander.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1983, Santander
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2881201, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8996721/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2013213

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Money Heist*](https://film.one/tv/money-heist.md) (70)

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## Biography

Javier Gómez Santander is a Spanish screenwriter, journalist and former television presenter. Born in Peñacastillo, Cantabria in 1983, he trained in journalism and began his career in radio and television, working for outlets including Cadena SER and La Sexta before moving into scriptwriting.

He is best known as head writer and executive producer on the Netflix series *Money Heist* (2017–2021), the first Spanish series to win an International Emmy Award for Best Drama. He has also written episodes of *Sky Rojo* (2021), *White Lines* (2020) and *The Pier* (2019), and contributed to *Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin* (2021) as writer, producer and director. Earlier he published the novel *El crimen del vendedor de tricotosas* in 2015.

*Sources: imdb.com, es.wikipedia.org, hicuespeakers.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Money Heist* (2017), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/money-heist.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin* (2021), series, Director, Writer
- *Sky Rojo* (2021), series, Writer
- *White Lines* (2020), series, Writer
- *Money Heist: The Phenomenon* (2020), Writer
- *The Pier* (2019), series, Writer
- *Money Heist* (2017), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/money-heist.md)
- *Dr. Simi: La Película*, Writer

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