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Premio Retrospectiva

Guillermo Francella

Premio Retrospectiva

Biography
He is one of Argentina's most popular actors, successfully starring in films, theatre and television.

He starred in uncountable comedy projects for television such as De Carne Somos, La Familia Benvenuto, Brigada Cola, Un Hermano es un Hermano, Naranja y Media, Trillizos, Poné a Francella, Durmiendo con mi Jefe, Casados con hijos and El Hombre de tu Vida.

Throughout his long career, he received the Martín Fierro Award (the highest award in local TV) 8 times as a comedy actor.

He has just premiered the series The One in Charge by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn for the Start+ platform, winning him the Platinum Award for his performance.
His works for comedy theatre and musicals have always been blockbusters. Some of them include The Producers and Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon, Dinner for Schmucks by Francis Veber (and himself in the 2009 version), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by Jeffrey Lane and Davis Yazbek, and Our Women by Eric Assous. He has also directed the comedy Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese.


This summer, he premiered the theatre version of the TV series Casados con Hijos.
He starred in several highly popular films for the silver screen between 1998 and 2007. Later on, his works became more dramatic with more complex characters in Rudo y Cursi (2008), by Carlos Cuarón; and The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), by Juan José Campanella (winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Picture). Since then, he has worked with directors with different styles such as Ana Katz in Los Marziano, Eduard Cortés in Atraco, Marcos Carnevale in Lion’s Heart and Daniel Burman in The Mistery of Happiness. He has always looked for new challenges with his role as Arquímedes Puccio in The Clan by Pablo Trapero, which earned him the Platino and Fenix Awards for Best Actor. Some other examples include his roles in Los que aman, odian, based on the novel by Silvina Ocampo and Bioy Casares, by Alejandro Maci; My Masterpiece, by Gastón Duprat; Animal, by Armando Bo; or The Heist of the Century, by Ariel Winograd.

With the arrival of the streaming univers, he released Marcos Carnevale’s film Granizo on Netflix, becoming worldwide successful. He has recently released The Extortion, a suspense thriller by Martino Zaidelis.

He has recently won the Martín Fierro Award for Best Performance in The One in Charge and the Martín Fierro Golden Award for his film work.

In Spain, he has recently shooted Javier Veiga’s film Playa de Lobos, co-starring Dani Rovira and premiering at the next Malaga Film Festival.
 
 

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