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Spanish actor Julian Ortega, recognized for showing in widespread Spanish-language Netflix drama collection “Elite,” has died, the nation’s actors and actresses union has introduced. He was 41.
“Our deepest condolences to his household and mates,” the union wrote in a press release Monday.
Ortega, son of Spanish actress Gloria Muñoz, was born in Madrid in 1983. He attended drama faculty within the Spanish capital, in keeping with the union.
He then launched his more-than-two-decade-long on-screen profession, showing in Spanish-language movies, similar to 2000 drama “El Otro Barrio” (“The Different Aspect”) and 2008 horror fantasy “La raíz del mal.”
He appeared in a number of tv collection in Spain, earlier than rising to worldwide prominence after showing in six episodes of Netflix’s “Elite.”
Ortega performed a restaurant supervisor within the murder-mystery infused highschool drama, which facilities on rich college students at a personal faculty.
His most up-to-date appearances had been in drama collection similar to “The Countryside” (initially, “El Pueblo”) and “4 estrellas.”
“You had been an important man, humble, at all times smiling, beneficiant, considerate… such a great colleague… Thanks, for every little thing,“ wrote his “Countryside” costar Ruth Diaz in an Instagram post.
“How good to share these months on El pueblo and to have been in a position to get to know you a bit of bit. You have got gone too quickly,” she added.
Ortega additionally labored on theater initiatives, together with 2021 play “Ira,” which he wrote after which starred in alongside his mom, in keeping with the Spanish Theatre in Madrid.
His reason behind loss of life has not been formally introduced.