Antonio Resines

Antonio Cayetano Francisco de Sales Fernández Resines (Torrelavega, Cantabria; August 7, 1954), known as Antonio Resines, is a Spanish film and television actor, mainly, with various performances in the theater. He was president of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (2015-2016) and winner of a Goya award for best male lead performance.

Biography

Early years

Born on August 7, 1954 in Torrelavega (Cantabria, Spain), he is the son of José Ramón Fernández Quevedo, lawyer, and Amalia Resines Ruiz de Rebolledo, housewife, being the second of five siblings (María Teresa, Antonio, Ramón, Javier and Luis). He moved to Madrid where he studied at the Colegio Marianista Santa María del Pilar, from preschool to pre-university. He was a member of the Catholic Scout Movement and a prominent rugby athlete. He began his law degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1971, later leaving it for Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he had classmates to Carlos Boyero and Fernando Trueba. Together they decided to shoot a film that marked the debut of the latter: First film.

Decades of the 80s and 90s

Taking advantage of his appearance as an ordinary man, he decided to make a living working for film and television, generally playing the husband or ex of—almost always—Verónica Forqué and Carmen Maura, with fidelity to some directors such as Manuel Iborra or the already mentioned Trueba. Films like The Duck Dance (1989), How to Be a Woman and Not Die Trying (Ana Belén, 1991) or All men are equal i> (1994) are symptomatic in this regard. He also appears in thrillers such as Todo por la pasta (Enrique Urbizu, 1991).

In 1991 he won his first Fotogramas de Plata thanks to Eva y Adán, matrimonial agency. Shortly after, he presented the program Objetivo indiscreto alongside Anabel Alonso, with whom he met again in Thieves go to the office, in which he played a mute innkeeper in whose cantina met the most veteran thieves in Madrid.

In 1997 he filmed three films with which his career took a turn. In The Good Star (Ricardo Franco) the actor put himself in the shoes of a castrated forty-year-old who took in a pregnant, one-eyed woman (Maribel Verdú), whom he married and years later She also sheltered her sick ex-boyfriend (Jordi Mollà). In Secondary Roads (Emilio Martínez Lázaro), based on the novel by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, he was a widower whose son (Fernando Ramallo) could not accept him. In The Time of Happiness he became a fifty-year-old man whose marriage fell apart in a summer in which his children (María Adánez, Silvia Abascal, Pepón Nieto and Carlos Fuentes) reached the maturity.

The following year Antonio Resines won the Goya award for best male lead performance. He participated in The apple of your eyes (1998), where he played a film director. He ended the year with the recording of the series At eleven at home , in the company of Carmen Maura, Ana Obregón, Liberto Rabal, Beatriz Rico, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Unax Ugalde, Jorge Sanz and Alejo Sauras.

Years 2000 to 2010

In 2001 Enrique Urbizu called him to lead the cast of La Caja 507, in which Resines transformed into a man whose daughter was murdered. Around that time, the filming of Marujas assassines took place, where he was an unbearable macho man, and Two tough guys , along with Jordi Vilches. In 2002 he appeared in the video clip for the song ¡Qué barbaridad! by the Madrid singer Jaime Urrutia.

In 2003 he participated in the film directed by his friend Jesús Bonilla El oro de Moscow. That same year, Los Serrano began to air, a comedy series in which Diego Serrano, the protagonist of the series played by Resines, literally put his hands on his head because he did not understand this order of factors to his woman more cultured than him, to his teenage children and, ultimately, to a world that was too wide for him. The series became one of the most important and most viewed series in the history of Spain, with enormous audience data, being the most viewed series of 2004. The series ended in 2008.

In 2005 he returned to the drama with Other days will come, in which he played a widower whose son (Nacho Aldeguer) had committed suicide; to a being succumbed by the shipwreck that he chooses to stay afloat even at the cost of pretending to be unaware of a terrible reality, sharing the cast with Cecilia Roth and Fernando Guillén. Shortly after, the actor broke his leg as a result of a motorcycle accident, which prevented him from participating in Alatriste. However, at the end of the year, he had the opportunity to work on another period film: La dama boba .

In 2009 he returned to the cinema with Celda 211, by Daniel Monzón, in which he played Utrilla, a prison policeman where a riot breaks out in the FIES sector., and which earned him his third nomination for the Goya Awards.

In 2010 he made his debut in Mexico, in the soap opera Soledad, where he plays a bad father who mistreats his daughter.

From 2010 onwards

On February 19, 2015, Resines assumed the position of acting president of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences after his predecessor, Enrique González Macho, resigned. On May 9, 2015—being the only candidate in the elections—the institution ratified him as president. On July 13, 2016, Resines resigned from the position due to disagreements with part of the Board of Directors. According to the digital medium CTXT, these disagreements would have occurred after Resines had created an Economic Interest Group behind the Board's back to manage sponsorships for the Goya awards.

In 2022 he was the crier of the San Isidro Festival in Madrid and the Virgen Grande Festival in Torrelavega, Cantabria.

Controversies

Complaints against CTXT

After CTXT published in one of its articles that Resines had created the Economic Interest Group, the actor asked the media to delete the news. Given this refusal, Resines proceeded to file a complaint against Revista Contexto S.L. (news company) for "insults and injuries to his honor." The case was dismissed. In a subsequent trial, the newspaper was sentenced to pay 70,000 euros to Resines. The judge in the case, although she considered that "the information [published] was true and that it was compared with reliable sources and documents," the article was written in an "insidious and biased" manner, in light of a tweet from an Internet user.

Partial filmography

He participated in the recording of the video clip “Más alcohol” by the Spanish rap duo Natos y Waor

Television

TV series

TV shows

Theatre

• 1989: Miles glorioussus, from Plauto, free version and address of José Luis Alonso de Santos, sharing the cast with Maribel Verdú, at the Festival de Mérida.
• 2012: Orchestra Club Virginia, adaptation of the homonymous film by Manuel Iborra, with wardrobe of Lorenzo Caprile.
• 2018: The funeral, written and directed by Manuel M. Velasco, sharing cast with Concha Velasco.

Comic

Sergeant Resines

Antonio is the protagonist of this 2022 comic written by David Galán Galindo, drawn by Salva Espín and with a Prologue by Álex de la Iglesia.

Advertising

• OS/2 (1994). Resines is a warper
• Kia Shuma (1998)
• Legálitas (2006)
• Campaign of the Gimnastics of Torrelavega (2009)
• The North Gula (2011)
• Krissia (2011)
• Ministry of Energy. Government of Spain (2015)
• Bnext (2019)
• More (2020)
• The Power Supply, 1954 edition (2020)

Video games

• Imperivm: The War of the Galias (2002), folding one of the characters.

Prizes and nominations

Goya Awards

Silver frames

Medals of the Film Writers Circle

Television Academy Awards

Awards of the Union of Actors

TP Gold

Other awards

• Bronze to the best actor in the Madrid Leisure Guide Be unfaithful and don't look at who (1985).
• Ondas Award to the best actor (ex aequo with Jordi Mollà) by The good star (1997).
• Mar del Plata International Film Festival Award to the best actor (ex aequo with Jordi Mollà) by The good star (1997).
• Premio del Festival de Cine Español de Málaga (Premio Ricardo Franco) (1999).
• Zapping Award to the best actor (better actor) for the series The Serrano (2004).
• Award of Honor to the Path at the Zoom European Film Festival for Igualada Television (2013).
• Gold Medal to merit in the Fine Arts (2020).