Víctor Elías

Víctor Elías
Born
Víctor Elías Villagrasa Álvarez

(1991-03-03) March 3, 1991 (age 33)
NationalitySpanish
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
  • musician
  • music director
Years active1995-present
Spouse
(m. 2024)
[1]
RelativesMenchu Álvarez del Valle (grandmother)
Letizia Ortiz (cousin)

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.

Personal life

Elías dated colleague Natalia Sánchez from 2006 to 2012,[6] as well as singers Chanel Terrero and María Torrejón in 2017 to 2018.[7][8][9]

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]

Filmography

Theater

  • La vida breve (1995).
  • El cerco de Numancia (1997).
  • Mariana Pineda (1998, Teatro Bellas Artes).
  • Ciclo Tebano (Edipo rey, Edipo en Colono, Antígona, Eteocles y Polinicies, 2004) de Manuel Canseco.
  • La vida breve (Teatro Real).
  • La zorrita astuta (Teatro Real).
  • La sonámbula (Teatro Real).
  • Fedra (2008–2009) de Juan Mayorga.
  • Cinco horas con Mario (2010).
  • Los ochenta son nuestros (2011).
  • Orquesta Club Virginia (2012).
  • No nos moverán (2013).
  • Comida a domicilio (2013–2014).
  • Cosas de tríos (2014).
  • AB Negativo (2014).
  • Enganchados (2014).
  • La llamada (2014–2020).
  • La pechuga de la sardina (2015) de Manuel Canseco.
  • Cómo matar a Julio Iglesias (2015–2016).
  • The Hole 2 (2015–2016).
  • Yo Sostenido. Sonata para juguete roto (2024).

Television

Year Title Role Chanel Notes
1998 Hermanas Telecinco 1 episode
1999 Ellas son así Nico 18 episodes
2000 Antivicio Antena 3
2001 - 2002 Esencia de poder Telecinco
2002 Géminis, venganza de amor La 1 4 episodes
Hospital Central Felisín Telecinco 1 episode
2003 Javier ya no vive solo
2003 - 2008 Los Serrano Guillermo "Guille" Serrano Moreno 147 episodes
2011 Punta Escarlata Ximo 9 episodes
2012 Isabel Alfonso de Castilla La 1 4 episodios
2015 Aula de castigo Pablo Hernández Vimeo 6 episodes (Webserie)
2016 Paquita Salas Repartidor de Pizza Flooxer 1 episode (Webserie)
2018 Looser Tom
Servir y proteger Remo Sempere La 1 15 episodes

Cinema

Year Title Role Director
2001 El espinazo del diablo Guillermo del Toro
2002 El florido pensil Torrecillas Juan José Porto
2017 La llamada Joseba Javier Ambrossi y Javier Calvo

Short films

Year Títle Role Director Notes
2004 Nuestro pequeño secreto Ana Martínez Almeida
Héroes de verdad Fran María Rodríguez Rabaldán
2009 Volver a subir Pablo Michael Cooper
Sin pensarlo dos veces Chus Gutiérrez Short film by the Government of Spain against Gender Violence
2010 La búsqueda
I.D Dani Víctor Heras Together with Natalia Sánchez
2012 El trayecto Miguel Nadia Martínez de Marañón With Megan Montaner
2013 La peor excusa del mundo Víctor Together with Natalia Sánchez, Lolita, María Barranco, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz and Cristina Pedroche
2015 Clases de conquista César Ríos Together with Nerea Camacho

References

  1. ^ "Ana Guerra y Víctor Elías (Los Serrano), nueva pareja sorpresa". El Mundo. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
  2. ^ "El sorprendente nuevo trabajo de Víctor Elías, Guille de Los Serrano". elmundo.es (in Spanish). 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  3. ^ Roldán, Alvaro (2019-08-20). "Víctor Elías: de arrasar como actor en 'Los Serrano' a triunfar en otra profesión". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  4. ^ "Amelia Álvarez del Valle: "Las mujeres de mi familia somos todas mandonas"". telecinco (in European Spanish). 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  5. ^ "Este mítico actor español podría haber sido Carlitos en 'Cuéntame'. Descubre por qué lo descartaron". FormulaTV (in Spanish). March 16, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  6. ^ divino, Equipo (2024-02-26). "Divinity - Moda, belleza, celebrities y tendencias". Divinity (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  7. ^ "Chanel Terrero y el bonito mensaje de su exnovio, Víctor Elías ('Los Serrano'), tras su victoria". Vozpópuli (in Spanish). 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  8. ^ Palmero, María (2022-02-09). "Víctor Elías (Los Serrano) cambia a Chanel (Eurovisión) por la cantante Ana Guerra". THE OBJECTIVE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  9. ^ Nast, Condé (2021-06-11). "Así ha cambiado Víctor Elías, Guille en 'Los Serrano', familiar de Letizia y ahora teclista 'a lo Nacho Cano' de Pablo López". Vanity Fair (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  10. ^ "Ana Guerra y Víctor Elías confirman su relación con un apasionado beso: "El amor lo consiguió"" (in Spanish). 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  11. ^ "La Reina Letizia y Fran Perea, protagonistas de la boda de Ana Guerra y Víctor Elías: los detalles del enlace, al descubierto". ABC (in Spanish). February 23, 2024. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
  12. ^ "Ana Guerra y Víctor Elías celebran su boda rodeados de famosos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Ana Guerra, sobre su boda con Víctor Elías: "Me encantaría que bajaran las expectativas"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  14. ^ "Ana Guerra y Víctor Elías: las imágenes de la ceremonia religiosa de su boda" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 November 2024.