Antonio de la Torre Martín (born 18 January 1968) is a Spanish actor and journalist. He is the actor with most nominations overall to the Goya Awards. He won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for Dark Blue Almost Black in 2007; whereas, he earned the Goya Award for Best Actor for The Realm in 2019. He has starred in many films directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, with whom he collaborated for the first time in the short film Profilaxis (2003).
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Early life and education
Antonio de la Torre Martín was born on 18 January 1968 in Málaga. He studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid, becoming a close friend of Alberto San Juan, then his classmate at the Complutense's Faculty of Information Sciences. Sometime before earning his licentiate degree, he landed a job at Andalusian broadcaster Canal Sur, where he worked as a sports journalist. In order to reconcile his employment in Seville with his acting training under Cristina Rota and attendance to casting calls, he went back and forth from Seville to Madrid on train.
