Rubén Ochandiano

Rubén Ochandiano de Higes was born in Madrid on 3 October 1980. He is the nephew of actress and stage director Amelia Ochandiano. He trained as an actor under Juan Carlos Corazza and Manuel Morón. Ochandiano played bit parts in television series such as Médico de familia and Periodistas until landing a breakthrough role in high school soap opera Al salir de clase, portraying Marcos, the shy nephew of the school's principal, from 1999 to 2000. Ochandiano made his film debut in Flowers from Another World (1999). His performance in Maquis-themed drama Broken Silence (2001) as a sheep herder earned him a nomination for a Goya Award for Best New Actor. In the film, his character is forced by a policeman to drink a whole bottle of castor oil in a bar. In 2006, he played an anarchist in the television miniseries Vientos de agua. He portrayed "perverse and twisted" archbishop Oliva in historical drama series Toledo, cruce de destinos. In 2018, he was invited to join the AMPAS. In 2019, he appeared as an intermediate trader in the last three episodes of season one of Belgian-Dutch narcoseries Undercover, returning for season 2.