Ernesto Alterio

Ernesto Federico Alterio Bacaicoa was born in Buenos Aires on 25 September 1970.^[1] Alterio is the son of psychologist Modesta Ángela Bacaicoa Destéfano and actor Héctor Alterio Onorato. His younger sister Malena also pursued an acting career.^[2] He is of Italian descent, his grandparents were originally from Carpinone, a commune in the province of Isernia, in the Molise region.^[3] During Isabel Perón's government that took place very shortly after the birth of Malena, his father Héctor Alterio was threatened by Triple A, so the family went into exile and settled in Spain between 1974 and 1975 (where Héctor was working at the time).^[4][5][2]

Installed with his family in Madrid, when he was four years old, Ernesto suffered the uprooting that exile brings. He remained attached to his Argentine roots through family traditions.^[5][6] Same as his father, Alterio acquired a Spanish citizenship along with the Argentine one.^[7] He began Biology studies but left to take up History, and continued with those studies for two years.^[2] Encouraged to be like his father, Ernesto said that he went "sideways, skirting the edge of the pond so as not to fall into it: music, photography, history..." until he made the decision to accept being an actor.^[6] He trained his acting chops under Cristina Rota.^[1]

He made his big screen debut in 1992 with a small appearance in Shooting Elizabeth along with Jeff Goldblum.^[1] It was followed by minor appearances in You Shall Die in Chafarinas and Mi nombre es sombra.^[1]

In 1996, he founded the theatre group 'Ración de oreja' (seed of 'Animalario') together with Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo, and Nathalie Poza.^[8]

He landed some early leading film roles under Fernando Colomo in the late 1990s with performances in The Stolen Years (for which he earned a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor)^[9] and Havana Quartet [es].^[10] Starting in 2003, Alterio had a 15-year-long relationship with actress Juana Acosta, with whom he had one daughter.^[11]

He has starred in the cult miniseries Vientos del agua along with his father, and has twice worked with director Marcelo Piñeyro, who frequently hires his father in roles. He works both in Spanish and Argentine television.

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1992	Tango Feroz			[citation needed]
1995	Belmonte			[citation needed]
1995	Morirás en Chafarinas (You Shall Die in Chafarinas)			[citation needed]
1996	Tengo una casa (I Have a House)	Nico		[12]
1996	Más que amor, frenesí (Not Love, Just Frenzy)			[citation needed]
1996	Mi nombre es sombra			[citation needed]
1997	Dos por dos	Mateo		[13]
1998	Los años bárbaros (The Stolen Years)	Jaime		[14]
1998	Insomnio (Sleepless in Madrid)	Juan		[15]
1999	Los lobos de Washington (Washington Wolves)	Pablo		[16]
1999	Cuarteto de La Habana [es] (Havana Quartet)	Walther		[17]
2000	Kasbah	Mario		[18]
2000	Yoyes	Joxean Dorronsoro		[19]
2001	Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón [es]	Salvador Dalí		[20]
	Juego de Luna (Luna's Game)	Nano		[21]
2002	El otro lado de la cama (The Other Side of the Bed)	Javier		[22]
2002	Deseo (Desire)	Julio		[23]
2003	Días de fútbol (Football Days)	Antonio		[24]
2004	Muertos comunes (Common Dead)	Fermín		[25]
2004	Incautos (Swindled)	Ernesto		[26]
2005	Semen, una historia de amor (Semen, A Love Story)	Serafín		[27]
2005	El método (The Method)	Enrique		[28]
2006	Los 2 lados de la cama (The 2 Sides of the Bed)	Javier	Sequel to The Other Side of the Bed	[29]
2008	Rivales (Rivals)	Guillermo		[30]
2009	Las viudas de los jueves (The Widows of Thursdays)	Martín		[31]
2011	Infancia clandestina (Clandestine Childhood)	Tío Beto ('uncle Beto')		[32]
2013	¿Quién mató a Bambi? (Who Killed Bambi?)	Edu		[33]
2014	Sexo fácil, películas tristes (Easy Sex, Sad Movies)	Pablo Diuk		[34]
2015	Incidencias (Stranded)	José María		[35][36]
2017	Perfectos desconocidos (Perfect Strangers)	Antonio		[37]
2018	La sombra de la ley (Gun City)	El Tísico		[38]
2019	Lo dejo cuando quiera (I Can Quit Whenever I Want)	Tacho		[39]
2019	Ventajas de viajar en tren (Advantages of Travelling by Train)	Ángel Sanagustín		[40]
2020	Te quiero, imbécil (I Love You, Stupid)	Sebastian Vennet		[41]
2020	Orígenes secretos (Unknown Origins)	Bruguera		[42]
2020	Un mundo normal (The Sea Beyond)	Ernesto		[43]
2021	Donde caben dos (More the Merrier)	Alberto		[44]
2022	El cuarto pasajero (Four's a Crowd)	Juan Carlos		[45]
2023	Mari(dos) (Co-Husbands)	Emilio		[46]
	Moscas (Flies)	Luis Machi		[47]
2025	Un funeral de locos	Robert		[48]
	Todos los lados de la cama (Every Side of the Bed)	Javier		[49]
2026	Karateka			[50]

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2017	Cable Girls	Sebastián Uribe		[citation needed]
2018	Narcos: Mexico	Salvador Osuna Nava		[citation needed]
2020	Someone Has to Die	Gregorio Falcón		[citation needed]
2021	Todos mienten	Diego		[51]
2025	Su majestad	Guillermo		[52]

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