Juan Fernández Mejías (born 1957), also known professionally simply as Juan Fernández, is a Spanish actor. While he has a decades-long career as stage actor, he is rather known to the public for supporting performances in film and television works.

Biography

Born in 1957 in

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. He had his debut in a feature film with a performance as 'Juan' ("a burly truck driver") in

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's 1999 drama '' Solas'', for which he earned the Actors Union Award for Best Film Performance in a Minor Role. Since then, his early filmography includes supporting appearances in feature films such as '' El corazón del guerrero'' (2000), ''

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'' (2001), '' Lucía y el sexo'' (2001), ''El alquimista impaciente'' (2002), ''

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'' (2002), ''

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'' (2002), ''Atraco a las tres... y media'' (2003) and ' (2003), whereas he also performed in guest roles in television series such as ''Periodistas'', ''

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'', ''Policías'', , ''

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'' and as well as the TV movies ''Jugar a matar'' and '. Later in his career Fernández performed a recurring role in ''

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'' (Tomás aka "Castresana") in 2007, and starred in the TV series '' Tierra de lobos'', aired on Telecinco from 2010 to 2014, playing the authoritarian landlord Antonio Lobo, the main antagonist throughout the series. He performed another antagonist role in the first two parts of the popular series ''

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'', playing Colonel Prieto, the CNI representative seeking to liberate Alison Parker from the Royal Mint. In 2017, he joined the cast of ''

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'' to play Rodrigo Tuñón, a veteran of the Spanish civil war for the Rebel faction. Fernández landed supporting roles in two 2020 historical drama television series, '' Inés del alma mía'' and ''El Cid'', playing in both cases the grandfather of the lead character (

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and

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Filmography

;Television

References

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