Luis Tosar
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Luis Tosar is a Galician
Galician people
The Galicians are an ethnic group, a nationality whose historical homeland is Galicia in north-western Spain. Most Galicians are bilingual, speaking both their historic language, Galician, and Castilian Spanish.-Political and administrative divisions:...

 actor and musician.

Biography

Born in Lugo
Lugo
Lugo is a city in northwestern Spain, in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 97,635 in 2010, which makes is the fourth most populated city in Galicia.-Population:...

, Galicia, Spain
Spain
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 on 13th October 1971, he is best known internationally for his villain role in Miami Vice
Miami Vice (film)
Miami Vice is a 2006 American crime drama film about two Miami police detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann...

and the role in the upcoming horror film Flatmate, which is directed by Jaume Balagueró
Jaume Balagueró
Jaume Balagueró i Bernat , is a Spanish film director widely known for his horror films.- Life :Jaume Balagueró was born in Lleida, and grew up in Barcelona. He studied communications and photography at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1991 with a degree in Communication Sciences...

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Selected filmography

  • 1998 Atilano Presidente by Santiago Aguilar & Luis Guridi
  • 1999 Flores de otro mundo by Icíar Bollaín
    Icíar Bollaín
    Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...

  • 1999 Celos
    Celos
    Jealousy is a 1999 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, Aitana Sanchez-Gijón, Maria Botto and Luis Tosar.-Plot:...

    by Vicente Aranda
    Vicente Aranda
    Vicente Aranda , is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Due to his refined and personal style, he is one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founded member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the...

  • 2000 El corazón del guerrero by Daniel Monzón
  • 2000 Sé quien eres by Patricia Ferreira
  • 2000 Leo
    Leo (film)
    Leo is a 2000 Spanish film, written and directed by José Luis Borau and starring Icíar Bollaín and Javier Batanero. It was nominated for six Goya Awards in 2001, and won the award for Best Director....

    by José Luis Borau
    José Luis Borau
    José Luis Borau Moradell is a Spanish producer, screenwriter, writer, and film director. He has acted in some films.He won Goya Award as Best Director in 2000 for Leo....

  • 2000 La comunidad
    La comunidad (film)
    La comunidad is a 2000 Spanish black comedy film directed by Álex de la Iglesia.-Plot:Carmen Maura plays a real estate agent who discovers a fortune in the apartment of a dead man...

    by Álex de la Iglesia
    Álex de la Iglesia
    Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.- Biography :...

  • 2000 Besos para todos by Jaime Chávarri
    Jaime Chávarri
    Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director. His mother María de la Mora y Maura was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura....

  • 2000 El váter susurra by Rafael Calvo
  • 2001 Lena by Gonzalo Tapia
  • 2001 Sin noticias de Dios by Agustín Díaz Yanes
    Agustín Díaz Yanes
    Agustín Díaz Yanes is a Spanish Goya Awards winner screenwriter and film director.- Screenwriter :* Al límite * Belmonte * Demasiado corazón * A solas contigo * Baton Rouge * Barrios altos...

  • 2001 Un asunto pendiente by José Manuel Quiroga
  • 2002 Semana Santa by Pepe Danquart
  • 2002 Los lunes al sol
    Los lunes al sol
    Mondays in the Sun is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem. The film depicts the degrading effects of unemployment on a group of men left jobless by the closure of the shipyards in Vigo, Galicia.-Plot:...

    by Fernando León de Aranoa
    Fernando León de Aranoa
    Fernando León de Aranoa is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was noted for always saying his greatest work wouldn't come from his hands or mind but from his name. A new Fernando Leon of the 21st century would detail this masterpiece...

  • 2002 Trece campanadas by Xavier Villaverde
  • 2003 El lápiz del carpintero by Antón Reixa
  • 2003 El regalo de Silvia by Dionisio Pérez
  • 2003 Te doy mis ojos
    Te doy mis ojos
    Take My Eyes is a 2003 Spanish romantic drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín, starring Laia Marull and Luis Tosar. Critically acclaimed for its unclichéd treatment of domestic violence, it won seven Goya Awards in 2004, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress...

    by Icíar Bollaín
    Icíar Bollaín
    Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...

  • 2003 La flaqueza del bolchevique by Manuel Martín Cuenca
  • 2003 La vida que te espera by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film Habla, mudita was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Camada negra at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival...

  • 2004 Inconscientes
    Inconscientes
    Inconscientes is a 2004 Spanish period comedy directed by Joaquín Oristrell. It stars Leonor Watling and Luis Tosar. The plot follows the pregnant wife of a renowned Freudian psychiatrist who enlists the help of her admiring brother-in-law to uncover the elaborate mystery of why her husband ran...

    by Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell
    Joaquín Oristrell is a Catalan film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with -Selected filmography:*El próximo oriente *Va a ser que nadie es perfecto...

  • 2005 La noche del Hermano
  • 2005 Aupa Etxebeste! by Asier Altuna & Telmo Esnal
  • 2006 Miami Vice
    Miami Vice (film)
    Miami Vice is a 2006 American crime drama film about two Miami police detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann...

    by Michael Mann
  • 2006 Cargo
    Cargo (2006 film)
    Cargo is a 2006 thriller film. It was directed by Clive Gordon, produced by Andrea Calderwood and Juan Gordon, and written by Paul Laverty...

    by Clive Gordon
  • 2006 Hotel Tívoli by Antón Reixa
  • 2007 Las vidas de Celia by Antonio Chavarrías.
  • 2007 Casual Day by Max Lemcke
  • 2008 La noche que dejó de llover by Alfonso Zarauza
  • 2009 Celda 211
    Cell 211
    Cell 211 is a 2009 Spanish prison film directed by Daniel Monzón, starring Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann and Antonio Resines.- Plot :Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife, Elena, at home. During his...

    by Daniel Monzón
  • 2009 The Limits of Control
    The Limits of Control
    -Cultural references mentioned in the dialogue:* Suspicion by Alfred Hitchcock* Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky* The Lady from Shanghai by Orson Welles* La Vie de Bohème by Aki Kaurismäki* La vida no vale nada by Rogelio A...

    by Jim Jarmusch
    Jim Jarmusch
    James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...

  • 2010 Even the rain
    Even the Rain
    Even the Rain is a 2010 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín about Spanish director Sebastián and executive producer Costa who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film depicting Christopher Columbus’s conquest...

    by Icíar Bollaín
    Icíar Bollaín
    Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...

  • 2011 Crebinsky by Enrique Otero
  • 2011 Sleep Tight
  • 2011 Mientras duermes
  • 2012 Galaicus

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