The actor, producer and director Adolfo Fernández died this Friday at the age of 67, in Madrid, from cancer. The performer gained great popularity thanks to his work in series such as police, Red EagleThe longest night, love is forever And Alpha males. His career includes extensive work in film and theater, where he left his mark on and behind the scenes. Among the films he has participated in are talk to him by Pedro Almodóvar, Mataharis by Icíar Bollaín and Everything is silence by José Luis Cuerda.
Adolfo Fernández was born in Seville, but soon moved to Bilbao, when he was just four years old, where he eventually settled. At the end of the 80s, he started in theater directing, at the head of the Sestao Theater School, staging Sweet whoreby Joan Vilacasas, Woyck by Georg Büchner and adaptation by Alfonso Sastre and Book Gaspar, TVT channel (Ercilla Prize 1991) and Sundays by Juan Luis San José and Xabi Puerta.
Over the next decade, he focused on his acting side, working for directors like Fernando Bernués in Prosecution witnessRoberto Cerda in The useless pond and Mario Gas in Mourning suits Electra well.. His first appearance on the big screen dates back to 1996, in Painted by Juan Estelrich Jr., and on television in 1999, in the series Petra Delicate. Later, other titles will come like The 80s, as we were, B&b And The longest night.
In 2002 he founded his own theater company, K Producciones, focused on texts by contemporary authors (Álamo, Desola, Caballero, Amezcua, Azama, Tanovic, among others). In 2012, he directed and created at the National Drama Center Still life in a ditch; and in 2013 Foreclosure. In 2015, he co-directed and starred in the stage version of La flaqueza del bolshevik by Lorenzo Silva; and in 2017 on the shore by Rafael Chirbes, for which he won a Max. His last work as director was Siveria, a text by F. Javier Suárez Lema, with which he obtained the honorable mention at the LAM Prize of the SGAE Foundation for LGTBI texts.
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