Imanol Arias

Manuel María Arias Domínguez (born 26 April 1956 in Riaño, León, Spain) better known as Imanol Arias, is a Spanish actor and film director.

Career
Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group performing in the Basque Country of northern Spain. He debuted on television in 1976 and his first film was Humberto Solás's Cecilia (1982). In 1987 he won the prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the role of Eleuterio Sánchez in El Lute: Run for Your Life (1987).

Since 1976 he has appeared in some seventy different films and television series. In 1996 he made his film debut as director in Un asunto privado. The only other work he directed was a TV programme in 1989.

Between 2001 and 2023, he starred in the Televisión Española prime-time series Cuéntame cómo pasó as Antonio Alcántara, the father of a Spanish middle-class family during the years of the rule of Francisco Franco, the transition to democracy, and the current democracy.

In 2013 Arias worked on the Spanish dubbing of the video game Battlefield 4 as Captain Roland Garrison.

At Gijón International Film Festival in 2014, he received the Nacho Martinez Award.

Imanol Arias is Ambassador for UNICEF.

On 7 April 2016, Imanol Arias was accused of tax evasion and money laundering in the Panama Papers scandal as the owner of an offshore company, Trekel Trading Limited, based on the island nation of Niue that held a bank account under his complete control at the Swiss bank Banque Franck SA.

In June 2024, Arias paid €275,000 in order to settle his debts with the tax office and avoid going to trial on tax evasion charges.

Filmography

 * La Corea (1976), by Pedro Olea
 * Elisita (1980), by Juan Caño Arecha
 * Cecilia (1982), by Humberto Solás
 * Labyrinth of Passion (1982), by Pedro Almodóvar
 * Demons in the Garden (1982), by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
 * The Beehive (1982), by Mario Camus
 * Bearn o La sala de las muñecas (film) (1983), by Jaime Chávarri
 * Camila (1984), by María Luisa Bemberg
 * Eternal Fire (1984), by José Ángel Rebolledo
 * La Muerte de Mikel (1984), by Imanol Uribe
 * Lulu by Night (1985), by Emilio Martínez Lázaro
 * Bandera Negra (1986), by Pedro Olea
 * Tiempo de Silencio (1986), by Vicente Aranda
 * El Lute: Run for Your Life (1987), by Vicente Aranda
 * Divine Words (1987), by José Luis García Sánchez
 * El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll be Free (1988), by Vicente Aranda
 * Alone Together (1990), by Eduardo Campoy
 * Veraz (1991), by Xavier Castano
 * A Woman in the Rain (1992), by Gerardo Vera
 * The Bilingual Lover (1993), by Vicente Aranda
 * Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas (1993), by Jaime Chávarri
 * Intruder (1993), by Vicente Aranda
 * Sálvate si puedes (1994), by Joaquín Trincado (director)
 * All Men Are the Same (1994), by Manuel Gómez Pereira
 * La leyenda de Balthasar el castrado (1995), by Juan Miñón
 * The Flower of My Secret (1995), by Pedro Almodóvar
 * A tres bandas (1996), by Enrico Coletti
 * Comanche Territory (1996), by Gerardo Herrero
 * Ilona Arrives with the Rain (1996), by Sergio Cabrera
 * Rigor mortis (1996), by Koldo Azkarreta
 * In Praise of Older Women (1996), by Manuel Lombardero
 * África (1996), by Alfonso Ungría
 * Buenos Aires me mata (1997), by Beda Docampo Feijóo
 * Quiero morir (2000), by Toni Meca
 * Waiting for the Messiah (2000), by Daniel Burman
 * His Master's Voice (2000), by Emilio Martínez Lázaro
 * A House with a View of the Sea (2001), by Alberto Arvelo Mendoza
 * Savages (2001), by Carlos Molinero
 * Besos de gato (2003), by Rafael Alcázar
 * Laura (2004), by Tote Trenas
 * La semana que viene (sin falta) (2006), by Josetxo San Mateo
 * Lo que tiene el otro (2007), by Miguel Perelló
 * Nocturna (2007), by Víctor Maldonado and Adrià García
 * Paper Birds (2010), by Emilio Aragón
 * My First Wedding (2011), by Ariel Winograd
 * Spy Time (2015), by Javier Ruiz Caldera
 * De sable et de feu (2019), by Souheil Ben-Barka
 * The Legacy of the Bones (2019), by Fernando González Molina
 * Offering to the Storm (2020), by Fernando González Molina
 * Retrato de mujer blanca con pelo cano y arrugas (2020), by Ivan Ruiz Flores

Television

 * Cervantes (TV series) (TVE, 1981)
 * Juanita, la Larga (TVE, 1982)
 * Anillos de oro (TVE, 1983)
 * Brigada Central (TVE, 1989–1992)
 * Querido maestro (Telecinco, 1997)
 * Camino de Santiago (1999)
 * Dime que me quieres (Antena 3, 2001)
 * Severo Ochoa. La conquista de un Nobel (TVE, 2001)
 * Cuéntame cómo pasó (TVE, 2001–2023)
 * Atrapados (2003)
 * Mentiras (2005)
 * Un país para comérselo (TVE, 2010)
 * Velvet Colección (Movistar+, 2017)
 * La última palabra, (2020)