Jorge Sanz

Jorge Sanz Miranda (born 26 August 1969) is a Spanish actor and one of the most prominent actors of the Spanish cinema since the 1980s. He is known to international audiences for his roles in the films: Amantes (1991) by director Vicente Aranda and Fernando Trueba’s Belle Époque (1992).

Early life

Jorge Sanz Miranda was born on 26 August 1969 in Madrid. The youngest of five children, he would have followed a military career in the footsteps of his father, but his mother took him to an audition when he was nine years old and he was cast as the son of Jane Birkin in the film La Miel (1979) directed by Pedro Masó. From then on, he started a prolific career as an actor mostly in commercial films. His self-confidence and naturalness before the camera made him a popular actor in the Spanish screens.

Between the ages of nine and fifteen, he played in ten features within and beyond the Spanish film industry. Most notably as the young Conan in Conan the Barbarian (1982), a role played as an older Conan by Arnold Schwarzenegger. His role as a rascal in Crónica del alba. Valentina (1982), based upon the novel of Ramón J. Sender, won him his first acting award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.