LUIS SAN NARCISO

After studying Business at the University of Oviedo, when he was only twenty years old, Luis San Narciso saw his life change during a trip to Cabo de Gata in a Citroën ‘deux chevaux’. He landed in Madrid in the early 80s, during the full effervescence of Madrid’s ‘Movida’.

Pursuing his dream to become a stage director , he entered the Royal School of Dramatic Arts, but a year and a half working as an actor was enough for him to conclude that the stage was not his natural habitat. After a period in London, he returned to serve as an assistant director with Ángel García Moreno, a job he would continue to perform during the following six years. While selecting the cast for Telemadrid series ‘La otra familia’ in 1995, Globomedia signed him up as a casting director, a position where he has become a top figure in Spain’s audiovisual scene. In this capacity he has worked for landmark TV series like ‘Periodistas’, ‘Compañeros’, ‘7 vidas’, ‘Aída’, ‘Los Serrano’, ‘Los Hombres de Paco’, ‘Águila Roja’ or ‘Vis a Vis’, propitiating the small screen return of eminent Spanish actors like Juan Diego, Lola Herrera or Amparo Baró.

In the cinema, his first casting job was offered him in 1999 by one of the great figures of Spanish film, Elías Querejeta, in the movie ‘By My Side Again’, directed by the producer’s daughter Gracia. Since then he has worked for directors like Fernando León de Aranoa, Pablo Berger, Manuel Gómez Pereira, Alejandro Amenábar, Agustín Díaz Yanes, José Luis Cuerda, Ridley Scott, Woody Allen or Pedro Almodóvar.

To his credit, he has discovered for the big screen an endless list of professionals that are already part of the history of our cinema: Javier Cámara, Lola Dueñas, Belén Rueda, Fernando Tejero, Paz Vega, Paco León, Carmen Machi, Unax Ugalde, Candela Peña, Blanca Portillo...

An extraordinary physiognomist, he is artistic director of The Mediapro Studio and responsible for all the castings of the group’s series. He is a member of Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.