Darío Grandinetti
Birthday: Born in 1959-03-05 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Deathday: Alive
Darío Grandinetti (born March 5, 1959 in Rosario) is an Argentine actor. Among many other films, he worked under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar in the Academy Award winner Talk to Her. Grandinetti started as a television actor to slowly move towards the cinema. His filmography is mainly of Argentine production or co-productions with his country. His first work in a foreign production was the Bolivian El Día que murió el silencio of 1998, and has recently worked in a number of Spanish films, and also participated as guest in Spanish TV series. He is considered one of the most important Argentine actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Darío Grandinetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Santa Evita
Character: Juan Domingo Perón
After Eva Perón’s death in 1952, her corpse is held for three years awaiting the construction of a mausoleum — a resting place that would never be built. In 1955, the military seized control of Argentina and hid Perón’s body from the public, fearing that it would unite the country against them. But they never imagined that in doing so she would become more dangerous in death than she was in life....
Honor
Character: Martín Romero
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Tiempo de pensar
Character:
Time to Think proposes to address the problem of gender violence, questioning stereotypes and the ways in which women are represented in the media. Each episode poses a conflict that runs through the daily life of a woman and her environment. With a mixture of drama, romantic comedy, and humor, it addresses a socio-emotional conflict that runs through a woman's life, faced with situations that intersect opposite feelings....
Maradona: Sueño bendito
Character: César Menotti
The controversial life and history of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. From his beginnings in Villa Fiorito, one of the poorest barrios of Buenos Aires, to achieving glory on the international football league. Earning himself a well-deserved place in history. Living a life strewn with drugs, sex and public scrutiny, he played by his own rules regardless of the consequences. Watch the man who took the world by storm and made his way into the hearts of millions....
Variaciones Walsh
Character: Comisario Laurenzi
In each episode, which takes place independently of each other, commissioners Jiménez (Luis Luque) and Laurenzi (Darío Grandinetti) must solve different police cases that will be presented to them and will be a challenge for them, for which they will receive the help of the editor literary Daniel Hernández (Nicolás Cabré) who is looking to write a book about crimes....
Atreverse
Character: Beto
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Atreverse
Character: Víctor
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Atreverse
Character: Antonio
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Atreverse
Character: Marcelo
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La casa del mar
Character: Jorge Pelazas
La Casa del Mar (The house by the Sea) is the story of the disappearance of Laura Ramos, Pelaza's research and it's consequences. But it is also the story of Daniel and his friends, their secrets, their resentment. The plot will become more complex as the investigation proceeds. Is Laura alive? Why are there so many secrets? What's Daniel hiding?...
Tiempo final
Character:
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El Lobista
Character: Pastor Ospina
Matias Franco is a successful and immune lobbyist. Immersed in the world of politics and influence trafficking, he seeks to seal the deal of his life and partners with Pastor Elián Ospina, placing him under the eye of justice....
La novia gitana
Character: Miguel Vistas
Set in the heart of the Spanish Romani community, the fiction follows police inspector Elena Blanco and her team, as they try to crack the crime case pertaining to the murders of sisters Lara and Susana Macaya, separated by a 7-year gap....
Hierro
Character: Antonio Díaz
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Chiquititas
Character: Juan Maza
The series focuses about orphans living in a manor, known as Rincón de Luz, where they're guided by a young woman that represents a maternal figure for them....
En Terapia
Character: Carlos
En Terapia is a 2012 Argentine remake of In Treatment. The main actors of the 2012 season are Diego Peretti, Julieta Cardinali, Germán Palacios, Ailín Salas, Dolores Fonzi, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Norma Aleandro. The second season added Carla Peterson, Gonzalo Slipak, Roberto Carnaghi and Luisana Lopilato....
Algo habrán hecho
Character:
Algo habrán hecho is a documentary film for television that narrates the history of Argentina. It was created by the argentine historian Felipe Pigna, who acted as presenter. In the first two seasons Mario Pergolini was a co-presenter of it, but after giving up on all works on television his role in the documentary was taken by Juan Di Natale. Di Natale and Pergolini were by that time co-presenters of the talk show Caiga quien caiga. Di Natale pointed that he wasn't meant to act as if he was Per...
Movie Credits
Talk to Her
Character: Marco
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas....
Killing Words
Character: Ramón Diaz
A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement....
La pandilla aventurera
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In 1969, excited by the arrival of man on the Moon, a group of boys devised a rocket....
Waiting for the Hearse
Character: Cacho
Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?...
Neon Flesh
Character: Chino
Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies....
Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going
Character: Leopoldo
A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries....
¿De quién es el portaligas?
Character: Norman
Rosario, Argentina, the 80's. The story of three girl friends in their twenties, Julieta, Leonora y Romina, who have crazy rock-groupies lives, that get involved in a bizarre mafia chantage, after Leonora falls in the hospital....
Let the Dance Begin
Character: Carlos
The reunion of three friends, among tango, dance, music and the opportunity of a trip that will take them as in their good old days to travel the route of the country....
Bienvenido León de Francia
Character: Don Romano
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Ilusión de movimiento
Character: Rafael
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Proxima salida
Character: Carlos Velmar
The stories of five railroad workers who have been sacked as a consequence of the economic crisis....
The Dark Side of the Heart
Character: Oliverio
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?...
Les longs manteaux
Character:
A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia....
An Argentinian Crime
Character: Márquez
Rosario in the 80s. The disappearance of a man during the military dictatorship. Two young people from the court must do everything possible to solve the case while facing police corruption and various dangers that put their lives at risk....
The Jar
Character:
A female teacher asks a bus driver to take her urine sample to Buenos Aires for its analysis....
Darse cuenta
Character: Juan
The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital....
Operación Fangio
Character: Juan Manuel Fangio
Cuba, February 24, 1958. The second Grand Prix International Automobile City of Havana is scheduled for this date. The great Argentinean driver Juan Manuel Fangio, five times world champion, is expected with open arms by all Cubans and the Batista government, the event organizer. But Fidel's revolutionary group "July 26" has other plans for Fangio, not exactly fly. The group's intention is that Fangio boycott a government that has very little time in power....
Arcibel's Game
Character: Arcibel Alegría
A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution....
Sun City
Character: Luis
To the surprise suicide of his mother, Manuela, a 23-year-old decides to unravel the mystery that led her to take such a decision, discovering a past carefully muted. ....
Cien veces no debo
Character: Jorge
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family....
The Day Silence Died
Character: Abelardo
A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to hear. A subplot evolves between Abelardo (the stranger), Celeste (a young woman who is chained inside her father's house to stop her running away), ...
La búsqueda
Character: Juan Carlos, "El mudo"
A family is taken hostage by a trio of criminals. The father is killed, and the daughter swears revenge....
Wake Up Love
Character: Ernesto
Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who ...
El año del diluvio
Character: Aixelá
In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing....
Stormy Weather
Character:
The lives of a designer and an alcoholic colide after they both try to kill themselves....
Welcome, Violeta!
Character: Holden
Over the course of her stay at the remote residence, Ana becomes more and more familiar with Holden’s idiosyncratic methods that require the participating artists to abandon their own identities and live emotionally and psychologically as their characters. Captivated by her artistic investigation, Ana immerses herself wholly into the method and starts living as Violeta, until her fiction loses control....
Santiago's Path: Disappearance and Death of Santiago Maldonado
Character:
Santiago Maldonado disappeared in the midst of repression against a Mapuche community that claimed to Luciano Benetton for his land. His body was found 78 days later. The need for truth and justice continues...
Tangos Are for Two
Character: Renzo Franchi/Carlos Gardel
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tou...
The Dark Side of the Heart 2
Character: Oliverio
The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find jobs. Oliviero, however, leaves Miranda in search of his first love Ana who he met ten years prior. Once in Barcelona, he realizes that Ana's life has drastically changed and their love is in the past. Soon, he meets poet and circus performer, ...
Inevitable
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Fabian (Dario Grandinetti) works as a bank executive. After one of his colleagues in the bank dies, he falls into crisis. His wife, Mariela (Carolina Peleritti), is a psychologist and has Olga (Mabel Rivera) , an embittered woman who tries to take her frustration out on her, as one of her patients. Fabian will meet a famous blind author (Federico Luppi), who tries to help him. Following his advice, Fabian embarks himself on a relationship with Alicia (Antonella Costa), a young artist that he con...
Wild Tales
Character: Salgado (segment "Pasternak")
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble....
Santa Evita: The Journey Behind the Scenes
Character: Juan Domingo Perón
This special will lift the curtain to showcase the work of both onscreen and offscreen talent behind the Star+ original series, “Santa Evita.” Exclusive interviews and footage will transport viewers backstage as they learn how the directors, writers, actors and actresses, and the production team brought Tomás Eloy Martínez’s novel to the small screen....
The Things of Love: Part 2
Character: Tullio
On the way to his exile in Lisbon, Mario meets Silvia, a widow who turns out to be one of his admirers. Silvia has inherited a fortune, leading Mario to resume his career, eventually falling for him. Although Mario has relations with her, he makes it clear that will never fall in love. In Madrid, Juan Pepita and resume their relationship, and because of this the jilted Nena John Colman murders before Pepita, after being arrested. Pepita accepts a contract in Argentina, reunited with Mario. There...
El dedo en la llaga
Character: Tolosa
Eduardo Peña and Angel Ruiz are two Spanish actors who are on tour in Argentina. They try to achieve success there with a play that speaks of man and his passage through life, but the spectators are becoming increasingly scarce. One day his old car breaks down and they stop at Zapallares, a lost town. There, on the eve of the municipal elections, they meet an old friend, Professor Roberto Tolosa (Dario Grandinetti), critical of the construction of a new hotel and with the political class of the ...
Julieta
Character: Lorenzo
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness....
Nina
Character: Pedro
After thirty years, Nina decides to return to the seaside town where she grew up to confront the man who changed her life and to whom the town now pays homage. The reunion with her origins, with her memories and with Blas, a childhood friend, will make her question whether revenge is the only way....
Um Lobo entre os Cisnes
Character: Dino Carrera
"Um Lobo entre os Cisnes” tells the story of Thiago Soares, a boy from the suburbs of Rio who leaves hip hop behind and embarks on the world of classical ballet. His story takes on unexpected turns through his troubled relationship with his mentor, the Cuban Dino Carrera, who improves Thiago's talent until he reaches stardom by becoming the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London....
Francis: Pray for Me
Character: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
A look at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, form his early childhood days in Argentina to his becoming Pope Francis....
Las puertitas del Sr. López
Character:
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Love Returns
Character: Daniele
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life....
The Good Boy
Character: Vidal
The story follows Angel (González), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, just back from Argentina. A former boxer with past ties to Angel's mother and his deceased father, he offers Angel a way out of his dead-end life. Along the way, Angel will have to decide who he truly wants to be and, more importantly, what he's willing ...
Kill Them All
Character: Alejandro
A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers....
La casa de Tourneur
Character:
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Horizontal/Vertical
Character: Policía
En una ciudad desconocida, en un edificio a través de las ventanas se puede ver el momento exacto en el que las cosas cambian. El antes comienza a ser el después y viceversa. Y nada vuelve a ser como antes. En este universo idéntico y diferente a la vez, se ve como los personajes cambian para siempre. In an unknown city, in a building through the windows you can see the exact moment when things change. The before begins to be the after and vice versa. And nothing goes back to the way it was befo...
Dismissal
Character: Rubén
A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell…...
The Heavy Hand of the Law
Character: Juez Ferrera
Gloria is a lawyer who throughout her career has never been able to defend someone who was not guilty. His new client seems to be not so different: a man accused of rape in a small town where no one believes his story....
Quiéreme
Character: Pancho
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Te esperaré
Character: Ariel Creu Lermanh
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The Pact
Character: Álex
Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be saved if Mónica does something for him....
The Nautical Chart
Character:
Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelona to an attractive and mysterious woman, Tangier. This, in hard struggle with an Italian adventurer, Nino Palermo, manages to get a cartographic jewel of eighteen, the Maritime Atlas of Urrutia....
Rojo
Character: Claudio
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant....
The Movie
Character: Diego 1
Diego Simonney is a lonely man living by the sea, once a famed film director, thence fallen into decadence and oblivion, having lost control of his movie and, subsequently, his life....
Seguridad personal
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Buenos Aires, mid-1980s. Ledesma (Darío Grandinetti) is the driver and personal guard of "El Coronel" (Rodolfo Bebán), a mafioso with many contacts in power. He will be attracted to the beautiful woman of his boss (Katja Alemann)....
Fontanarrosa, lo que se dice un ídolo
Character: Raúl Musio
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The Queen of Fear
Character: Robertina's husband
Only one month left until the premiere of The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from focused on the preparations for this new production, Robertina lives in a state of continuous anxiety that turns her privileged life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape....
Tierra arrasada
Character: Narrador
A portrait of Argentina during the presidency of Mauricio Macri....
The Island of Lies
Character: León
Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions....
Días de mayo
Character:
During the Rosariazo of 1969, two young people, a university activist and theater student and a freelance photographer and cameraman for a TV channel, fall in love....
Fisherman
Character: Santos
The solitary life of Santos, a hermit and mysterious fisherman, is altered when three young men arrive to open a hostel near his beach. In an apparent calm, everything is getting complicated. They wait, calculate and all arrive at the appointment of a duel in which everything can fly through the air....
The Rabbits' House
Character: Ingeniero
Argentina, 1975. Laura is only eight years old, but she knows that to survive you have to keep quiet. She shares her days with her mother and the other activists in a house where the clandestine printing of the Evita Montonera is hidden....
Haroldo Conti, homo viator
Character: Haroldo Conti
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La balada de Donna Helena
Character:
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Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
Character: Self
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Dismantling an Elephant
Character: Félix
A mother is trapped by both a close bond to her daughter and a day-to-day life whose elephant in the room is her own addiction, which nobody mentions, remaining a taboo....