Santiago Segura

Santiago Segura Silva is a Spanish filmmaker and actor. He has also worked to a lesser extent as a television presenter, voice actor, and comic book writer, as well as a collector of original comic books. At the age of 12 he began making films with a Super-8 camera and, after a recommendation from Fernando Trueba, began to make films in 35 mm, funded by his appearances in TV game shows. He received early recognition for his performance as a metalhead in the 1995 film The Day of the Beast, which won him the Goya Award for Best New Actor. Great success would come with his directorial feature debut, 1998's dark action-comedy and box-office hit Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law, in which he stars as José Luis Torrente, a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and fascist former police officer. The film won Segura the Goya Award for Best New Director, it was followed by a film series of five sequels: Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella, Torrente 3: el protector, Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis, Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas, and Torrente for President, making it the highest-grossing Spanish film series. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiag...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)