Oscar Foronda

Oscar Foronda Pallarés (born 13 September 1970 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actor who has appeared in over 50 films and television series. In his career he has acted in German, English, Swedish, US, Korean and Spanish productions.^[1]

Oscar Foronda
Oscar Foronda in 2020
Born	(1970-09-13) 13 September 1970 (age 52) Barcelona, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present

Career

In the early 1990s Foronda started performing in commercials and amateur theatre. He continued acting in different episodes of well known Spanish TV-series such as El Comisario and Los Serrano among others. His passion for theatre and his talent on stage allowed him to play a "wonderful impassioned" Macduff in Macbeth (2003) at the Barbican Theatre in London, directed by Calixto Bieito.^[2] In the years to follow Foronda became a prolific television actor, acting in many Spanish television and film productions.^[3]

His international career began in 2010 with an appearance in the British television production Any Human Heart, a mini-series directed by Michael Samuels in which Foronda played the role of Faustino Angel alongside Matthew Macfadyen. In the years to follow he appeared in other international film and TV productions. In 2017 Foronda played a journalist in the German TV series Tatort, Barcelona Krimi (2017). Different and more prominent roles in international projects followed. In 2019 Foronda was seen in the Swedish C-More TV series Gåsmamman with the credited role of the cunning and implacable Columbian drug dealer "El Largo". In 2020 he appeared as a Crusader Knight in the Netflix TV series Warrior Nun (2020).^[3]

In the Sky AtlanticTV series Riviera (2017) Foronda played Argentinian businessman, Señor Alvarez,^[3] while in Season 4 of the Netflix TV series The Crown (2020) Foronda played the historical character Constantino Davidoff, an Argentinian businessman deemed by some as responsible for starting the Falklands War in 1982.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

In the BBC 1 TV series The Mallorca Files (2021) Foronda played Sebastiá Serra, a Mallorcan sous chef.^[9]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Director	Production
2022	Welcome to Eden	Ernesto	Netflix
2020	The Mallorca Files	Craig Pickles	BBC 1
	The Crown	Paul Whittington	Netflix
	Riviera	Sarah Harding	Sky Atlantic
	Warrior Nun	Simon Barry	Netflix
2019	Gåsmamman	Richard Holm	Bigster
2017	Still Star-Crossed	Jon Jones	ABC Studios
	Tatort	Jochen Alexander Freydank	ZDF
	Centro Médico	Raquel Barrero	Eccho Rights
	Sé Quién Eres	Pau Freixas	Telecinco, Filmax
	Com Si Fos Ahir	Esteve Rovira

Film

Year	Title	Director	Production
2018	El Pacto	David Victori	4 Cats Pictures
2017	Incerta Glòria	Agustí Villaronga	Aragón Televisión
2016	All I See Is You	Marc Forster	2DUX²
2015	The Gunman	Pierre Morel	Open Road Films (II)

References

1. Metropolitan Culture Corner: Oscar Foronda, Metropolitan Barcelona, 4 January 2021
2. Macbeth is butchered, Evening Standard, 8 April 2003
3. "ENTREVISTA A ÓSCAR FORONDA". EN TIEMPOS DE ALETHAIA. 1 June 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
4. "Entrevista a Oscar Foronda, actor en la serie "The Crown"". No Sólo Cine. 8 November 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
5. Scott, David G (17 November 2020). "Spanish actor in Netflix's The Crown recalls filming at Lybster harbour". The Northern Times.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
6. "Oscar Foronda: "Eres actor o actriz las 24 horas del día, aunque puedas tener otras aficiones"". Barna Foto Press. 13 November 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
7. COVADONGA, CAMBLOR (16 November 2020). "Oscar Foronda: "Un equivalente español a 'The Crown' sería también éxito seguro"". El Ibérico.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
8. "Crown actor talks about his Lybster experience". Highland News and Media. 17 November 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
9. The Mallorca Files, 'A Dish Served Cold', Series 2, BBC website

External links

• Oscar Foronda at IMDb
• Oscar Foronda in Spotlight
• Official Website Oscar Foronda