raise a Goya award It is a feat within the reach of few actors in our country, but, at 53 years old, Luis Tosar (Lugo, 1971) has achieved it up to three times. Some awards that accredit the protagonist of ‘Cell 211’ as one of the great interpreters of his generation and the history of our country, having given life to some of the most legendary characters in our cinema.
Behind him, a very long filmography that continues to expand now with the premiere of his latest film, ‘The infiltrator’directed by Arantxa Echevarría and co-starring Carolina Yuste. On the occasion of the premiere of this action thriller, which will hit our cinemas this coming October 11, the Galician and his co-star visit tonight’s ‘El Hormiguero’ Pablo Motoswhere they will talk about the recording and also about their personal lives.
Regarding this more personal side of Tosar, the truth is that there are few details that the actor wanted to reveal. Always hermetic regarding his family environment, what is known is that the one from Lugo forms one of the most consolidated marriages in the world of acting together with his wife, the Chilean actress Luisa Mayolwith whom he has had two children.
We tell you everything you need to know about Luis Tosar’s unknown private life: what his childhood was like in Galicia, his relationship with another famous actress and his love story with his wife.
Acting saved him from a rebellious and problematic adolescence
The Galician, born in a small village in Lugo on the banks of the Miño River, was not always clear that his professional path passed through the world of the Seventh Art. In fact, he spent his adolescence becoming the high school rebela “surly and lonely” person who felt “completely empty” and who completely surrendered to American movie culture. Graffiti artist and breakdance fanTosar got into more than one trouble during his first years of high school, even having a altercation with a police officer.
This is what he said on Albert Espinosa’s program ‘Camino a casa’, where he explained that he and his friends They used to enter a slaughterhouse in their neighborhood from childhood until they were surprised by an agent. “One day we went up to dance on the terrace and when we came down to the fourth floor we saw a silhouette and we were scared,” explained the actor, who then starred in a police chase. «In one of those, A shot rang out and we were frozen and terrified.“Tosar recalled, explaining that he “had shot into the air” to stop them. “It took us our lives to convince him not to take us to the police station because he had to justify that he had shot,” said the interpreter, who finally managed to get out of this situation unscathed and avoid the difficult task of explaining to his parents what had happened.
It was in the last year when He performed ‘The Lesson’ with his classmatesby Ionesco, found his true calling: to be an actor. «It was where I became clear that I wanted to dedicate myself to acting.», recalled the winner of three Goya awards in this same space. Encouraged by a high school teacherMavisa, who discovered this talent to put herself in the shoes of other characters, Tosar began to leave this rebellion behind and train more seriously.
Time ended up proving Mavisa right: almost 40 years later, the Galician already has three Goya awards and an extensive and award-winning filmography. «I knew I was going to go very far. One day we met and I told him ‘believe in yourself, you’re going to make it to Hollywood.’ And you have gone even further. “And what you have left,” said the teacher, with whom the interpreter still maintains a great relationship, on the La Sexta program.
His long courtship with the actress Marta Etura
Acting has not only helped Luis Tosar to direct his life and discover his true vocation, but also to find love. In 2003, during the recording of the film ‘The life that awaits you’the interpreter met the actress as well Martha Eturawith whom he fell in love on the set and with whom he began a relationship that same year.
Always very discreet, the couple spent years sharing the screen in numerous Spanish films, as happened in ‘Celda 211’. In fact, it was during the 2010 Goya gala when the actress wanted to loudly proclaim her love for the Galician by collecting the award for Best Supporting Actress for this same film. «I want to thank my love, for loving me so well, because I can always count on you. “I love you, love,” Etura said then.
However, the relationship would end nine years after it began, in 2012, a few months after the premiere of ‘While you sleep’, a film starring both of them. That year, the actress was seen with her new boyfriend, Gonzalo de Santiagothus confirming the end of their story as a couple.
A consolidated relationship with his wife, Luisa Mayol, and two children
However, this was not the last time that Luis Tosar would end up falling in love with a colleague. His current wife, Luisa Mayolis also a recognized chilean actressalthough he did not meet her on a film set. In fact, as they confessed in a recent interview with ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, their first meeting took place in the friends’ wedding: «She, a very good friend of the bride, also a Chilean actress; He, an Asturian producer, a very good friend of mine. But We didn’t meet again until many years later.», said the protagonist of ‘I give you my eyes’.
After this first meeting, the two met in Chile on more than one occasion, although it took almost two years until Tosar and his wife ended up letting themselves go and began a long-distance relationship. After one of the last times he visited the actor in Madrid, upon returning home he realized that “something was missing” and, when he returned to Spain for a seminar, he decided that he did not want to return to Chile: «I never left again. Many things started happening to me. A week before coming I lost the accommodation I had. I wrote to Luis to recommend something to me. And he offered me his apartment because he was filming in Torremolinos. Three days later the seminar was delayed. And he invited me to Malaga to film.” Since then they have not separated again.
It was in 2015 when the couple definitively confirmed their love and, just a year later, the two welcomed his first son, León. Shortly after it would arrive Luana, his second daughterwhich they also gave a name with an L “to close the circle.” The two little ones have grown up away from the media spotlight.