Enrique Villen

Enrique Villén Cruz (Madrid, Spain, May 1, 1960) is a Spanish actor. Specialized in supporting roles, he has worked with important Spanish directors such as Vicente Aranda, Fernando León de Aranoa, José Luis Garci, Bigas Luna and especially with Álex de la Iglesia.

Biography

A late vocation, at the age of 16 he worked in nightclubs, he was a showman, stand-up comedian, comedian, comedian and imitator and he worked in venues throughout Spain. He later joined the company Juan sin Miedo making puppets on television.

Starting in 1990, she began her television resume with the series Eva y Adán, matrimonial agency and Villarriba y Villabajo, in the program Inocente, innocent, where he met Álex de la Iglesia and Pedro Barbero and from there they began asking him to make films.

In 1994 he participates with Santiago Aguilar and Luis Guridi in Justino, un assassino de los hombres in which after a strong argument with Justino (Saturnino García) in a bar, he ambushes him in an underground where after a melee, Enrique is the victim of Justino's lace.

In 1995 he began his collaboration with Álex de la Iglesia in The Day of the Beast, although on that occasion his role as a security guard barely lasted a couple of minutes on screen.

He plays supporting characters in films such as Libertarias (1996) - where he played a militiaman - and Matías, line judge (1996).

In 1998 Fernando León de Aranoa chose him to play in Barrio a middle-aged man whose marriage is shipwrecked and who is forced to move from his house to a van. The commercial success of the film led to a greater number of offers in films such as Volavérunt or The ugliest woman in the world.

In 2000 he appeared in The Community where he plays a neighbor willing to steal a dead man's money and who dies in the attempt in a gruesome manner. At that time she achieved the role of Pilar Bardem's suitor in the series Abierto 24 Horas. In 2001, she plays Teo Navarro, companion of Fele Martínez, a tough police officer in the film Tuno negro by Pedro Barbero.

Two years later Fernando León de Aranoa counted on him again for Mondays in the Sun. Around those same dates he premiered The biggest robbery in the world , We are nobody and the short film El As , by Martin Coiffier.

He combines his cinematographic works with forays into television series such as There is no one who lives here, in which he parodies the working man whose son (Roberto: Daniel Guzmán) was going to marry his daughter (Lucía: María Adánez) of a corrupt man (Rafael: Nicolás Dueñas).

In 2004, Álex de la Iglesia entrusts him in Crimen ferpecto with the role of police inspector whose wife makes holes in the condoms that he uses in order to get pregnant. This role was associated with the most characteristic image of the actor: a tired, resigned, incredulous man, located in the lower middle class.

That year he began his professional relationship with José Luis Garci in Tiovivo c. 1950, in which she plays the role of a bank clerk who helped a colleague pretend to be the branch manager in view of his relatives in the town.

In 2005 he would repeat with Garci in Ninette, where the actor played Armando. He completed the year filming Princesas -where he included the owner of a bar who agreed to help a Latin American prostitute to pass herself off as a waitress in the eyes of her family-, The longest penalty in the world -in which Enrique Villén repeated his role as an exhausted man and this time he was the coach of a terrible soccer team-, and in Torrente 3, where Santiago Segura entrusted him with the mission to satirize corrupt police officers installed in positions of high responsibility. He would repeat this same role in Torrente 4 (2011).

In December he received a nomination for the Goya Award for best supporting male performance for his work in Ninette, which he lost to Carmelo Gómez, winner of The Method. Shortly afterward he obtained a mention from the Actors' Union, but the award went to Eduard Fernández. While his professional career continues to add titles.

In 2006 he appears in an episode of Paco's Men playing Rita's father (Neus Sanz). That year he premiered Los managers where the actor played the agent of two novice singers, La Distancia -playing the owner of a strip bar-, and Los Borgia, where he played a cruelly tortured enemy of Rodrigo Borgia (Lluís Homar). In this way, his filmography is torn between social cinema - whether dramatic or comic - and prestige cinema, almost always giving life to 'men of the street'. Like El Tuerto from Seven Tables of French Billiards, a man who loses his sight and steals from his teammates on a pool team despite the concerns expressed by some of them (Fele: Raúl Arévalo) for him. In Luz de Domingo he once again plays a proletarian class member who serves the town's chief (Carlos Larrañaga), and who will execute him for betraying him. For his role, the Actors' Union rewarded him with a second nomination, this time as best supporting actor.

In 2006 he produced the short film A Blind, awarded by the Film Academy with a Goya for best fiction short film.

In 2008 he placed himself under the command of José Luis Garci in Sangre de mayo while recording the series El syndrome de Ulysses, where he plays Ceferino. That same year he participated in Álex de la Iglesia's series, Plutón B.R.B. Neroplaying the role of Roswell.

In 2009 he participated in the failed Telecinco fiction series De suddenly, los Gómez.

In 2010 with Pedro Costa he filmed The Kidnapping of Anabel, an episode of the series The Trace of Crime, and also participated in the feature films El gran Vázquez , by Óscar Aibar, and Sad trumpet ballad, by Álex de la Iglesia. That same year he shot, as producer, screenwriter and actor, the short film Goodbye Dad, Goodbye Mom , also a candidate for the Goya for best fiction short film and for which he won the acting award at the Festival de Alicante Cinema. He also shot Paco Arango's first film, Maktub .

In 2011 he participated in fiction for TVE (Plaza de España.) That same year he made his fifth film with José Luis Garci, titled Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days. Also in 2011, and under the orders of Miguel Bardem, she recorded the telefilm Matar a Carrero for TVE.

Filmography

• Justin, a senior killer (1994)
• The Day of the Beast (1995)
• Libertarian (1996)
• Matías, judge of the line (1996)
• The guardian angel (1996)
• The Crime of the Eastern Film (1997)
• Barrio (1998)
• Atilano, President (1998)
• The ugliest woman in the world (1999)
• Volavérunt (1999)
• Ja me maaten...! (2000)
• The community (2000)
• Black tune (2001)
• We're nobody. (2002)
• The biggest robbery ever counted (2002)
• Mondays in the sun (2002)
• steering wheels (2003)
• Crime ferspect (2004)
• Tiovivo v. 1950 (2004)
• Torrente 3: The Protector (2005)
• Princesses (2005)
• The Longest Penalty in the World (2005)
• Ninette (2005)
• The managers (2006)
• Ekipo Ja (2006)
• The distance (2006)
• Seven French billiard tables (2007)
• Sunday light (2007)
• May blood (2008)
• The great Vázquez (2009)
• Sad tile of trumpet (2010)
• Clara is not a woman's name (2011)
• Maktub (2011)
• Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (Crisis Letal) (2011)
• For Elisa (2012)
• Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
• The witches of Zugarramurdi (2013)
• Viral (2013)
• Mortadelo and Philemon against Jimmy the "Cachondo" (2014)
• Gross operations (2014)
• My big night (2015)
• The Adventures of Moriana (2015)
• Blessed calamity (2015)
• Anabel (2015)
• Little Switzerland (2019)
• My other Jon of Paco Arango (2023)

Television

Fixed characters

• The tenant (2004)
• Ulysses syndrome (2007-2008)
• Pluto B.R.B. Nero (2008-2009)
• Suddenly, the Gomez (2009)
• The Footprint of the Crime: Anabel's Kidnapping (2010)
• Plaza de España (2011)
• The Murder of Carrero Blanco (2011)
• Prim, the murder of Turk Street (2014)
• The gold nail (2015)
• Olmos and Robles (2015-2016)
• The knot (2019-2020)

Episodic characters

• I don't like driving. (2022)
• #Luimelia (2021)
• Ladies of the (h)AMPA (2019)
• The Ministry of Time (2017)
• The Case: Chronicle of Events (2016)
• The Pepe Shiringuito (2016)
• José Mota presents (2015)
• The one that's coming (2014-2015)
• The Mysteries of Laura (2014)
• Tell me how it happened. (2013)
• What happened to Jorge Sanz? (2010)
• Balls (2009)
• The time of José Mota (2009)
• Tuesday of Carnival (2008)
• The Serrano (2006)
• The men of Paco (2006)
• The Commissioner (2001, 2005)
• Wolves (2005)
• There's no one alive here. (2003)
• Fire code (2003)
• Hospital Central (2003)
• Ana and the seven (2003)
• Open 24 hours (2000)
• Jacinto During, representative (2000)
• The house of troubles (1996, 1997, 1998)
• Sisters (1998)
• 11 o'clock at home (1998)
• Hands to the work (1998)
• All men are equal (1997)
• This is my neighborhood. (1997)
• Milk brothers (1996)
• Canguros (1996)
• Oh, Lord, Lord! (1995)
• Villarriba and Villabajo (1994)
• Eve and Adam, marriage agency (1990)

Internet

• The children of Mambru (2012)

Advertising

• Christmas Spot 2014 (2014)
• Advert Gaes next to Carmen Machi (2015)
• Gas Natural Fenosa, together with Anabel Alonso (2015)
• Amber Beers (2017)

Prizes

Annual Awards of the “Goya” Academy

Awards of the Union of Actors

Alicante Film Festival

Elche International Independent Film Festival

International Film Festival of Villaviciosa de Odón

Short Contest "Laguardia-Rioja Alavesa"