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name: "Rodrigo de la Serna"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rodrigo-de-la-serna"
fi1m_id: "rodrigo-de-la-serna"
imdb_id: "nm0209404"
tmdb_id: 18478
wikidata_id: "Q1703481"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 April 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T20:07:03.161807+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."
---

# Rodrigo de la Serna

## Identity

Rodrigo de la Serna

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rodrigo-de-la-serna
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rodrigo-de-la-serna
- **IMDb ID:** nm0209404
- **TMDB ID:** 18478
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1703481
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_de_la_Serna, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209404/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18478

Actor. Born 18 April 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 April 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **Active:** 2004–2017
- **Also known as:** Lionel Rodrigo de la Serna Chevalier, 로드리고 데라세르나, رودریگو د لا سرنا, 羅德里哥塞納
- **BAFTA Film Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2010s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_de_la_Serna, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209404/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18478

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Motorcycle Diaries*](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md) (77)
- **Netflix:** [*Money Heist*](https://film.one/tv/money-heist.md) (70)

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

## Fi1m on Rodrigo de la Serna

> Rodrigo de la Serna is an energetic actor whose warmth need not depend on making a character admirable. In *The Motorcycle Diaries*, we value the ease with which he makes a travelling companion matter without demanding the film to himself.

In *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), Rodrigo de la Serna’s Alberto Granado enjoys being in the company of Gael García Bernal’s Ernesto. The friendship has to be convincing before the journey can mean much, and de la Serna gives it the necessary ease. We warmed to him because the pleasure he takes in Ernesto’s company never feels like an instruction to admire either man. Walter Salles’s road film is good company, with an actor who understands how much that matters.

The performance brought international recognition, but it followed Argentine work including Ricardo in the television series *Okupas* (2000). He went on to play Claudio Tamburrini in *Chronicle of an Escape* (2006) and José in Francis Ford Coppola’s *Tetro* (2009). Playing Palermo in *Money Heist* from 2019 to 2021 brought further international prominence. He has often played flawed or troubled men, using humour alongside a strongly physical approach to performance.

In Salles’s film, that energy sits beside Bernal’s watchful seriousness without making the pair feel assembled to illustrate a contrast. Bernal leaves him room, and de la Serna makes Alberto someone whose company has value in itself. He does not have to keep announcing the importance of the friendship; we can see why these men would choose to travel together. That gives the encounters along the road a firmer basis, because there are already two people worth following before the film asks them to learn anything.

The reservation is Salles’s affection for young Guevara, which sometimes discourages the harder questions. The actors make the travelling friendship persuasive; they cannot make the film more searching about its subject. That is a reason to keep our praise proportionate, rather than ask de la Serna to answer for what the film chooses not to examine. Start with *The Motorcycle Diaries* for him, with that reservation about the film he helps make so agreeable.

## Biography

Rodrigo de la Serna is an Argentine actor. Born on 18 April 1976 in Buenos Aires, he began his career in the 1990s with roles in Argentine television series and films such as *Same Love, Same Rain* (1999).

He gained recognition for portraying Ricardo in the miniseries *Okupas* (2000). In 2004 he played Alberto Granado in the biopic *The Motorcycle Diaries*, for which he received the Silver Condor Award for Best Actor and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

De la Serna is also known for his role as Palermo in the Netflix series *Money Heist* (2017–2021). He has appeared in other films including *Tetro* (2009) and *Chronicle of an Escape* (2006), and works as a musician in a tango band.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Money Heist* (2017), Fi1m 70, as Palermo — [page](https://film.one/tv/money-heist.md)
- *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), Fi1m 77, as Alberto Granado — [page](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *My Friend Eva* (2025), as Álex
- *Los sin nombre* (2025), series, as Salazar
- *The Rescue: The Weight of the World* (2023), as Julio Levy
- *Furtive* (2020), as Pablo Silva
- *Yucatán* (2018), as Clayderman
- *Money Heist* (2017), series, as Palermo — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/money-heist.md)
- *Inseparables* (2016), as Tito
- *To Steal from a Thief* (2016), as 'Uruguayo'
- *Call Me Francis* (2015), as Jorge Mario Bergoglio da giovane
- *Road to La Paz* (2015), as Sebastian
- *Que lo parió (Inodoro Pereyra)* (2015), Actor
- *Tiempos compulsivos* (2012), series, as Esteban Soldeyra.
- *Mía* (2011), as Manuel
- *Before Opening Night* (2011), as Hernán
- *El Puntero* (2011), series, as José María Lombardo
- *The Crossing of the Andes* (2011), as José de San Martín
- *Boca de fresa* (2010), as Oscar
- *Alguien Te Mira* (2010), series, as Otec Pablo Penafiel
- *Tetro* (2009), as José
- *El torcán* (2009), as Fontana
- *Hermanos y detectives* (2006), series, as Franco Montero
- *Chronicle of an Escape* (2006), as Claudio Tamburrini
- *Botines* (2005), series, Actor
- *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), as Alberto Granado — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md)
- *Sol Negro* (2003), series, as Ramiro Bustos
- *Gallito ciego* (2001), as Facundo Di Paolo
- *Nuts for Love* (2000), as Armando
- *Okupas* (2000), series, as Ricardo
- *Tiempo final* (2000), series, Actor
- *Calientes* (2000), series, Actor
- *Same Love, Same Rain* (1999), as Micky
- *Cybersix* (1996), series, as José
- *The Moonman*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![La Presidenta junto al direcctor del Sistema Nacional de Medios, Tristan Bauer, y el actor Rodrigo de la Serna. (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-81fccd101dd1.jpg) La Presidenta junto al direcctor del Sistema Nacional de Medios, Tristan Bauer, y el actor Rodrigo de la Serna. (2009) — No mencionado, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Cristina_presenta_la_pel%C3%ADcula_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn.jpg/1280px-Cristina_presenta_la_pel%C3%ADcula_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miércoles 6 de diciembre de 2017 En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la 4ª Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Cine, Fénix.Diego Luna entrega:](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-56cd21e91257.jpg) Miércoles 6 de diciembre de 2017 En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la 4ª Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Cine, Fénix.Diego Luna entrega: — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Presentadores_Premio_F%C3%A9nix_Mejor_pel%C3%ADcula_2017.jpg/1280px-Presentadores_Premio_F%C3%A9nix_Mejor_pel%C3%ADcula_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la 4ª Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Cine, Fenix, previo a la ceremonia, nominados, conductores, pres (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-d5d460dc5d2c.jpg) En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la 4ª Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Cine, Fenix, previo a la ceremonia, nominados, conductores, pres (2017) — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Rodrigo_De_La_Serna_%28200x290%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la 4ª Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Cine, Fenix, previo a la ceremonia, nominados, conductores, pres (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-8121d0138103.jpg) En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se realizó la 4ª Entrega del Premio Iberoamericano de Cine, Fenix, previo a la ceremonia, nominados, conductores, pres (2017) — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Rodrigo_de_la_Serna-F%C3%A9nix_2017.jpg/1280px-Rodrigo_de_la_Serna-F%C3%A9nix_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rodrigo de la Serna](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-e762540ad001.jpg) Rodrigo de la Serna — Image via TMDB
- ![Rodrigo de la Serna](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-8678b4c3b5c8.jpg) Rodrigo de la Serna — Image via TMDB
- ![Rodrigo de la Serna](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-bee82b3f42ce.jpg) Rodrigo de la Serna — Image via TMDB
- ![Rodrigo de la Serna](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-79394daf35c7.jpg) Rodrigo de la Serna — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Rodrigo_de_la_Serna-F%C3%A9nix_2017_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Rodrigo de la Serna](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-db00ae788452.jpg) Rodrigo de la Serna — Image via TMDB
- ![Rodrigo de la Serna](https://film.one/media/person/98654/gallery-c2421ca7ab6f.jpg) Rodrigo de la Serna — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 2004: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (won)

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

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