Gustavo Salmerón

Gustavo Salmerón García (born August 27, 1970 in Madrid, Spain as Gustavo García Salmerón), is a Spanish actor and writer, known for Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (2017), Mensaka (1998) and Asfalto (2000). From a very young age he became interested in cinema and began shooting homemade short films with his siblings and was attracted to the arts in general. At the age of eighteen, after finishing high school, he studied for a year in a town near Chicago, where he came into contact with the world of theater at Mount Vernon Drama School. However, his vocation as a painter was stronger and after presenting his drawings he was shortlisted for a scholarship at the prestigious Art Institute in Chicago. But he had returned to Spain for family reasons. Then he registered at the Faculty of Beautiful Arts of Madrid.

He regularly attended classes of Theater at the Nicolás Salmerón Cultural Center . They immediately offered him acting jobs in theater and television. Finally, the theater wins the game in the visual arts and Gustavo leaves the race to train as an actor.

He studied at different schools for more than fifteen years, including: Cristina Rota , Juan Carlos Corazza , Fernando Piernas and took courses with Augusto Fernándes, Marketta Krimbel in New York and the International Film School of San Antonio de Los Baños (Cuba), Mariano Barroso , Rafael Spregelburd , Phillippe Gaulier , etc.

After working in television, in different children's, youth and musical programs, telefilms and various theatrical productions, he arrives on the big screen with Julio Medem in La ardilla roja and since then participated in more than twenty films like Mensaka , Asphalt , More than love, frenzy , Everything is a lie or Out of the body , etc. He also shot two films in Cuba, Mambí and Operation Fangio . In New York he stars in The Other Shoe and in London Rain in the Shoes .

He has collaborated with many novice directors, as well as with established directors such as Luis García Berlanga, Blasco Ibáñez, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, in El rey del río or Mario Camus in La playa de los galgos.

In 2001 one feels attracted by the direction and rolls the short film Desaliñada with Candle Rock, Ernesto Alterio, Guillermo Toledo and Santiago Chavarri, by which it obtains the Goya award for the best short film in 2002 and numerous international prizes.

In 2017 he released a feature-length documentary about his family, Many Children, a Monkey and a Castle, which won the Goya Award for Best Documentary in 2018.

He is the partner of journalist and presenter Beatriz Montañez.