Supporting actor Nicolás Montoya

We wrote a blog several months earlier about Nicolás Montoya and his acting.  We´ll use this blog to bring us up to date on his career.  Like Javier Padilla, in addition to his role as the banker Miguel in Domino Montoya has been very active in his career as an actor in theater and television, and in addition, is studying scriptwriting at the film school in the University of Sevilla.

Nicolás Montoya with our cameraman in a scene from Domino.

As an actor, he has played the role of Pajarete in Tirso Calero´s popular series Bandolera, a production filmed in Madrid and aired over Antena 3, a private television station that broadcasts nationally to the entire country of Spain.

In addition, he has appeared in several movies, including two that are soon to be released.  One, called Libertador  (The Liberator), is directed by Alberto Arvelo of Venezuela.  It´s about Simon Bolivar, the revolutionary from Venezuela who liberated most of South America from Spanish rule.  The movie stars Edgar Ramírez and Maria Valverde.  It boasts a very international cast:  Ramirez is from Venezuela, Valverde from Spain, and in addition, Danny Houston (USA) Iwan Rheon (Great Britain) and Juana Acosta (Colombia) play leading roles. 

Montoya in a theater production.

In the scene shot in Jerez, there is a pitched battle between Bolivar´s forces and the Spanish army.  Bolivar wins.

Rain at mid-day stopped the filming but not before they apparently had shot enough footage.  I guess the moral here is that nature is more powerful than armies, but armies (and filmmakers) can be flexible enough so that in the long run, it might not matter.

The other movie in which Montoya recently acted is called El barco (The Boat).  In this one, he played the part of a medical doctor, a very appropriate role since in fact, apart from his acting, he actually IS a medical doctor.  This movie is directed by Juan de Artigas.  I´m sorry to say that I don´t know anything more about it.

Montoya as a Roman legionnaire in front of the Roman theater.

In addition to these two movies, Montoya has acted in live theater, playing the role of Don Ventura in a play created by the theater company Hesperides and presented by the Cultural Division of the City of Jerez to celebrate that city´s history.  His other recent theater role was as the Roman Legionnaire Marco.  This was another production created by the theater company Hesperides.  It was presented in the old Roman theater near Bolonia called Baelo Claudia, in which you will remember Esteban Viaña played the part of duumvir.

Montoya--a busy man, indeed.

OUR NEXT POST will be about supporting actor Salvador Valle, and the following one will be about where is Spain headed?