Israel Elejalde

Israel Elejalde (born 1973) is a Spanish actor as well as a theatre director. Primarily a stage actor with television and film incursions, he had a breakthrough film performance with his role in the 2014 film Magical Girl, which earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor.

Israel Elejalde
(August 2017)
Born1973
Madrid, Spain
Occupations
  • Actor
  • theatre director

Biography

Born in 1973 in Villaverde, Madrid, Elejalde's stage debut took place at the Juan de Villanueva High School in Orcasitas.[1] He earned a licentiate degree in Political Science while training as an actor at William Layton's lab.[1] He further trained at the Teatro de La Abadía under José Luis Gómez and studied stage direction at the RESAD.[2][1]

Some of his most important stage credits include those in Veraneantes, La función por hacer, and Misántropo.[2] Primarily an actor, he also writes and directs.[3] He was in a relationship with actress Bárbara Lennie, along with whom he performed in Magical Girl and different stage plays.[4][2][5][6]

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role NotesRef
2013Gente en sitios[2]
2014 Magical Girl Alfredo [4]
2014 El gran salto adelante Andrés [7]
2015 Sicarivs: La noche y el silencio Néstor [8]
2016 El hombre de las mil caras (Smoke & Mirrors) González [9]
2017Plan de fuga (Getaway Plan)[10]
2021 Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) Arturo Buendía [11]
2022EdénVictor[12]
Television
Year Title Role NotesRef
2006–10 Cuéntame cómo pasó Raúl [13]
2009 Águila Roja Capitán Rodrigo Recurring [13]
2010–11 Amar en tiempos revueltos Matías Salazar Main. Introduced in Season 6 [14]
2015 Carlos, rey emperador Juan Padilla Recurring. 6 episodes [13]
2016 Bajo sospecha Gorka Montero Main. Introduced in Season 2 [15]
2017–18 Traición Víctor Ayala Main [16]
2019 45 revoluciones (45rpm) Pedro Zabala Main. Leading antagonist throughout the series [17]
2020 Veneno Pepe Navarro Recurring.
Real-life Pepe Navarro performs a cameo as security guard asking Elejalde to leave		 [18]
2021 Ana Tramel. El juego (ANA. all in) Teniente Moncada Main [19]

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
200415th Critical Eye AwardsTheatre AwardWon[20]
201215th Max AwardsBest Leading ActorVeraneantesNominated[6]
201529th Goya AwardsBest New ActorMagical GirlNominated[21]

References
  1. Aguilar, Andrea (22 August 2014). "En constante movimiento". Babelia (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  2. "Israel Elejalde: "Ambiciono poder seguir eligiendo lo que quiero hacer". Fotogramas (in Spanish). 30 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  3. Vila, José-Miguel (17 January 2018). "Israel Elejalde: "Broadway está lleno de enormes mierdas"". Diario Crítico.
  4. Iglesias, Eulàlia (17 October 2014). "La maldición de los deseos cumplidos". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  5. López Palacios, Íñigo (13 December 2017). "Bárbara Lennie: "Estoy seca, no puedo más"". Icon (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  6. TorresIsrael Elejalde: “Tu dolor es lo que finalmente te hace artista”, Rosana (15 February 2021). "Los premios Max apuestan por el rigor del nuevo teatro". El País.
  7. Rivera, Alfonso (5 March 2015). "El gran salto adelante: España, un país junto al abismo". Cineuropa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  8. "'Sicarivs: la noche y el silencio'". Aisge (in Spanish). 13 May 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  9. Sánchez Llobera, Francesc (2016). "Paesa: El hombre de las mil caras". Filmhistoria (in Spanish). Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. 26 (2): 91. ISSN 2014-668X. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  10. Hernández Luján, Raquel (1 May 2017). "Plan de fuga – Crítica del thriller criminal de Iñaki Dorronsoro". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  11. Medina, Marta (1 September 2021). "Las 'Madres paralelas' de Almodóvar abren Venecia: un drama de sangre y memoria algo desbaratado". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  12. Rivera, Alfonso (14 April 2022). "Estefanía Cortés debuta con Edén, "amadrinada" por Marta Nieto". Cineuropa.
  13. "El nuevo 'Chico Almodóvar' Las 'relaciones 'paralelas' de Israel Elejalde: De Penélope Cruz a Maribel Verdú". rtve (in Spanish). 5 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  14. "Revolución en "Amar en tiempos revueltos" con 16 caras nuevas". Vertele! (in Spanish). eldiario.es. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  15. "'Bajo sospecha': Todos los fichajes de la segunda temporada". Fotogramas (in Spanish). 22 October 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  16. Baro, Enrique (20 November 2017). "Quién es quién en 'Traición', el drama familiar de Ana Belén". Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  17. García Higueras, Laura (8 April 2019). "Israel Elejalde ('45 revoluciones'): "En los 60 había gente que intentaba que se respirara de otra manera en España"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  18. Palenzuela, Fernando S. (4 October 2020). "'Veneno' Capítulo 5: El inesperado cameo de Pepe Navarro con guiño nostálgico al fin de una etapa". FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  19. Dios, Marisa de (20 September 2021). "'Ana Tramel. El juego', la serie de TVE-1 que hace reflexionar sobre la ludopatía". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  20. Cruz, Juan (13 July 2015). "Israel Elejalde: "Tu dolor es lo que finalmente te hace artista"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  21. Zamora, Andrea (7 February 2015). "'La isla mínima', vencedora de los Premios Goya 2015". SensaCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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