Jorge Sanz Miranda is a Spanish actor and is one of the most prominent actors of the Spanish cinema since the 1980s.
Background
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 Louisiana Miel (1979) directed by Pedro Masó.
Career
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). From then on, he started a prolific career as a child actor mostly in commercial films. His self-confidence and naturalness before the camera made him a popular child 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 adult by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sanz"s roles in the films of Fernando Trueba and Vicente Aranda solidified his career.
In 1986 he starred with Maribel Verdú, in El Año de las Luces, his first role as an adolescent. He followed this success with two more film under Vicente Aranda"s direction, Los Jinetes del Alba (1990), a made for T.V miniseries, and Amantes (1991) that was an international success.
Two years later he starred in Belle époque, directed by Fernando Trueba.
Jorge Sanz gave in Amantes and Belle Epoque two of his best interpretation and these works remain his best known international films. The decade of the 1990s confirmed his popularity and he made two roles a year. Combining comedies ¿Por qué lo llaman amor cuando quieren decir sexo? (1992) and Chá-chá-chá (1997) with more dramatic roles: Morirás en Chafarinas (1994), Libertarias (1995) although he admits that it feels more comfortable with comic roles. he has also alternated cinema with television
Taking part in television series like Los Jinetes del Alba (1989) and in comedies like Colegio Mayor (1993-1995), Pepa y Pepe (1995) and A Las Once en Casa (1999).
Originally cast to play the role of "Víctor Plaza" in Carne trémula (1997) by Pedro Almodóvar He was fired after the second day of shooting because of several disagreements with the director and was replaced with actor Liberto Rabal. He made two more successful films with Fernando Trueba: Louisiana Niña de tus ojos (1998) and El Embrujo de Shangai (2002).