Pol López
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Pol López (born 1984) is a Spanish actor from Catalonia.
- Actor
- theatre director
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| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Education | Institut del Teatre |
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Early life and education
Pol López was born in 1984 in Barcelona.[1] He received training at the Institut del Teatre,[2] after which he founded the 'Solitària' theatre group alongside Júlia Barceló and Pau Vinyals.[3]
Career
At age 17, he played a bit part in the comedy film The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant (2003).[4][5] His film work includes appearances in El camino más largo para volver a casa (2014), The Tunnel Gang (2017), and Historias lamentables (2020).[6] In 2021, he played a chilling role as an extreme right thug in The Replacement (2021), a thriller set in 1982 Denia.[7] He also appeared in television series such as Matar al padre, What the Future Holds, Vergüenza, and Santo.[7] His stage credits include performances in American Buffalo and El Curioso incidente del Perro a Medianoche, while he has also directed some plays.[7] Likewise, his role in a play of Hamlet directed by Pau Carrió earned him the Butaca Award for Best Actor in 2016.[8] He portrayed Alceste in a play of The Misanthrope performed at the Teatre Lliure.[9]
He starred alongside Victoria Luengo in the rural thriller Cork (2022) as a couple starting a new life in the cork business.[10] His performance earned him the Gaudí Award for Best Leading Actor.[11] He featured as Emilio Suárez Trashorras, a mentally unstable former miner (and sentenced to 34,715 years in jail), in the crime drama miniseries See You in Another Life (2024), based on the so-called Asturian plot of the 11-M train bombings, the procurement of explosives for the attacks.[12][13] His role earned him the Feroz Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series.[14] He also played the role of the protective brother of a teenage werewolf in Werewolf (2023).[15]