Acting
Feb 15, 1960
Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
Antonio Dechent
Acting
Biography
Antonio Dechent is a Spanish actor born on 16 February 1960 in Seville. After studying psychology, he chose to pursue acting and trained at the Seville Theatre Institute. He made his film debut in Las dos orillas in 1987 and became known primarily for supporting roles in Spanish film, television and theatre. His notable credits include Solas, Intacto, Smoking Room, 7 Virgins, Alatriste and The Sleeping Voice. He received a Goya Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Intacto.
Feature Films (112)
It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.
7 Virgins
An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact.
Intacto
A French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Carmen, who has enchanted José, a young soldier, awakening his most fervent passions leading to tragedy. A path chained to obsession, jealousy, betrayal, and blood.
Carmen
In 17th-century Spain, Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, when near to his death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
A religious thriller that centers on a theory: 30 people have been chosen by God to maintain the balance of world as we know it. These "Chosen Ones" have been methodically exterminated throughout history and it is now time to take out the last of the them.
The Last of the Just
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his wildly protective love and attention onto his mentally challenged nephew, Diego. It seems that Diego's father, Caco's brother, is in hiding after having killed a man from the Caravaca family, who are equally powerful in the community. They are looking for vengeance and have come to Caco for justice. When he refuses to betray his brother, the Caravacas grow impatient. When they realize they are getting nowhere, they threaten to kill Diego. Despite his fierce pride, Caco eventually realizes that the cycle of killing and revenge must be broken. But how can he achieve this and protect everyone he loves?
I Come
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Close Your Eyes
Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of things he has to act. Soon he will be involved in risky actions that endanger their lives and those of their peers.
Orange Honey
El Culebra and El Cabesa, a pair of criminals, decide to take a bank at gunpoint, dressed as penitents. The plan is simple: Get in, get the money, take off all the loot quickly and catch the first flight to Brazil. But things get complicated when a man on his fifties, victim of the economic crisis goes into the bank loaded with explosives, threatening suicide. What would be the easiest shot in history, becomes a nightmare carnival.
The World is Ours
Ángelo, a boxing trainer, prepares Irene – La Perla Torres – to fight for a world title. La Perla tattoos a word on her heart, convinced that this will give her special power in combat. Things get complicated when everyone discovers that her rival, Katia-Machine Gun-Martínez, has also tattooed her heart.
She's a Sensation
Television & Series (15)
Many prisoners convicted of rape, murder and terrorism are released before serving their full sentences. Hours later, one of them is killed. Detectives Mora and Nieto take on the case.
Parot
A lawyer suffering from amnesia due to an accident tries to piece together the events leading to it, with the help of his wife.
I Know Who You Are
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Malviviendo is an online series produced by Diffferent and directed by David Sainz. In July 2011, the show released its fourteenth episode. The first episode launched in November 24, 2008 and became successful in a few months with positive reviews by the public. It employs mostly amateur actors, and those involved in the series do it for free. The series is set in the fictional neighborhood of "Los Banderilleros" of the Spanish city of Seville. The characters are a group of friends trapped in their everyday bad lives related to consumption of cannabis or other problems individual to each character. The show contains allusions to and parodies of a variety of other series, including Dexter, My Name Is Earl, The Sopranos, Lost, ALF, The X-Files, Prison Break, Sex and the City, The Brady Bunch, South Park, Boardwalk Empire, The IT Crowd and How I Met Your Mother. Also the Spanish program Callejeros chain Cuatro in the fifth episode called Callejosos. In the third episode of the second season spoof the header of the series Misfits, but the content of the episode is a parody of the movie Inception. In June 2009, the series got the support of Qualid. There it launched two mini-episodes minicapítulos. One focused on the character of Mateo and the other in "el Puto".
