Julen Jiménez

Julen Jiménez (born 4 August 1994, Amorebieta-Etxano, Spain) is a Spanish film, theater and television actor and dancer.

Life and career

He was born in the Biscayan municipality of Amorebieta-Echano in 1994. He studied, trained and graduated in theatre, drama and acting (BA) in Ánima Eskola School of Drama (2012–2016), training with David Valdelvira, Marina Shimanskaya and Algis Arlauskas, training as a method actor, under the Stanislavsky-Vakhtangov-M.Chekhov-Meyerhold methodology (Russian method), following the methodologies of the Russian classical school. He also trained in music and music theory with Roberto Bienzobas and in dance with Rakel Rodríguez. He also studied voice and oratory training with Alejandra Nóvoa.

In addition, he trained in the Grotowski technique with the Polish actor Jaroslaw Bielski and in theatrical laboratory with Richard Sahagún. He also graduated in film directing at the Basque Country Film School (2013–2015). Currently he is an actor and a dancer.

In 2016, he starred in the short film El Puente with Carmen Climent. In 2019, he played Nancho Lopidana in the film Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, directed by Daniel Calparsoro.

In 2016 he participated in the theatrical production Cálidos y fridos, a stage production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, based on the works by Anton Chekhov and directed by the Stage Director David Valdelvira, which was presented in the week of the FETABI international festival, the university theater festival that takes place annually in Bilbao (Spain).

Filmography

Television

2020, Altsasu, dir. Asier Urbieta 2020, La línea invisible, dir. Mariano Barroso

Film

2018, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, dir. Daniel Calparsoro 2016, Un último capricho, dir. Joseba Hernández 2016, El puente, dir. Xabier Xalabardé 2016, Cinco minutos y medio, dir. Pablo Alonso 2015, Contacto desconocido, dir. Pablo Alonso 2013, Below, dir. Maria Zabala

Stage

2017, Proceso a Jesús, dir. Algis Arlauskas 2013–2017, Escrito en la piedra (by Claudel), dir. Algis Arlauskas 2016, Carmen y Antonio, dir. Algis Arlauskas 2016, Cálidos y fríos, dir. David Valdelvira 2016, Blancanieves, dir. Galder Pérez 2015, El primitivo auto sentimental (by Lorca), dir. Marina Shimanskaya 2015, Relatos de Chejov (by Chekhov), dir. David Valdelvira 2015, El guante, dir. David Valdelvira 2014–2016, El pabellón del olvido (by Chekhov), dir. David Valdelvira

Dance

2016, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Opera), dir. Emilio Sagi, coreogr. Nuria Castejón 2016, Lucrezia Borgia (Opera), dir. Francesco Bellotto, coreogr. Martín Ruiz 2012–2014, Bailando el silencio, dir. Rakel Rodríguez

Opera

2017, Andrea Chénier, dir. Alfonso Romero