Luis Jaspe

Jaspe's screen career started in Venezuela at the tail end of the 1990s, when he landed a role in *Huelepega: Ley de la calle* (1999) — a film centered on street children in Caracas that earned attention for its raw social realism. The follow-up, *Oro Diablo* (2000), kept him working in Venezuelan productions with a similarly grounded sensibility. A solid start, though the local industry's limitations meant the next chapter would have to be written somewhere else. The move to Spain changed things. His first significant Spanish film credit came with *15 años y un día* (2013), directed by Gracia Querejeta, a drama that won the Goya Award for Best Film that year. The same year, he appeared in *Libertador* (2013), Alberto Arvelo's sweeping biopic of Simón Bolívar — a production that, given its subject matter, must have felt like a direct line back to his Venezuelan roots even while working within a Spanish co-production framework. *Yucatán* (2018), a Spanish comedy-thriller, and *Maras. Ver, Oír y Callar* (2019) rounded out his feature work in that period (Filmaffinity). Television became a parallel track from 2018 onward. He appeared in *Gigantes* and *La Verdad* in 2018, then *Toy Boy* and *Mercado central* in 2019 — four series in roughly two years, which tells you something about the pace he was keeping. The upcoming slate is where things get genuinely interesting: a credit on Pedro Almodóvar's *Amarga Navidad* (2025) would place Jaspe inside one of Spanish cinema's most closely watched productions, alongside two further projects — *Bitter Christmas* and *Zeta* — scheduled for 2026 (IMDb). Two decades in. Still building.