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How many times, while watching a film or a series, have we found ourselves exclaiming, \u201cOh, Sim\u00f3n Andreu is in it\u201d? And it\u2019s hardly surprising, because the actor from Sa Pobla has been a constant presence on our screens since his debut in 1961. Andreu has played heart-throbs and priests, good men and villains, murderers and victims, aristocrats and commoners, soldiers and terrorists, popes and sinners, scientists\u2026 and even zombies! He has appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions, in addition to his work in theatre. Without noise or fuss, on or off the set, he has built a solid and respected career, marked by impeccable professionalism and a versatility that have made him the most international Mallorcan actor and an essential figure of Spanish cinema.<\/p>\n

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Born on 1 January 1941, Andreu discovered his vocation very early on. \u201cI used to cry so that they would let me take part in a school play,\u201d he recalled at the Mula Spanish Film Week. A poor student, at the age of 17 his father gave him a choice between becoming a carpenter or a blacksmith with his uncles. Unconventional and unwilling to settle, Andreu took the middle road and went off to do his military service. Afterwards, he moved to Madrid in search of a future that a pre-tourist Mallorca could not offer him. He spent some time selling vacuum cleaners until one day, while visiting the Cinearte studios with a friend, \u201cby chance they gave me an audition and they took me on,\u201d he explained in Diario de Mallorca<\/em>. He had only gone to watch Jorge Mistral and Paquita Rico perform.<\/p>\n

Thus, almost by chance, the prolific career of this self-taught actor began, someone who has never hidden the fact that he learned the trade by watching \u201cthe great actors on a screen.\u201d His first roles were in Siempre es domingo<\/em>, by Fernando Palacios, and Cuidado con las personas formales<\/em>, by Agust\u00edn Navarro. But it was not until 1964, with the Spanish-French co-production Un balc\u00f3n sobre el infierno<\/em>, directed by Fran\u00e7ois Villiers, that his career truly took off, thanks largely to his command of languages, something uncommon at the time. He had learned French at school and English during his military service, \u201cin some courses they gave in the afternoons which I signed up for so I could leave the barracks early.\u201d<\/p>\n

From that moment on, he has worked across half the world \u2014Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Russia\u2014 and has been directed by filmmakers such as Luciano Ercoli, Milo\u0161 Forman, Paul Verhoeven, Vicente Aranda, Eloy de la Iglesia, Fernando Fern\u00e1n G\u00f3mez, Jos\u00e9 Luis Garci, Agust\u00ed Villaronga and Pilar Mir\u00f3, among many others. Almod\u00f3var could also have been on that list, but Andreu was already filming in Australia. \u201cFor me, making a short film for someone who\u2019s just starting out is just as sacred as doing a feature with Tarantino,\u201d he said in an interview with AISGE. This commitment is reflected in a CV that includes everything from shorts and low-budget films to major productions such as James Bond<\/em>, Bridget Jones<\/em> and The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>. More often a supporting actor than a lead, certainly, but as he remarked at the Fancine Festival in M\u00e1laga, these are the roles \u201cthat make my career possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sim\u00f3n Andreu is a sincere, understated and modest man, with a wry touch and no fear of speaking plainly: \u201cI don\u2019t go to the Goyas because people shove you aside to take a photo.\u201d And though he has accumulated several awards and honours \u2014including the Premi Ramon Llull<\/em>\u2014 what he values most from all these years is that \u201calmost everything I know I\u2019ve learned through cinema.\u201d He is passionate about his profession, but says it hasn\u2019t changed his life. The people who truly have are \u201cthose I\u2019ve shared my life with: my wife, my children, my friends.\u201d Well, them\u2026 and the great James Mason, who, during the filming of El hombre de R\u00edo Malo<\/em>, told him: \u201c\u2018Bloody hell, you\u2019re a very good actor.\u2019 That kept my ego inflated for 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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