Héctor Alterio

Alterio is of Italian descent, his parents were from Carpinone, Naples. At the end of his studies of dramatic art, he created the company's New Theater, which is supposed to be a renovator of the scene in argentina in the decade of the '60s. His debut in the scenarios occurred much earlier, in 1948, when protagonizóProhibido to commit suicide in the spring, a play written in 1937 by Alejandro Casona. In 1950 he founded the company New Theater, which was at full capacity until 1968. But it was made famous above all for his work on the film began in 1965 with Every sun is bitter, deAlfredo Mathé. In the following years Alterio participated in some of the best movies of the then-new generation of argentinian filmmakers. Has done collaborations with Fernando Ayalaen Argentine until the death, in 1970, Juan José Jusid in faithfulness, 1970, Héctor Olivera in the revenge of The Beto Sanchez, 1972, and The Patagonia rebelde, 1974, Silver Bear in Berlin. And the most prominent of them, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson in The holy of the sword, 1969, The maffia, 1971, and The seven madmen, 1972. In 1975, while in Spain, he was threatened of death by Triple-A,, 2 and therefore decided not to return to their country, and live since then in Spain, where he also received the Spanish nationality. Since 1975, Alterio has also had involvement in many Spanish productions, leaving memorable creations in To an unknown god (1977) by Jaime Chávarri, which won the award for best actor at the San Sebastian Festival; The crime of Cuenca (1979) by Pilar Miró; The nest (1980) by Jaime de Armiñán, a film nominated for an Oscar and won best actor from the Asociación de Cronistas of New York; or Don Juan in hell (1991) and The detective and death (1994); both films by Gonzalo Suárez. However not ceased to participate in numerous movies of your country of origin. Interestingly, he was one of the main protagonists in four of the first five films from that country that came to be a candidate in the final instance of the Oscar for best foreign-language film, and even one of them won it. Those movies were: The truce (1974), Camila (1984), The official story (1985) (which won the award), and The son of the bride (2001). Their children, Ernesto Alterio and Malena Alterio are also actors. In Winds of water, a series of television hispanic argentina, of 13 episodes, which chronicles the phenomenon of immigration through the exile of a Spanish to Argentina, fleeing from political problems, and the return of his son in 2001 due to the economic crisis of that country, and acted both he and his son (actually both were doing the same role, only that Hector made the scenes in which the protagonist appears as an old man, and Ernesto, the young, why not be crossed, never in the development of the series). In 2004 he received the Goya of Honor and in 2010 the Silver Condor to the path.