Imanol Arias

Imanol Arias
Imanol Arias in 2014
Born Manuel María Arias Domínguez
(1956-04-26) 26 April 1956
Riaño (León), Spain
Years active 1976 -

Manuel María Arias Domínguez (26 April 1956 in Riaño, León, Spain) better known as Imanol Arias, is a Spanish actor and film director.

Career

Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group performing in the Basque Country of northern Spain. He debuted on TV in 1976 and his first film was Humberto Solás's Cecilia (1982). In 1987 he won the prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the role of Eleuterio Sánchez in El Lute: Run for Your Life (El Lute: camina o revienta, 1987).

Since 1976 he has appeared in some 70 different films and TV programmes.

In 1996 he made his film debut as director in Un asunto privado.[1] The only other work he directed was a TV programme in 1989.

Currently, he appears in the TVE most rewarded series Cuéntame cómo pasó (Tell me how it happened) in the role of the father of a Spanish middle-class family, during the last years of Spain's Francoist government and the transition to democracy.

In 2013 Arias worked in the Spanish dub of the videogame Battlefield 4 as Captain Roland Garrison.

At Gijón International Film Festival in 2014, he received the Nacho Martinez Award.[2][3]

Imanol Arias is Ambassador for UNICEF.[4][5][6]

On 7 April 2016, Imanol Arias was implicated for tax evasion and money laundering in the Panama Papers scandal as the owner of an offshore company, Trekel Trading Limited, located on the island nation of Niue that included a bank account under his complete control at the Swiss bank Banque Franck SA.[7][8][9]

Filmography

Television

  • Cervantes (1981)
  • Juanita la larga (1982)
  • Anillos de oro (1983)
  • Brigada Central (1989)
  • Brigada Central 2: La guerra blanca (1993)
  • Querido maestro (1997)
  • Camino de Santiago (1999)
  • Dime que me quieres (2001)
  • Severo Ochoa: la conquista del Nobel (2001)
  • Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001 - )
  • Atrapados (2003)
  • Mentiras (2005)
  • Un país para comérselo (tv series about Spanish food) (2010-

References

  1. ↑ Albert, Antonio (12 May 1993). "Imanol Arias debuta como director de cine con 'Un asunto privado'". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Argüelles, J. L. (13 November 2014). "Imanol Arias recibe el premio del Festival de Cine de Gijón por 40 años de trabajo". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Editorial Prensa Asturiana, S.A. Prensa Ibérica. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Imanol Arias Premio Nacho Martínez en el Festival de Cine de Gijón". Gota de Luz (in Spanish). 10 December 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Imanol Arias, embajador de UNICEF". Europa Press (in Spanish). 2 June 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Europa Press (2 June 2014). "Imanol Arias, embajador de UNICEF". Diario Sur (in Spanish). Vocento. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Europa Press (2 June 2014). "Imanol Arias, embajador de UNICEF". Hoy (in Spanish). Vocento. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Pérez, Fernando Jesús (10 May 2016). "Ana Duato e Imanol Arias recogen en la Audiencia la querella por delito fiscal". El País (in Spanish). Prisa. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  8. ↑ Vázquez, Ángeles (6 May 2016). "Anticorrupción acusa a Imanol Arias y Ana Duato de haber defraudado tres millones de euros". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid: Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "La Fiscalía pide que Imanol Arias y Ana Duato declaren por fraude fiscal". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 6 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
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