Winner of the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2005 film, Camaron: When Flemenco Became Legend. He also starred in 2010's The Losers.
He made his debut in a 1999 episode of the TV series, A las once en casa.
He played The Spaniard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and in 2011 began appearing on the TV series, Piratas.
He attended the Spanish Cinema Awards Goya Cermony with Actress Barbara Goenaga, to whom he was romantically linked, in 2006 and 2010.
He appeared with Marcia Gay Harden in the 2013 film, The Librarian.
