Víctor Elías Villagrasa Álvarez (born March 3, 1991), popularly called Víctor Elías, is a Spanish actor, singer-songwriter, and musical director known for his role as Guillermo in the Spanish series, Los Serrano (2003).[2][3]
Biography
Elías was born on 3 March 1991, to father, Liberto Villagrasa Muñoz (1960–2007), a musician and his wife, Amelia Álvarez del Valle (1957–2022), an actress. He is a second cousin of Letizia Ortiz, the Queen consort of Spain.[4] At a tender age, Victor had developed interest in music and acting since his parents belonged to both career. He started with drumming till he got to playing piano. At four, he had started acting minor plays including La vida Breve, El cerco de Numancia or Mariana Pineda.
He debuted his first television screening at seven, in a 1998 episode of the Telecinco film series, Hermanas. Since then, he has featured as Nico in the series, Ellas son Así in 1999. He auditioned in 2001, and played the role of Carlos in the television series, Cuéntame cómo pasó. However, he was later ruled out since he was then older than the fictional character he was going to play. He had also appeared in the Antena 3 series, Antivicio.[5]
Between 2001 and 2002, Victor starred as a supporting actor in the daily series, Esencia de Poder on Telecinco, cinematic featuring in El espinazo del diablo and El florido pensil. In 2002, he appeared for four episodes in the series, Géminis, vendetta de amor, a film which aired in the Spanish broadcasting station La 1 de Televisión Española. Prior to the next year, he played Felisín in Ya No Vive Solo, as well as chosen by Luis San Narciso and Tonucha Vidal for Los Serrano on Telecinco in the same year. He formed the SJK band group in 2005 along his colleagues from the film Los Serrano including, Natalia Sánchez, Adrián Rodríguez and Andrés de la Cruz debuting his composed song, "I want to take off". He was also part of the group, The Folks in 2007 and 2008.
Victor had an intermediate degree in piano from the Escuela de Música Creativa for modern music in Malasaña, Madrid. He proceeded to SAE Institute where he studied Audio Engineering. In 2010, he took part in Cinco Horas con Mario by Miguel Delibes. He worked on the musicals, The Call, The Hole 2, A Boy from a Magazine (performed at the Teatro La Latina) as well as directed When You Least Expect It at Teatro Rialto. Afterwards, he joined the Calle Palma group. Between 2012 and 2013, Victor he featured as Alfonso in the TVE series, Isabel.
In film making, he has been a composer, arranger, performer and producer of the soundtrack, under the Got Music label — a recording studio for music, sound and sound coverage for events that he owns together with several partners — for Ni pies, ni head by Antonio del Real, with Christian Gálvez, Jaydy Michel, Antonio Resines and Jorge Sanz, among others and composer and performer of the soundtrack of Alacrán enamored by Santiago Zannou. The soundtracks for these films have been made in the Got Music recording studio located in Arcos de la Frontera, (Cádiz).
In 2014 he participated in Aula de castigo, a web series in which he played the role of Pablo. That year she received the Artista con Corazón award at the Madrid Woman's We in 2014.
In 2016 he participated in episode 1x05 of Paquita Salas by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, playing Víctor, a pizza maker. The following year, he participated in the film The Call.
In 2018 he played Tom in an episode of the web series Looser by Flooxer and participated in the daily series Servir y proteger on TVE for fifteen episodes, playing the role of Remo Sempere.
He has worked with numerous musicians such as Angy, Lucía Gil, Gemeliers, Calum, Münik, Belén Estrada, Cirilo, Diade or Manolo García.
Currently and for years he has collaborated with Yamaha Synths and is part of the Yamaha family of artists. He plays the keyboard and piano in one of Fran Perea's latest works, Viaja la Palabra, where you can see them on tour; with Nora Norman and Taburete and is the musical director of the Vive-Premios Dial since 2017 and of the tour of artists such as Pablo López, Ana Guerra, Sofía Ellar and Dani Fernández.
In 2019, he began a tour throughout Spain with La Llamada with artists such as Angy, Lucía Gil, Nerea Rodríguez, Ruth Lorenzo and Raoul Vázquez, among others.
Since 2021, he has been with singer Ana Guerra.[10] In October 2023, they announced their engagement and in February 2024, they announced their wedding which will take place in October 31 of that year, being held at the Prados Moros estate, in the Sierra de Guadarrama range in Madrid.[11] The wedding was attended by more than 300 guests, including several personalities from the world of music and television in Spain, and the ceremony was officiated by actor Fran Perea, a friend of the couple.[12] The event was hailed as the wedding of the year by several media outlets.[13] The religious ceremony took place the day before, this one much more intimate than the civil one. It took place in the Chapel of the Virgen del Puerto of Madrid, near the Almudena Cathedral.[14]