---
name: "Juan Diego Botto"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/juan-diego-botto"
fi1m_id: "juan-diego-botto"
imdb_id: "nm0098709"
tmdb_id: 36632
wikidata_id: "Q1140258"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 August 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:48:18.264132+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."
---

# Juan Diego Botto

## Identity

Juan Diego Botto

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/juan-diego-botto
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** juan-diego-botto
- **IMDb ID:** nm0098709
- **TMDB ID:** 36632
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1140258
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Botto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1140258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098709/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36632

Actor. Born 29 August 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 August 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Botto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1140258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098709/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36632

## Coming up

- *Day Drinker* (2027-03-25)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Room Next Door*](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Juan Diego Botto is an Argentine-Spanish actor and director. He was born on 29 August 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Spain with his mother, the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota, in 1978. He began acting as a child and appeared in early films before gaining attention with a role in the 1995 film *Stories from the Kronen*.

Botto has starred in films including *Martín (Hache)* (1997), *1492: Conquest of Paradise* (1992), *Bordertown* (2007) and *The Suicide Squad* (2021). He played the Photographer in *The Room Next Door* (2024). He has also worked extensively in television, including *Good Behavior* (2016) and *White Lines* (2020), and made his feature directorial debut with *On the Fringe* (2022), which he also wrote and starred in. He is married to journalist and writer Olga Rodríguez.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Room Next Door* (2024), Fi1m 68, as Photographer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md)

## Complete filmography (69)

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

- *Day Drinker* (2027), Actor
- *Better Class* (2026), as Domingo
- *El Centro* (2025), series, as Michelín
- *My Friend Eva* (2025), as Víctor
- *The Stepmother's Bond* (2025), as Raúl
- *Breaking Walls* (2025), as Juanma
- *The Room Next Door* (2024), as Photographer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md)
- *I Don’t Like Driving* (2022), series, as Pablo Lopetegui
- *Staring at Strangers* (2022), as Sergio O'Kane
- *On the Fringe* (2022), as Manuel · Screenplay, Director
- *You Shall Not Lie* (2022), series, as Sergio
- *The Suicide Squad* (2021), as Presidente General Silvio Luna
- *The Europeans* (2020), as Antonio
- *Tales of the Lockdown* (2020), series, Director, Writer
- *White Lines* (2020), series, as Oriol Calafat
- *Rocambola* (2019), as Saeta
- *Instinto* (2019), series, Actor
- *A night with Juan Diego Botto* (2018), Actor
- *Pounding Instincts* (2017), series, as Rodrigo Ugarte
- *Good Behavior* (2016), series, as Javier Pereira
- *Los comensales* (2016), Actor
- *Hablar* (2015), as El Explotador
- *The Ignorance of Blood* (2014), as Falcón
- *Ismael* (2013), as Luis
- *Franco's Settlers* (2013), as Narrator
- *Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent* (2012), Actor
- *God Loves Caviar* (2012), as Alexios Lefentarios
- *Childish Games* (2012), as Daniel
- *Frozen Silence* (2012), as Arturo Andrade
- *Anything You Want* (2010), Actor
- *The Widows of Thursdays* (2009), as Gustavo
- *The Anarchist's Wife* (2008), as Justo
- *El Greco* (2007), as Niño de Guevara
- *Bordertown* (2007), as Marco Antonio Salamanca
- *Va a ser que nadie es perfecto* (2006), Actor
- *Vete de mí* (2006), as Guillermo
- *The Feast of the Goat* (2006), as Amadito García Guerrero
- *Obaba* (2005), as Miguel
- *With Good Reason* (2004), Director
- *Roma* (2004), as Manuel Cueto/ Joaco
- *Augustus: The First Emperor* (2003), series, as Iullo, Iullus Antonius
- *Los abajo firmantes* (2003), as Jorge · Writer
- *13 Curses* (2002), as Jacobo
- *The Dancer Upstairs* (2002), as Sucre
- *El balancín de Iván* (2002), as Roberto
- *Broken Silence* (2001), as Manuel
- *Asfalto* (2000), Actor
- *Ave María* (1999), as Miguel
- *I Will Survive* (1999), as Iñaqui
- *Novios* (1999), as Arturito
- *Plenilune* (1999), as Asesino
- *Am I Beautiful?* (1998), Actor
- *In Praise of Older Women* (1997), as Andrés
- *Martin (Hache)* (1997), as Hache
- *Not Love, Just Frenzy* (1996), as Carlos
- *La Celestina* (1996), as Calisto
- *La sal de la vida* (1996), as Charly
- *Stories from the Kronen* (1995), as Carlos
- *1492: Conquest of Paradise* (1992), as Diego
- *How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt* (1991), as Sergio
- *Ovejas negras* (1990), as Adolfo, niño
- *Zorro: The Legend Begins* (1990), as Felipe
- *Zorro* (1990), series, as Felipe
- *If They Tell You I Fell* (1989), as Sarnita
- *El río de oro* (1986), as Miguel
- *Berta's Motives* (1984), as Luisito
- *Power Game* (1983), Actor
- *Ni te cases ni te embarques* (1982), as Niño
- *Los relatos*, as Pablo

## Gallery

- ![Juan Diego Botto](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-16ac21d27cf3.jpg) Juan Diego Botto — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Malaga_Film_Festival_2025_-_Juan_Diego_Botto-2_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Malaga_Film_Festival_2025_-_Juan_Diego_Botto-2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Juan Diego Botto (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-1de79021acc6.jpg) Actor Juan Diego Botto (2013) — Orodriguez75, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/El_actor_Juan_Diego_Botto.JPG/1280px-El_actor_Juan_Diego_Botto.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Juan Diego Botto en la sesión fotográfica en el Muelle Uno de presentación de la película Los europeos, durante el Festival de Málaga 2020](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-537a9429b36f.jpg) Juan Diego Botto en la sesión fotográfica en el Muelle Uno de presentación de la película Los europeos, durante el Festival de Málaga 2020 — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Festival_de_M%C3%A1laga_2020_-_Juan_Diego_Botto.jpg/1280px-Festival_de_M%C3%A1laga_2020_-_Juan_Diego_Botto.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Juan Diego Botto en la sesión fotográfica en el Muelle Uno de presentación de la película Los europeos, durante el Festival de Málaga 2020](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-eb657ed70884.jpg) Juan Diego Botto en la sesión fotográfica en el Muelle Uno de presentación de la película Los europeos, durante el Festival de Málaga 2020 — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Festival_de_M%C3%A1laga_2020_-_Juan_Diego_Botto_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Festival_de_M%C3%A1laga_2020_-_Juan_Diego_Botto_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Juan Diego Botto](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-daa0fef376ce.jpg) Juan Diego Botto — Image via TMDB
- ![Juan Diego Botto](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-493fb4c848ec.jpg) Juan Diego Botto — Image via TMDB
- ![Juan Diego Botto en la alfombra roja de los premios Goya 2023 celebrados en Sevilla](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-40e273c205f0.jpg) Juan Diego Botto en la alfombra roja de los premios Goya 2023 celebrados en Sevilla — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Goyas_2023_-_Sin_identificar_104.jpg/1280px-Goyas_2023_-_Sin_identificar_104.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![El actor español Juan Diego Botto en el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2006 (2005)](https://film.one/media/person/10695/gallery-46fa22321094.jpg) El actor español Juan Diego Botto en el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2006 (2005) — Mario Antonio Pena Zapatería from Irun, Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Juan_Diego_Botto_en_el_Festival_de_San_Sebastian_2006.jpg/1280px-Juan_Diego_Botto_en_el_Festival_de_San_Sebastian_2006.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Premios Ondas 2023: Premios Ondas (won), for *No me gusta conducir*
- National Theater Prize 2021: National Theater Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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