Juan Diego Botto
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Born | Juan Diego Botto Rota 29 August 1975 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Relatives | María Botto (sister) |
Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor.
Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain together with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appearances as a child actor, he landed a breakthrough role in the 1995 film Stories from the Kronen. He has since starred in films such as Martín (Hache) (1997), Plenilune (2000), Broken Silence (2001), Obaba (2005), Go Away from Me (2006) and Ismael (2013). He has also worked as a stage director and playwright and debuted as a film director with 2022 social drama-thriller On the Fringe.
Early life
Juan Diego Botto Rota was born 29 August 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, son of
He attended high school in New York and lived there for two years.[6]
Career
Botto studied acting at the school founded by his mother in Madrid, which later became the Center for New Creators, based in the Sala Mirador. Later he moved to New York to continue his studies under the direction of Uta Hagen.[7]
His first film appearance was at the age of eight in the film Game of Power, by Fausto Canel (1983).[8]
During the 1980s he played small roles in movies and appeared in the 1990 American television series Zorro. In 1992 he landed a role as the son of Christopher Columbus in the film 1492: Conquest of Paradise, by Ridley Scott. Three years later he starred in the film Stories from the Kronen, by Montxo Armendáriz, in which he achieved great success and popularity.[9]
His role in the 1999 film
His career has included films such as
In his professional career he has always combined cinema and theater. He is the coordinator of the Sala Mirador theater.[14]
In 2005 he directed the play El privilegio de ser perro (The Privilege of Being a Dog), written by himself, about the tough life immigrants are subjected to while trying to sneak into and live in a new country. In December 2008, and after a tour throughout Spain, Hamlet premiered at the Theatre of María Guerrero in Madrid, directed and starring him, along with José Coronado, Marta Etura and Nieve de Medina, among others. He is also the author of the plays Despertares y celebraciones, directed by his mother Cristina Rota, and The Last Night of the Plague, directed by Víctor García León.[15][16][17]
In 2012 he wrote the play Un trozo invisible de este mundo. The text, which deals with immigration and exile, mixes drama and humor with commitment. In it he acted, directed by Sergio Peris-Mencheta. In 2014 Botto won the Max Theater Awards for Best Actor and Best New Author for this work, which also won the Max Award for Best Play of the year.[18][19]
He has received numerous cinematographic distinctions. He has been nominated for the Goya Awards four times for his appearances in the films Historias del Kronen, Plenilunio (2000), Vete de mí (2006) and Ismael (2013). His career in the theater has also made him the winner of a Fotograma de Plata Award for best theater actor in 2008 for his participation in Hamlet, as well as two Max Awards and a Cosmopolitan Award.[20][18]
In the 2010s he participated in the films Silencio en la Nieve (2012), by Gerardo Herrero, Ismael (2013), by Marcelo Piñeyro, Hablar (2015), by Joaquín Oristrell, and La ignorancia de la sangre (2014), by Manuel Gómez Pereira.[21][22][23][24]
From 2016 to 2017, Botto starred in the
In January 2017 he worked on the suspense series Pulsaciones, on Antena 3, where he played Rodrigo Ugarte.[29]
He played General Presidente Silvio Luna in the 2021 DC Extended Universe film The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn.[30]
His debut as feature film director is the film On the Fringe,[31][32] selected for screening at the 79th Venice International Film Festival's Horizons section.[33]
Personal life
Botto currently lives in Madrid with his wife, Spanish journalist and writer
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1984 |
Los motivos de Berta (Berta's Motives) | Luisito | ||
1986 | Teo el pelirrojo | Santiago | [38] | |
1989 | Si te dicen que caí (If They Tell You I Fell) | [39] | ||
1990 | Ovejas negras | Adolfo | Older version of Adolfo is portrayed by Miguel Rellán | [40] |
1991 | Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento | [41] | ||
1992 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | [39] | ||
1995 | Historias del Kronen (Stories from the Kronen) | Carlos | [42] | |
1996 | La sal de la vida | Charly | [43] | |
1996 | Éxtasis | Aspirante | [44] | |
1996 | La Celestina | Calisto | [45] | |
1996 | Más que amor, frenesí (Not Love, Just Frenzy) | Carlos | [46] | |
1997 | En brazos de la mujer madura (In Praise of Older Women) | Andrés | [47] | |
1997 | Martín (Hache) | Hache | [48] | |
1998 | Bin ich schön? (Am I Beautiful) |
[49] | ||
1999 | Novios (Couples) | Arturito | [50] | |
1999 | Sobreviviré (I Will Survive) | Iñaki | [51] | |
1999 | Ave María | Miguel | [52] | |
2000 | Plenilunio (Plenilune) | El asesino | [53] | |
2000 | Asfalto | Charly | [54] | |
2001 | Silencio roto (Broken Silence) | Manuel | [55] | |
2002 | Trece campanadas | Jacobo | [56] | |
2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Sucre | [57] | |
2002 | El caballero Don Quijote (Don Quixote, Knight Errant) | Tosilos | [58] | |
2003 | Los abajo firmantes (With George Bush on My Mind) | Jorge | Also a co-writer | [59] |
2004 | Roma | Manuel Cueto / Joaquín "Joaco" Góñez | Older version of Góñez portrayed by José Sacristán | [60][61][62] |
2005 | Obaba | Miguel | [63] | |
2005 | La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat) | Amadito García Guerrero | [64] | |
2006 | Vete de mí (Go Away from Me) | Guillermo | [65] | |
2006 | Va a ser que nadie es perfecto |
Bit part | [66] | |
2007 | El Greco | Fernando Niño de Guevara | [67] | |
2007 | Bordertown | Marco A. Salamanca | [68] | |
2008 | La mujer del anarquista (The Anarchist's Wife) | Justo Álvarez Calderón | [69] | |
n/a |
King Conqueror | Unfinished film | [70][71] | |
2009 | Las viudas de los jueves (The Widows of Thursdays) | Gustavo | [72] | |
2010 | Todo lo que tú quieras (Anything You Want) | Leo | [73] | |
2012 | Silencio en la nieve (Frozen Silence) | Arturo Andrade | [74][75] | |
2012 | O Theós agapáei to chaviári (God Loves Caviar) | Count Lefentarios | [76] | |
2012 | Dictado (Childish Games) | Daniel | [77] | |
2013 | Ismael | Luis | [78] | |
2014 | La ignorancia de la sangre (The Ignorance of Blood) | Javier Falcón | [79] | |
2017 | Los comensales | [80] | ||
2020 | Rocambola | Saeta | [81] | |
2020 | Los europeos (The Europeans) | Antonio | [82] | |
2021 | The Suicide Squad | Silvio Luna | [83] | |
2022 | En los márgenes (On the Fringe) | Manuel | Also director and co-writer | [84] |
2022 | No mires a los ojos (Staring at Strangers) | Sergio O'Kane | [85] |
Television
- Zorro as Felipe (Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro's mute servant)
- Lucrecia (1996)
- Augustus (2003, TV movie)
- Good Behavior (2016–2017, TV series)
- Pulsaciones (2017, TV series)
- Instinto (2019)[86]
- White Lines (2020)
- Tales of the Lockdown ( TV series) (2020)[87]
- Todos mienten (2021, TV series)
- No me gusta conducir (2022, TV series) as Pablo Lopetegui[88]
Music videos
- Somos Anormales (2017, music video)[89]
Director
- "Doble moral" (segment of the collective film ¡Hay motivo! ; 2004)[90]
- "Gourmet" (episode of the streaming series Relatos con-fin-a-dos ; 2020)[91]
- En los márgenes (2022)[92][93]
Theater
- El privilegio de ser perro (2008)
- El ultimo dia de la peste (2010)
- Invisibles (2014)
- Una noche Sin Luna (2021)
Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | 10th Goya Awards | Best New Actor | Stories from the Kronen | Nominated | [94] |
2001 | 15th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Plenilunio | Nominated | [95] |
2007 | 21st Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Go Away from Me | Nominated | [96] |
16th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role | Nominated | [97][98] | ||
2010 | 19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Stage Actor in a Leading Role | Hamlet | Nominated | [99][100] |
2013 | 22nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Stage Actor in a Leading Role | Un trozo invisible de este mundo | Nominated | [101][102] |
2014 | 28th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Ismael | Nominated | [103] |
17th Max Awards | Best New Playwright | Un trozo invisible del mundo | Won | [104] | |
Best Actor | Won | ||||
2021 | 26th Forqué Awards | Best Film Actor | The Europeans | Nominated | [105][106] |
8th Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actor (film) | Won | [107] | ||
35th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | [108] | ||
National Theater Prize | n/a |
Won | [39] | ||
2022 | 30th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Stage Actor in a Leading Role | Una noche sin luna | Won | [109] |
25th Max Awards | Best Actor | Won | [110][111] | ||
2023 | 10th Feroz Awards | Best Actor in a TV Series | I Don't Like Driving | Won | [112] |
37th Goya Awards | Best New Director | On the Fringe | Nominated | [113] |
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External links
- Juan Diego Botto at IMDb
- Juan Diego Botto at Cinenacional.com (in Spanish) (archive)
- The Unofficial Juan Diego Botto Fan Site