Biography
Jorge de Juan is a renowned Spanish actor, producer, and director.
He graduated as an actor at the Spanish Royal School of Dramatic Art and at the British Theatre Association (Direction and Production). He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain and the Academy of Performing Arts.
As an actor, he has appeared in more than 20 plays, and more than 40 films and television series, having starred in more than 30 projects. Some of the titles include: (Theatre) Blood Wedding, Caligula, Oedipus Rex, Macbeth, The City and the Dogs, Richard III, Motor, The 39 Steps, The Woman in Black, etc. (Feature films): Open your eyes, The Bicycles Are for the Summer, The Best of Times, Silence in the Snow, Talk of Angels, One of the Hollywood Ten, Beltenebros, Grimsby, The Builders of the Alhambra, Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury, etc.
As a director and producer, he has worked on numerous productions, including: The Public, The Grain Store, End of the rainbow; Dracula; The 39 Steps, The Woman in Black, Blood Wedding, The Divorce Judge, The House of Bernarda Alba and Yerma, all with great critical and public success both in Spain and in the United Kingdom.
As a producer, apart from the productions made in Spain, he has created the Cervantes Theatre in London, the first Spanish-speaking theatre in the history of British theater, headquarters of the Spanish Theatre Company of which he is the founder.
Jorge de Juan was awarded the Francisco Rabal Film award for his starring role in El Mejor de los Tiempos by Felipe Vega, (winner of the San Sebastián International Film Festival). Furthermore, he received the Billboard Turia Theatre Award in 1998 for his performance in The Woman in Black. His film Bala Perdida, starring David Carradine, in 2007, received the Best Film and Best Soundtrack awards at the Mostra de Valencia Film Awards. Also won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montréal World Film Festival with the Serbian film Kordon that he co-produced.
He will soon appear as a leading role in a new TV series for RTVE "Asuntos internos" and "La Palma" for Netflix.
