In addition to the particular battle for the El Rosco boat waged every day by the contestants, one of the great claims of Pasapalabra is the visit to the set of famous guests. On this occasion, those in charge of helping to add seconds to the contestants for the final test and entertaining the viewers are Candela Serrat, Elisa Matilla, Fernando Romay and Roberto Álamo. Let’s get to know this latest guest a little better.
Roberto Álamo was born in 1970 in Villaverde, a working-class neighborhood in Madrid. Already as a child he fell in love with the cinema; Specifically, the crush occurred after seeing Days of Wine and Roses, by Blake Edwards (1962), a film that made him “cry on the sly for three days; I wanted to be Jack Lemmon so that I could produce in people something similar to what he and that story had provoked in me”, he recalls. And soon after, he discovered A Streetcar Named Desire and a celluloid animal named Marlon Brando.
Trained at the Cristina Rota School, the actor entered the world of theater at the hands of the Animalario, a company he founded together with Willy Toledo and Alberto San Juan. His career began to roll definitively between the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 21st century.
And the actor did not take long to achieve the prestige that only awards give. If in 2010, Álamo collected the Max Theater Award for Best Male Performance with his role in the play Urtain, in 2013 and 2017 he won two Goya Awards.
The man from Madrid entered the small screen with the television series This is my neighborhood (1996) and La casa de los líos (1998). In cinema, he worked in several short films and in small roles until he was part of the phenomenon of the film Días de fútbol (2003), by David Serrano.
Starting with this football film, the projects he received unquestionably improved. And, as an example, these buttons: The Skin I Live In (2011) by Pedro Almodóvar; Fat men by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; The two sides of Emilio Martínez Lázaro’s bed; The great Spanish family (2013) or May God forgive us (2017), Rodrigo Sorogoyen. His performance in these last two films was what earned Álamo two Goya Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor, respectively.
As for television, despite having appeared sporadically in successful series such as Los Serranos, Los hombres de Paco or Sin tetas no hay paraíso, many viewers will inevitably situate him in his role as Juan de Calatrava in Águila Roja.
More recently, Roberto Álamo has worked on the series Antiriots (2020), La reina del pueblo (2021) and La Red Púrpura (2023, Atresplayer).
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