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Born | Santiago Segura Silva 17 July 1965 Madrid, Spain |
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Years active | 1989–present |
Santiago Segura Silva (born 17 July 1965) is a Spanish filmmaker and actor. He also worked to a lesser extent as a television presenter, voice actor and comic book writer, as well as being a collector of original comic books. [1]
At 12, he began making films with a Super-8 camera, and, after a recommendation from Fernando Trueba, began to make films in 35 mm, funded by his appearances in TV game shows.
He earned early recognition for his performance as a metalhead in 1995 film The Day of the Beast (billed as a "satanic comedy"), [2] which won him the Goya Award for Best New Actor.
Great success would come with his directorial feature debut, 1998 dark action comedy and box-office hit Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law , in which he stars as José Luis Torrente, a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and fascist former police cop. [3] The film, that won Segura the Goya Award for Best New Director, was followed by four sequels ( Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella , Torrente 3: El protector , Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis and Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas ) that made the highest-grossing Spanish film series.
He then went on to direct films with a lighter tone, likewise churning domestic box-office hits with children comedies such as Father There Is Only One (and its two sequels) and The Kids Are Alright . [4]
Santiago Segura Silva was born in Madrid on 17 July 1965. [5] He was raised in the city's district of Carabanchel. [6] After studying Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, [7] he decided to pursue a career as a filmmaker and in 1989 he directed the short Relatos de medianoche with a budget of 7000 pesetas (around US$50). In 1992 he went on to direct his first professional short Evilio, followed with Perturbado in 1993.
Segura is a recurring actor in the works of directors Alex de la Iglesia and Guillermo del Toro.
In 1993, he had a small role in Alex de la Iglesia's film Acción mutante . Two years later, he starred in El día de la Bestia , from the same director and that role made him famous in Spain. [8] [9] In 1998 he directed the film that brought him to stardom, Torrente: El brazo tonto de la ley (1998), in which he also acted as the lead character José Luis Torrente, a sleazy crime-fighter. [10] Its popularity led to a sequel ( Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella ) [11] and a computer game (Torrente: El juego). [12]
Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella made €22,838,500 at the Spanish box office, becoming the highest grossing Spanish film of all time. [13] Torrente 3: El protector , the third film in the series, was released in September 2005. Its advertising campaign parodied Batman Begins , using the phrase "Torrente Acabado" ("Torrente Finished"). Although he declared Torrente 3: El protector would be the last of the Torrente series, Torrente 4 was released in 2011. [14] In 2010, he played the title role in El gran Vázquez , [15] based on the life of the legendary cartoonist/wastrel Manuel Vázquez Gallego. [16]
In 2014 he released Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas with Alec Baldwin as guest star, [17] and was the top release of 2014 in Spain. [18] [19]
He has since made his way into American culture by making appearances in movies such as Pacific Rim , Hellboy , Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Blade II (all of them by Del Toro), Perdita Durango (by De la Iglesia), Jack and Jill and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London .
He has also dubbed video games to Spanish, like Jack Black's role in Brütal Legend . [20]
Because of his success, Santiago Segura has become a producer. [21] He owns Amiguetes Entertainment company, he is associated with the theater in Estación del Norte in Madrid, [22] and has produced Promedio rojo (2004) (featuring Nicolás López) [23] [24] and Aquí mando yo... y punto com. [25]
In 2018 he appeared in the third season of MasterChef Celebrity . [26] He was the 10th contestant to be eliminated. [27]
Year | Work | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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1998 | Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law) | Yes | Yes | No | [28] | |
2001 | Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella) | Yes | Yes | Uncredited executive producer | [29] | |
2005 | Torrente 3: El protector | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | Also uncredited executive producer | [30] |
2011 | Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | [31] | |
2014 | Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | [32] | |
2018 | Sin rodeos (Empowered) | Yes | Yes | Yes | [33] | |
2019 | Padre no hay más que uno (Father There Is Only One) | Yes | Yes | Yes | [34] | |
2020 | Padre no hay más que uno 2 (Father There Is Only One 2) | Yes | Yes | Yes | [35] | |
2021 | ¡A todo tren! Destino Asturias (The Kids Are Alright) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
2022 | Padre no hay más que uno 3 (Father There Is Only One 3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
A todo tren 2: Sí, les ha pasado otra vez (The Kids Are Alright 2) | No | Yes | Yes | [36] | ||
2023 | Vacaciones de verano (Summer Vacation) | Yes | Yes | Yes | [37] | |
2024 | Padre no hay más que uno 4 (Father There Is Only One 4) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Year | Work | Role |
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2001 | I Murder Seriously | Co-producer |
2002 | Promedio rojo | Producer |
2003 | Una de zombies | |
2004 | The Amazing World of Borjamari and Pocholo | |
2006 | Dance Machine | |
2010 | Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
2016 | Three-60 |
Year | Work | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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1989 | Relatos de la medianoche | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer and editor |
1992 | Evilio | Yes | Yes | No | |
1993 | Perturbado | Yes | Yes | No | |
1995 | Evilio vuelve (el purificador) | Yes | Yes | No | |
2015 | Consumo Responsable (Nivel 7) | Yes | Yes | No | Advertising short |
Associate producer
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | 10th Goya Awards | Best New Actor | The Day of the Beast | Won | [40] |
1999 | 13th Goya Awards | Best New Director | Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law | Won | [41] |
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law is a 1998 Spanish dark comedy film written and directed by Santiago Segura, who stars as José Luis Torrente, a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and fascist former police agent. Characterized by its deliberately cartoonish humor, it proved to be a massive box office hit, and Torrente became part of Spanish contemporary popular culture.
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