Daniel Guzman (actor)

Daniel García-Pérez Guzmán (Madrid, September 21, 1973), known as Daniel Guzmán, is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Daniel Guzmán at the 2017 Goya Awards.

He grew up in the Las Águilas neighborhood of Madrid, where during his youth he dedicated himself to painting under the pseudonym Tifón despite having a large part of the Aluche neighborhood against the graffiti that he did with the intention of protesting against things in the world with which he did not agree, such as the Gulf War.

This activity earned him some fame, to the point of co-starring in a Docudrama called My Signature on the Walls for the reportage program Crónicas urbanas in 1990. Daniel was left fascinated with the experience and decided to become an actor, getting to enroll in the laboratories of William Layton. He also trained at the TAI School of Arts in Madrid. Despite his enthusiasm, he began to prepare for firefighters' competitive examinations —in order to have something stable in case his career as an actor did not prosper— and he covered his expenses by preparing the stages for artists' concerts. as Luz Casal. In the theater he landed roles in plays such as: La dama boba (1993), Fronteras (1993) and Peter Pan (1994).

Several consecutive strokes of luck made him decide to give up these oppositions, and dedicate himself fully to acting. In 1994 Fernando León de Aranoa offered her a character from his short film Sirenas. He then landed small roles in the films Hi, Are You Alone? and It Could Be Fun. Shortly after, he led the cast of Eso (1997), under the direction of Fernando Colomo, in which Daniel played Domingo, a twenty-something obsessed with losing his virginity. In 1995, the casting director Sara Bilbatúa took advantage of the image offered in that film of Daniel as a representative of a disoriented youth to include him in the cast of Éxtasis, where he played a criminal whose best friend (Rober: Javier Bardem) was mistaken for the lost son of a mature man. For his role, Daniel Guzmán received a candidacy from the Union of Actors for best newcomer. His next feature film, Suerte , confirmed this profile, since his character (Toni) was dedicated to robbing banks due to lack of income to start a life with his girlfriend.

On television, on the contrary, he changed registers in the series Menudo es mi padre (1997), where he had to defend the role of an exemplary student. This work allowed him to penetrate more into the world of feature films.

Following a cameo in Barrio, Daniel landed leading roles in El grito en el cielo and Rewind. In theaters, the actor premiered Jonkes and Yankees (1996-1997) and Joe Killer (1998).

In recognition of her work, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offered her to present the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 1999 together with Adrià Collado and Joel Joan. The three actors took advantage of the occasion to parody the rivalry among young people in that profession.

Daniel returned to television that year in the series Police, in the heart of the street (2000-2003) where he played Rafael, an undisciplined policeman who had trafficked drugs in his youth, and that he was forced to arrest his former colleagues until a bullet left him a paraplegic. Together with Josep Maria Pou -in charge of giving life to the curator- he was a candidate for the Fotogramas de Plata for best television actor. Diego Martín, Héctor Colomé, Lola Dueñas, Laura Pamplona and Andrés Lima were other of his companions.

Guzmán combined filming the series with other works, among which he highlighted When everything is in order (2002), where he played an ex-drug addict who had to take back control of his life, and that earned him a special mention at the Malaga Festival. On television he played Severo Ochoa, in the miniseries Severo Ochoa. The conquest of a Nobel.

In those years he resumed his political activity by actively participating in the mobilizations against the Iraq War, during which he was arrested by the police.

The recording of Police Officers has ended. Daniel took advantage of the circumstance to undertake his leap into directing short films, Sueños (2003), where he delved deeper into the portrait of that thirty-year-old who longed for a childhood broken by the sudden appearance of death. His confrontation with that world that he had long since left behind earned him a reward: the Goya Award for best fiction short film of the year.

On television he participated in the series London Street (2003), playing Paco, a student living in the capital of the United Kingdom, capable of taking advantage of all his friends, and who was rejected by a A young woman named Ajo (Ana Álvarez), still in love with her ex-fiancé, Adolfo (Luis Merlo), a bisexual masseur. The series was suspended, but Merlo and Guzmán would meet again that same year in There is no one living here (2003-2006), where he would also meet Laura Pamplona and Diego Martín. In it, Guzmán played Roberto, a comic book artist with a degree in architecture, who said goodbye to the family home to settle down with his girlfriend Lucía (María Adánez), from whom he would separate due to his fear of abandoning childhood and reestablishing himself in the world. adult world. The series won the Ondas Award and for that reason in the program Lo + Plus he interviewed him, making him coincide with the singer-songwriter Luz Casal and Alejo Sauras, his former neighbor. Guzmán took advantage of the filming gaps to combine other activities, including boxing, a sport in which he made his professional debut in 2005 during a charity fight in León whose proceeds went to the Red Cross; just a few months before finishing his portrayal of a boxer in the film Blows , teaching Natalia Verbeke, his co-star, boxing techniques. This title was followed by Arena en los bolsillos -where he brought in a counselor from a juvenile center whose own life is not on track- and Mia Sarah, where he played Gabriel, a teacher who helps a teenager (Samuel: Manuel Lozano) to overcome the death of his grandfather (Paul: Fernando Fernán Gómez).

In 2006 Guzmán left There is no one living here to plan his debut as a director of feature films, and to participate in April as a motorcyclist in the Carrera de Albacete, in which he came in twenty-sixth place. A year earlier he had participated in the car race Ford 24 hours also for charity.

In June 2007, she began filming for her new series La familia Mata on Antena 3, along with Elena Ballesteros and Anabel Alonso, a series that premiered on September 17 of that year. A year later, and after two seasons in the series, his decision to leave it to dedicate himself to the preparation of what would be his first feature film as a director was announced.

In July 2008, he participated in the 24-hour Frigo de Montmeló motorcycle race, forming a team with Pere Llorens, Leo Font and David Remón, as a pilot of a Ducati 848 from the Ducati Barcelona-RED team, obtaining a commendable ninth place in the final classification.

At the end of 2008, he announced that he was temporarily retiring of his own free will, returning in June 2014, after signing for Telecinco with his new series Anclados, although in October 2014 he left the series due to structural changes in style and tone, and is replaced by the Spanish actor Alfonso Lara.

In February 2015, he joined the Antena 3 series Velvet with the character Lucas. In February 2016, he received the Goya award for best new director for the film In exchange for nothing . In 2018 he moved on to stage direction with the play Perfect Strangers , by Paolo Genovese, of which he is also an adapter.

On April 1, 2022, Canallas, his second feature film as a director will be released.

Filmography as an actor

Feature films

• That's it. (1997)
• Hello, are you alone? (1995)
• It can be fun. (1995)
• Ecstasy (1995)
• Good luck. (1996)
• The cry in heaven (1998)
• Barrio (1998)
• Rewind (1999)
• The dream of the cayman (2000)
• Even if you don't know (2000)
• When everything is in order (2002)
• Hit. (2005)
• Sand in the pockets (2005)
• Mia Sarah (2006)
• My big night (2015)
• Under the same roof (2019)
• Channels (2022)

Short Films

• Mermaids (1994)
• Maika (1994)
• Coaches (1995)
• Cemento and Steel (2022)

Television

Theater

• 1989: One-night dream.
• 1989: The prodigious shoemaker.
• 1993: Borders.
• 1993: The lady boba.
• 1994: Peter Pan.
• 1996/7: Yonquis and Yanquis.
• 1998: Joe Killer.
• 2013/14: Wednesdays don't exist
• 2015: Retail
• 2016: The drinks of life
• 2017: Two more two.

Filmography as a director

• Dreams (2003), short film
• In return for nothing (2015), feature film
• Debt (in production)
• Channels (2022)

Awards and nominations

Goya Awards

Union of Actors and Actresses

• Malaga Festival:
  • Gold biznaga for In return for nothing his first film as director (2015)
  • Silver Biznaga Best Director
  • Silver Biznaga Critics Prize
  • Public Award (2002)
• Alcala de Henares Film Festival:
  • Public Award for the Open Screen Contest In return for nothing (2015)
• Espiga de Oro Festival Int. de Valladolid: Best Short Film (2002)