Rodrigo de la Serna

Lionel Rodrigo de la Serna (; born 18 April 1976) is an Argentine actor. He is known for playing Alberto Granado in the 2004 biopic The Motorcycle Diaries and Palermo in the Netflix series Money Heist.

Career De la Serna started his career in several smaller productions like Same Love, Same Rain and Nuts for Love. In 2000, he portrayed Ricardo Riganti in the Canal 7 series Okupas, now considered an Argentine cult classic.

In 2004 starred in the biopic The Motorcycle Diaries for which he won a Silver Condor award for best actor, an Independent Spirit Award for "Best Debut Performance" and earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played the role of Alberto Granado, the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their 8-month long journey through South America.

Over the years he has starred in several Argentine television series such as El Puntero, Tiempos Compulsivos, Sol Negro and Contra las cuerdas, for which he was nominated and received several Martín Fierro Awards, an Argentine radio and television award.

In recent years he played a leading role in the historical film Revolución: El Cruce de los Andes focusing on José de San Martin and the Crossing of the Andes, Chiamatemi Francesco (Call Me Francis), an Italian biographical film about Pope Francis, and the 2018 Netflix comedy film Yucatán. He also starred in Camino a la paz (Path to Peace) and To Steal from a Thief, which were both released internationally and de la Serna receiving a nomination for Best New Actor at the 31st Goya Awards for To Steal from a Thief.

In 2019 he gained prominence by joining the cast of the successful Spanish television show Money Heist for its third part as the character Palermo. He resumed his role in part 4 which was released on Netflix in April 2020.

De la Serna also starred in a few theatre productions in Argentina including Lluvia Constante for which he won a Premio Florencio and most recently El Farmer in the Teatro La Comedia in Buenos Aires in 2019.

He is part of the music group El Yotivenco, which formed in 2005.

Personal life De la Serna dated actress Érica Rivas from 1999 to 2010, with whom he had one child. From 2016 to 2021, he dated journalist Ludmila Romero, with whom he had two children.

Filmography Year Title Role 1995–1996 Cybersix 1997–1998 Son o se hacen 1999 Campeones de la vida Same Love, Same Rain 2000 Nuts for Love Okupas Ricardo 2001 Gallito Ciego 2002 Sol negro 2004 The Motorcycle Diaries Alberto Granada 2005 Botines Enzo 2006 Hermanos y detectives 2009 El Torcán Fontano 2010 Lo que el tiempo nos dejó San Martín: El Cruce de los Andes 2010–2011 Contra las cuerdas 2011 Mía El puntero 2012–2013 Tiempos compulsivos 2015 Camino a la paz Chiamatemi Francesco 2016 To Steal from a Thief El Uruguayo Inseparables Tito 2018 El lobista Matías Franco Yucatán Clayderman 2019–2021 Money Heist Martín "Palermo" Berrote 2023 The Rescue: The Weight of the World Julio Levy 2025 My Friend Eva Alex