Career
Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group performing in the Basque Country of northern Spain. He debuted on television in 1976 and his first film was Humberto Solás"son Since 1976 he has appeared in some 70 different films and television programmes.
In 1996 he directed Un Asunto Privado.
The only other work he directed was a television programme in 1989. Currently, he appears in the TVE most rewarded series Cuéntame cómo pasó (Tell me how it happened) in the role of the father of a Spanish middle-class family, during the last years of Spain"s Francoist government and the transition to democracy.
In 2013 Arias worked in the Spanish dub of the videogame Battlefield 4 as Captain Roland Garrison. Imanol Arias is Ambassador for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.