JORDI MOLLA is one of Spain's best-recognized artistic personalities: an actor, director, painter and writer.
Molla trained as an actor at the Barcelona Institute of Theatre, also taking acting classes in Italy, Hungary and England. As an actor, he has worked in many films for such prestigious directors as Bigas Luna, Pedro Almodovar, Peter Greenaway, Montxo Armendáriz, Ricardo Franco and Fernando Colomo.
Jordi first received acclaim in Bigas Luna's Jamon, Jamon in 1992. Since then, he has appeared in films including Montxo Armendariz' Historias del Kronen (1994); Pedro Almodovar's La Flor De Mi Secreto (1994); Gerardo Vera's La Celestina (1996), for which he received a Goya Award nomination for Best Actor, Ricardo Franco's La Buena Estrella (1997), for which he won the Butaca Award for the Best Catalan Film Actor and the Best Actor Award at the Ondas Awards, as well as sharing the Best Actor Award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival and receiving a Goya Award nomination for Best Actor; Fernando Colomo's Los Años Bárbaros (1998); Bigas Luna's Volavérunt (1999), Mateo Gil's Nobody Knows Anybody (1999), for which he was nominated for the Fotogramas de Plata's Best Movie Actor Award; Gerardo Vera's Segunda Piel (1999), for which he also received a Goya Award nomination for Best Actor; Bigas Luna's Son de Mar (1999); Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1 and Part 2 (2003/04); Daniel Calparsoro's Ausentes (2005); and Antonello Belluco's Antonio Guerriero di Dio / Il Santo (2006). He also starred in Renzo Martinelly's The Stone Merchant, Miguel Courtois' Gal and Angelo Longoni's telefilm Caravaggio, Mary McGuckian's A.R.T. in Las Vegas and Steven Soderbergh's Che.
In 2001, Molla made his Hollywood debut in the critically acclaimed film Blow opposite Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, as Colombian drug smuggler Diego Delgado. In 2003, he was in Michael Bay's comedy crime thriller Bad Boys II opposite Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, and in 2004, starred in John Lee Hancock's The Alamo, opposite Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, and Jason Patric. Molla was also seen as King Philip II of Spain in Elizabeth: The Golden Age with Cate Blanchett. He also finished shooting 88, a feature film that he wrote and directed.
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