Ernesto Federico Alterio Bacaicoa (born 25 September 1970) is an Argentine and Spanish film, theatre, and television actor. He is the son of Argentine actor Hector Alterio.
Life and career Ernesto Federico Alterio Bacaicoa was born in Buenos Aires on 25 September 1970. Alterio is the son of psychologist Modesta Ángela Bacaicoa Destéfano and actor Héctor Alterio Onorato. His younger sister Malena also pursued an acting career. He is of Italian descent; his grandparents were originally from Carpinone, a commune in the province of Isernia, in the Molise region. During the Isabel Perón government that took power shortly after Malena's birth, his father Héctor Alterio was threatened by Triple A, so the family went into exile and settled in Spain (where Héctor was working at the time) between 1974 and 1975.
Settling with his family in Madrid when he was four years old, Ernesto suffered the uprooting that exile brings. He remained attached to his Argentine roots through family traditions. Like his father, Alterio acquired Spanish citizenship along with the Argentine one. He began biology studies but left to take up history, and continued with those studies for two years. Encouraged to be like his father, Ernesto said that he went "sideways, skirting the edge of the pond so as not to fall into it: music, photography, history..." until he made the decision to accept being an actor. He trained in acting under Cristina Rota.
He made his big screen debut in 1992 with a small appearance in Shooting Elizabeth along with Jeff Goldblum. It was followed by minor appearances in You Shall Die in Chafarinas and Mi nombre es sombra.
In 1996, he founded the theatre group Ración de Oreja (seed of Animalario) together with Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo, and Nathalie Poza.
He landed some early leading film roles under Fernando Colomo in the late 1990s with performances in The Stolen Years (for which he earned a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor) and . Starting in 2003, Alterio had a 15-year-long relationship with actress Juana Acosta, with whom he had one daughter.
He has starred in the cult miniseries Vientos del agua with his father, and has twice worked with director Marcelo Piñeyro, who frequently cast his father in roles. He works both in Spanish and Argentine television.
Selected filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1992 Tango Feroz 1995 Belmonte 1995 Morirás en Chafarinas (You Shall Die in Chafarinas) 1996 Tengo una casa (I Have a House) Nico 1996 Más que amor, frenesí (Not Love, Just Frenzy) 1996 Mi nombre es sombra 1997 Dos por dos Mateo 1998 Los años bárbaros (The Stolen Years) Jaime 1998 Insomnio (Sleepless in Madrid) Juan 1999 Los lobos de Washington (Washington Wolves) Pablo 1999 (Havana Quartet) Walther 2000 Kasbah Mario 2000 Yoyes Joxean Dorronsoro 2001 Salvador Dalí Juego de Luna (Luna's Game) Nano 2002 El otro lado de la cama (The Other Side of the Bed) Javier 2002 Deseo (Desire) Julio 2003 Días de fútbol (Football Days) Antonio 2004 Muertos comunes (Common Dead) Fermín 2004 Incautos (Swindled) Ernesto 2005 Semen, una historia de amor (Semen, A Love Story) Serafín 2005 El método (The Method) Enrique 2006 Los 2 lados de la cama (The 2 Sides of the Bed) Javier Sequel to The Other Side of the Bed 2008Rivales (Rivals) Guillermo 2009 Las viudas de los jueves (The Widows of Thursdays) Martín 2011 Infancia clandestina (Clandestine Childhood) Tío Beto ('uncle Beto') 2013 ¿Quién mató a Bambi? (Who Killed Bambi?) Edu 2014 Sexo fácil, películas tristes (Easy Sex, Sad Movies) Pablo Diuk 2015 Incidencias (Stranded) José María 2017 Perfectos desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) Antonio 2018 La sombra de la ley (Gun City) El Tísico 2019 Lo dejo cuando quiera (I Can Quit Whenever I Want) Tacho 2019 Ventajas de viajar en tren (Advantages of Travelling by Train) Ángel Sanagustín 2020 Te quiero, imbécil (I Love You, Stupid) Sebastian Vennet 2020 Orígenes secretos (Unknown Origins) Bruguera 2020 Un mundo normal (The Sea Beyond) Ernesto 2021Donde caben dos (More the Merrier)Alberto 2022 El cuarto pasajero (Four's a Crowd) Juan Carlos 2023 Mari(dos) (Co-Husbands) Emilio Moscas (Flies) Luis Machi Un funeral de locos Robert Todos los lados de la cama (Every Side of the Bed) Javier Karateka
Television
Year Title Role Notes 2017 Cable Girls Sebastián Uribe 2018 Narcos: Mexico Salvador Osuna Nava 2020 Someone Has to Die Gregorio Falcón 2021 Todos mienten Diego Su majestad Guillermo
Accolades {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! Year ! Award ! Category ! Work ! Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable"|
| || Best New Actor || The Stolen Years || ||
| || Best Actor || Football Days || ||
| || Best Actor || The Sea Beyond || ||
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