Koldo Olabarri

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Koldo Olabarri
Born
Koldo Abando Olabarri

(1992-11-19) 19 November 1992 (age 31)
Bilbao, Spain
Citizenship Spain
Alma mater Ánima Eskola School of Drama (BA)
Occupationactor
Years active2010-present
Notable work Official Competition
Awards Buero Vallejo Award (2011, 2013)

Koldo Abando Olabarri (born 19 November 1992, Bilbao, Spain), known as Koldo Olabarri, [1] is a Spanish film, theater and television actor. [2]

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Life and career

He studied, trained and graduated in theatre, drama and acting (BA) in Ánima Eskola School of Drama with David Valdelvira, Marina Shimanskaya and Algis Arlauskas, training as a method actor, under the Stanislavsky-Vakhtangov-M.Chekhov-Meyerhold methodology (Russian method), following the methodologies of the Russian classical school. [3] There he coincided with actress Ainhoa Artetxe, with whom he studied. He also trained with Agentinian stage director and drama teacher Juan Carlos Corazza. [4]

Since 2010, he has worked in more than a dozen theatrical productions, more than a dozen television series and more than a dozen movies. In 2010, he performed the play Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira and staged at the Campos Elíseos Theatre. The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2011), in the 8th edition of the awards. [5] In 2012 he participated in the production An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge, a musical comedy written and directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira and staged at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, along with Ainhoa Artetxe among other members of the cast. The production was very well received and was taken to different theaters in 2012 and 2013. [6] [7] [8] The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2013), in the 10th edition of the awards. [9] He was part of the Ánima Youth Theatre.

In 2016 he joined the young theater company of Pabellón 6 in Bilbao, with which he staged the play Romeo and Juliet directed by Ramón Barea, with Ainhoa Artetxe and Nerea Elizalde also among the cast. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

In the year 2021 he was part of the cast of the comedy film Official Competition , along with Spanish actors Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, directed by Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, premiered t the 78th Venice International Film Festival and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. [15] [16] [17] [18]

In 2020 he was part of the cast of the theater production of the Arriaga Theatre "Erresuma/Kingdom/Reino", directed by Calixto Bieito, playing Henry VI, a play based on the main tragedies of William Shakespeare. [19] [20] [21] [22]

In 2022 he was part of the cast of the Netflix original series Intimacy , along with Itziar Ituño, Patricia López Arnaiz, Emma Suárez, Verónica Echegui and Ana Wagener. [23] [3]

In 2020, he had to be admitted to the hospital due to severe COVID-19. [24] [25]

Filmography

Television

Film

Stage

Awards and nominations

Buero Vallejo Awards

YearCategoryFor workResultRef.
2013Best theatrical/stage productionAn ordinary day at the Moulin RougeWon
2011Best theatrical/stage production Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Won [5]

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