Koldo Olabarri

Koldo Abando Olabarri (born 19 November 1992, Bilbao, Spain), known as Koldo Olabarri, is a Spanish film, theater and television actor.

Life and career

He studied, trained and graduated in theatre, drama and acting (BA) in Ánima Eskola School of Drama 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. There he coincided with actress Ainhoa Artetxe, with whom he studied. He also trained with Argentinian stage director and drama teacher Juan Carlos Corazza.

Since 2010, he has worked in more than a dozen theatrical productions, more than a dozen television series and more than a dozen movies. In 2010, he performed the play Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira and staged at the Campos Elíseos Theatre. The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2011), in the 8th edition of the awards. In 2012 he participated in the production An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge, a musical comedy written and directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira and staged at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, along with Ainhoa Artetxe among other members of the cast. The production was very well received and was taken to different theaters in 2012 and 2013. The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2013), in the 10th edition of the awards. He was part of the Ánima Youth Theatre.

In 2016 he joined the young theater company of Pabellón 6 in Bilbao, with which he staged the play Romeo and Juliet directed by Ramón Barea, with Ainhoa Artetxe and Nerea Elizalde also among the cast.

In the year 2021 he was part of the cast of the comedy film Official Competition, along with Spanish actors Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, directed by Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, premiered t the 78th Venice International Film Festival and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

In 2020 he was part of the cast of the theater production of the Arriaga Theatre "Erresuma/Kingdom/Reino", directed by Calixto Bieito, playing Henry VI, a play based on the main tragedies of William Shakespeare.

In 2022 he was part of the cast of the Netflix original series Intimacy, along with Itziar Ituño, Patricia López Arnaiz, Emma Suárez, Verónica Echegui and Ana Wagener.

Filmography

Television

2022: Intimacy - Netflix 2020: Altsasu - ETB1 2020ː El Ministerio del Tiempo - La 1 2020: Vamos Juan - TNT Spain 2016/2018: Centro Médico - La 1 2016: Beta 2015: Eskamak Kentzen - ETB1 2014: Bienvenidos al Lolita - Antena 3 2012: Goenkale - ETB1 2012: Bi eta Bat - ETB1

Film

2021, Official Competition, dir. Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat 2020: Tres veces, dir. Paco Ruiz 2018: Ane, dir. David Pérez Sañudo 2018: Cuando dejes de quererme, dir. Igor Legarreta 2017: Versus, dir. Demetrio Elorz 2015: Playa de las Mujeres, dir. Iñigo Cobo 2013: Por un puñado de besos, dir. David Menkes 2012: Agua!, dir. Mikel Rueda 2010: (d)efecto, dir. Gotzon Aurrekoetxea 2010: Yerba, dir. Javier Hernández

Stage

2022, Sagastitarrak 2020, Erresuma/Kingdom/Reino, dir. Calixto Bieito 2016-2018, Chichinabo Cabaret, dir. Felipe Loza 2016-2017, Romeo and Juliet, dir. Ramón Barea 2016-2017, Triple Salto/Jauzi Hirukoitza, dir. Miguel Olmeda 2015, Planteamiento, Nudo y Desenlace, dir. Itziar Lazkano 2014, Romeo and Juliet, dir. Victoria Di Pace 2014: Egun Berri Bat, dir. Galder Perez 2012, An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge, dir. David Valdelvira 2011, Isn't it true that we will be forever?, dir. Marina Shimanskaya 2010, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, dir. David Valdelvira

Awards and nominations

Buero Vallejo Awards