---
name: "Miguel Bernardeau"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/miguel-bernardeau"
fi1m_id: "miguel-bernardeau"
imdb_id: "nm8149945"
tmdb_id: 1846370
wikidata_id: "Q57584369"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 December 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T10:29:37.968976+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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# Miguel Bernardeau

## Identity

Miguel Bernardeau

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/miguel-bernardeau
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** miguel-bernardeau
- **IMDb ID:** nm8149945
- **TMDB ID:** 1846370
- **Wikidata ID:** Q57584369
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Bernardeau, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57584369, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8149945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1846370

Actor. Born 12 December 1996 in Valencia, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 December 1996, Valencia, Spain
- **Also known as:** Мигель Анхель Бернардо Дуато, Miguel Ángel Bernardeau Duato
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Bernardeau, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57584369, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8149945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1846370

## Fi1m on Miguel Bernardeau

> Miguel Bernardeau has spent a decade playing well-born young men who are made to change, and he plays them at full heat. In *La bola negra* that heat is plain to see; what we are still waiting for is stillness.

Watch Miguel Bernardeau as Rafael in *La bola negra* (2026) and you can see the effort. He leans into every scene, he burns, and the film gives him plenty to burn about. What he does not do is settle. Next to Penélope Cruz, who can stand in a doorway and let a scene happen to her, and Guitarricadelafuente, whose stillness the camera keeps returning to, Bernardeau is the one on screen working hardest, and we could tell. Our review said he gives Rafael more heat than depth, and added that this may be the part. We stand by both halves.

The career so far is a run of well-born young men who start out difficult and are made to change. He began with small television parts in 2016, made his film debut in *It's for Your Own Good* (2017), and became known as Guzmán in the teen series *Elite* (2018–2021), where the pattern was set. *1899* (2022) put him in an international ensemble as Ángel. *Zorro* (2024) handed him Diego de la Vega, a rich young man with a conscience he has to hide. He has said he does not feel typecast by *Elite*, and we believe him, but it is fair to say the industry noticed one thing he does and asked for it again.

The more interesting turn is *Querer* (2024), the miniseries from Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, in which he plays Aitor Gorosmendi and, by the accounts that reached us, does the contained, inward work that the heat elsewhere tends to cover. We have not reviewed it and will not pretend to a verdict; we note that it is where his reputation as a serious actor was made, and that it came from a director rather than a franchise. *La bola negra*, from Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, is the first time he has carried a film of that kind, and he carries it the way he carries everything, forward and at pace.

Which is the reservation. Bernardeau has intensity and commitment, and he does the reading for the historical parts. What we have not yet seen him do on a cinema screen is stop. The best moments in *La bola negra* belong to actors who do less, and he is standing beside them. He has spoken recently of wanting roles that frighten him. Good. The one that would frighten him most is a man who says nothing for a scene and is understood anyway.

## Biography

Miguel Bernardeau is a Spanish actor. He was born Miguel Ángel Bernardeau Duato on 12 December 1996 in Valencia, Spain. He is the son of television producer Miguel Ángel Bernardeau and actress Ana Duato.

He studied dramatic art at Santa Monica College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. Bernardeau began his career with small roles in Spanish television before gaining prominence as Guzmán Nunier Osuna in the Netflix series *Élite* (2018–2021). He has since appeared in *1899* (2022) as Ángel and *Zorro* (2024) as Diego de la Vega.

His film credits include *It's for Your Own Good* (2017), *Crime Wave* (2018) and the forthcoming *La bola negra* (2026), in which he plays Rafael Rodríguez Rapún.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *La bola negra* (2026), Fi1m 74, as Rafael — [page](https://film.one/film/la-bola-negra.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *La bola negra* (2026), as Rafael — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/la-bola-negra.md)
- *Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente* (2026), Actor
- *La Tarara* (2026), Actor
- *To the Max* (2026), as Armando del Rey
- *Terra alta* (2025), series, Actor
- *Spellbound* (2024), as Chilo (voice)
- *Querer* (2024), series, as Aitor Gorosmendi
- *Zorro* (2024), series, as Diego de la Vega
- *Our Only Chance* (2022), series, as Diego Ulloa
- *1899* (2022), series, as Ángel
- *Josephine* (2021), as Sergio López Mirador
- *Dafne and the Rest* (2021), series, as Iñaki
- *Playa Negra* (2021), series, as Hugo · Executive Producer
- *Elite Short Stories: Nadia Guzmán* (2021), series, as Guzmán Nunier
- *Elite Short Stories: Guzmán Caye Rebe* (2021), series, as Guzmán Nunier
- *Caronte* (2020), series, as Javier Sáez Fragu
- *Elite* (2018), series, as Guzmán Nunier Osuna
- *Crime Wave* (2018), as Julen
- *Sabuesos* (2018), series, as Isaac
- *Inhibidos* (2017), series, as Toni
- *It's for Your Own Good* (2017), as Dani
- *Cuéntame cómo pasó* (2001), series, as Alpuente
- *Una cabeza en la pared*, as Beltrán

## Gallery

- ![Danna Paola and Miguel Bernardeau during an interview on the serie Élite, on September 23, 2018.](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-efbecae8ba35.png) Danna Paola and Miguel Bernardeau during an interview on the serie Élite, on September 23, 2018. — LA LATA, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Danna_Paola_and_Miguel_Bernardeau_during_an_interview_in_September_2018_01.png/1280px-Danna_Paola_and_Miguel_Bernardeau_during_an_interview_in_September_2018_01.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Danna Paola and Miguel Bernardeau during an interview on the serie Élite, on September 23, 2018.](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-27bddf078089.png) Danna Paola and Miguel Bernardeau during an interview on the serie Élite, on September 23, 2018. — LA LATA, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Danna_Paola_and_Miguel_Bernardeau_during_an_interview_in_September_2018_02.png/1280px-Danna_Paola_and_Miguel_Bernardeau_during_an_interview_in_September_2018_02.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miguel Bernardeau en the red carpet of the Goya Awards held in Granada in 2025](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-de2d7c444dd2.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau en the red carpet of the Goya Awards held in Granada in 2025 — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Goyas_2025_-_Miguel_Bernardeau.jpg/1280px-Goyas_2025_-_Miguel_Bernardeau.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miguel Bernardeau](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-f22e0846b22a.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Goyas_2025_-_Miguel_Bernardeau_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Goyas_2025_-_Miguel_Bernardeau_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miguel Bernardeau](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-57bf53135aa8.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau — Image via TMDB
- ![Miguel Bernardeau](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-3ed4d68c73fe.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau — Image via TMDB
- ![Miguel Bernardeau](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-b1db12409f2b.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau — Image via TMDB
- ![Miguel Bernardeau en the red carpet of the Goya Awards held in Granada in 2025](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-41db9408796b.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau en the red carpet of the Goya Awards held in Granada in 2025 — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Goyas_2025_-_Miguel_Bernardeau_%28cropped%29_3x4.jpg/1280px-Goyas_2025_-_Miguel_Bernardeau_%28cropped%29_3x4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miguel Bernardeau](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-7a0d67c7dd2e.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau — Image via TMDB
- ![Miguel Bernardeau](https://film.one/media/person/96054/gallery-14093508a677.jpg) Miguel Bernardeau — Image via TMDB

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