Joaquín Climent

Biography

Joaquín Climent (born in Requena, Valencia, in 1958) is a Spanish actor with a long career in film, television and theatre. He is best known as a supporting performer, a role he has moved between author-driven films and popular television series.

From the early 1980s he worked at the Teatro del Arte under Miguel Narros, and later with directors such as Adolfo Marsillach and Manuel Canseco. His film work includes titles by Pedro Almodóvar, such as Kika, and by Carlos Saura, such as Goya in Bordeaux, as well as more recent films such as Salvador. On television he became familiar to audiences through El comisario, and later appeared in Física o química and La promesa, where he plays the butler Rómulo Baeza.

His stage career includes productions such as Three Versions of Life by Yasmina Reza. Climent is regarded as a craftsman, valued for the solidity of his supporting roles rather than for star billing. He remains active, dividing his work between the stage and the screen.

Key films

• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), by Pedro Almodóvar, one of the director's best-known comedies.
• Kika (1993), also by Almodóvar, one of his more unusual films of the 1990s.
• Goya in Bordeaux (1999), by Carlos Saura, about the final years of the exiled painter.
• Mondays in the Sun (2002), by Fernando León de Aranoa, a portrait of unemployment in a Galician port city.
• Salvador (2006), by Manuel Huerga, about the last political prisoner executed in Spain.