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My Take
Raúl Arévalo earns my admiration because he refused to stay in one lane. Winning the 2009 Goya for Best Supporting Actor would satisfy most performers, but he pushed into directing and took home a Feroz for it too. A grafter from Móstoles, he has been a quietly reliable presence across some of Spanish cinema's sharpest work, and his charge in tense pieces like Marshland is unforgettable. Because he knows the actor's craft from the inside, I suspect he gets the best out of his own casts when he steps behind the camera. I respect anyone this hungry to widen what they can do.
Overview
Raúl Arévalo Zorzo (born 22 November 1979) is a Spanish actor and director. He has featured in films such as Dark Blue Almost Black (2006), Seven Billiard Tables (2007), The Blind Sunflowers (2008), Fat People (2009), Cousinhood (2011), I'm So Excited (2013), Marshland (2014), and The Europeans (2020) and television series such as La embajada (2016) and Riot Police (2020).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Raúl Arévalo
- Name (Japanese)
- ラウール・アレバロ
- Reading
- らうーる・あればろ
- Born
- November 22, 1979 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Goat
- Origin
- Móstoles, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film director / television actor / screenwriter / director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2009 Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Premio Feroz for Best Director
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.