Eduard Fernández
Eduard Fernández Serrano (born 25 August 1964) is a Spanish actor from Barcelona, Catalonia. He trained as a mime at Barcelona’s Institut del Teatre and even performed on the streets. He spent years in theatre with the company Els Joglars and later moved into film and television. He has a daughter, Greta Fernández, who is also an actress, from a long relationship with writer Esmeralda Berbel.
Fernández made his film debut at age 30 in Souvenir (1994). His breakthrough came with the thriller Washington Wolves (1999), which earned him a Goya nomination for Best New Actor. He won the Goya Award for Best Actor for Fausto 5.0 (2001), in which he played Santos Vella.
In 2016, he won the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for Smoke & Mirrors, where he portrayed the spy Francisco Paesa. In While at War (2019), he played Millán Astray and won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in A Thief’s Daughter with his daughter Greta.
In 2021, Fernández appeared as Òscar Camps in Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea. In 2022, he played the hospital director Samuel Alvar in God’s Crooked Lines. He has said in interviews that his character is a bit misogynistic with a big ego.
In 2024, he took two major roles: Manolo Vital in The 47 and Enric Marco in Marco, the Invented Truth. For these performances he won both the Gaudí and the Goya Awards for Best Leading Actor, and he received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. That year he also released El otro, his directorial debut, a short film shown at Seminci.
In 2025, he received Spain’s National Cinematography Prize for his career and for two standout performances in 2024.
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