Roberto Martínez Felipe (born 1 January 1970), better known as Roberto Álamo, is a Spanish actor who has appeared in more than fifty films since 1996. Álamo won the

Goya Award for Best Actor The Goya Award for Best Actor (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación masculina protagonista'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. Actors that won or were nominated for this category ha ...

for his performance as Javier Alfaro in '' May God Save Us'' (2016).

Life and career

Roberto Martínez Felipe was born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

in 1970. He developed an interest in cinema at a young age after watching

Jack Lemmon John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, he was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in comedy-drama films. He received num ...

in '' Days of Wine and Roses''. He trained at the Cristina Rota acting school and was a member of theatre company . He made his feature film debut in '' The Ugliest Woman in the World'' (1999). The theatre play ''Urtain'' marked a turning point in his career. Álamo starred from 2008 to 2010 in the aforementioned play as the Basque boxer José Manuel Urtain, winning a Max Award for Best Actor for his performance. His portrayal of Alfaro, a violent police inspector under the spotlight of their superiors and colleagues chasing a rapist and murderer of elderly women, in

Rodrigo Sorogoyen Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo (born 16 September 1981) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. After co-helming the sketch comedy film '' 8 Dates'' with Peris Romano in 2008, Sorogoyen has directed the features ''Stockholm'' (2013), '' May God ...

's thriller film '' May God Save Us'' (2016) won him the

Selected filmography

Television

Accolades

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alamo, Roberto 1970 births Living people Spanish male film actors 21st-century Spanish male actors Spanish male television actors Spanish male stage actors Male actors from Madrid