Miguel Herrán

Miguel Herrán — Biography

Miguel Herrán is the Spanish actor best known for two Netflix series watched around the world: Río in La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) and Christian in Elite. He won the Goya Award for Best New Actor for his first film role, then reached a wide television audience, and he continues to work in both film and series.

He grew up in the Chamberí district of Madrid, took little interest in school and failed four years of his primary and secondary education. What changed his life was a chance meeting on the streets of Madrid with the actor and director Daniel Guzmán, who invited him to audition for the part of Darío in A Cambio de Nada (Nothing in Return). That 2015 debut brought him the Goya in 2016. Feature films followed, among them The Last of the Philippines and The Invisible Guardian. In 2017 he was cast as Aníbal Cortés, codenamed Río, in La Casa de Papel, which began on Antena 3 and was later taken up by Netflix; in 2018 he played Christian Varela in Elite.

In the same years he appeared in productions such as Alegría, tristeza and Tiempo Después, and in 2020 in Hasta el Cielo; his later filmography also includes Mahkum 77 and Canallas. He also acted in an advertisement for the Indian music platform Gaana, and is described as a motorcyclist as well.