Alejandro Awada

Acting

Alejandro Awada

Born 1951-12-07 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alejandro Awada is an Argentine actor recognized for his work across film, theatre, and television. He's had notable roles in Historia de un clan (2015), The Aura (2005), Gone Fishing (2012), El marginal (2016), The Secretary (2020) and Yosi, the Regretful Spy (2022). He's the son of Abraham Awada, a Lebanese immigrant businessman, founder of the Awada clothing brand. He has four siblings, one of which is former First Lady Juliana Awada.

Acting credits

Nine Queens poster
7.8

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".

Nine Queens

2000

Gone Fishing poster
5.5

A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.

Gone Fishing

2012

The Unseen poster
6.5

The film "Los Últimos" takes us into post-apocalyptic not-so-distant future in which there is war over water. This war reaches Latin America and the story follows a young couple trying to escape refugee camp in Bolivia and find better life in the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The Unseen

2017

The Bar poster
6.3

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.

The Bar

2017

Partiendo átomos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Partiendo átomos

2005

No artwork available
8.0

Salvador is a translator with a left-wing militant past who can see how his former colleagues surrendered to the rules of capitalism. He meets a young Adventist with whom he will live a love story.

El traductor

2007

No artwork available
7.0

It was the Winning Project of the INCAA Contest on the crisis in 2002. Very black humor to tell a time that today evokes memory.

El 48

2004

Las voces poster
NR

Shortly before dying, dying, Ema tells her granddaughter about her grandfather. This reawakens in Clara, the girl's mother, an interest in knowing something about her father, whom she never met.

Las voces

2012

Arizona sur poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arizona sur

2007

Samurai poster
NR

A Japanese immigrant (Nicolas Nakayama) and a war veteran (Alejandro Awada) search for an exiled samurai in the mountains of Argentina.

Samurai

2013

La Voz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Voz

2010

The Aura poster
7.0

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

The Aura

2005

A Silent Death poster
6.7

Octavio, a hunting guide from southern Argentina, desperately fights to clarify the death of his niece Sofía, discovered shot in the hunting preserve where he works. The shot bursts into the darkness, unleashing an enigma that shakes the entire town. Octavio will be forced to unravel what really happened that night and thus confront a truth that threatens to change everything forever.

A Silent Death

2025

The Hairy Tooth Fairy poster
6.6

Lucía, an active little girl, looses a tooth. Santiago, her father, is an out-of-work boss, and her mother, Pilar, is a successful but overworked architect, reassure Lucía, by telling her that the Hairy Tooth Fairy (a mouse named Pérez) will come to her bedroom to collect her tooth, leaving some money in its place. A mouse who had been monitoring the situation tells another mouse, who in turn tells another mouse until finally the news reaches Pérez, The Hairy Tooth Fairy, who lives in a boat in the port along with hundreds of other mice. They receive the teeth that he collects, and then clean, shape and polish them so that they can be transformed into shiny round pearls. These pearls are then carried through the citys sewers until finally they reach the jewellers owned by Morientes, where an old friend exchanges them for their weight in gold.

The Hairy Tooth Fairy

2006

Felicitas poster
4.5

Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?

Felicitas

2009

The Games Maker poster
5.4

Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.

The Games Maker

2014

Ay, Juancito poster
4.8

A film about the life of Juan Ramón Duarte, Evita's only brother. His ascent, his excesses, and his demise, in the times of Juan Domingo Perón.

Ay, Juancito

2004

Whisky Romeo Zulú poster
6.7

Whisky Romeo Zulu tells the story prior to the crash of LAPA Boeing 737 that on August 31, 1999, caught fire after hitting an embankment in the center of Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. The disaster changed the history of civil and commercial aviation in Argentina, and the film recounts, from the standpoint of the director, a former airline pilot-how in some countries the safety of the flight is incredibly precarious.

Whisky Romeo Zulú

2005

La cola poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La cola

2012

Amateur poster
4.0

Martin is a lonely television director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor Isabel when he finds an amateur porn video in which she participates. However Isabel turns out to be the wife of the owner of the TV network where he works.

Amateur

2016

Kluge poster
2.0

Kluge a psychological thriller, a suspense story, about a French journalist, Anne, who is preparing a research paper on Argentina by interviewing female professionals. Travel to Buenos Aires for a series of interviews and begins with Marisa Losada, an illustrator of children's books. In the first encounter, an accidental exchange of identical cell phones takes place, and Anne receives shortly after a call from a certain Kluge who takes her for Marisa - whom she does not know personally - and makes a strange proposal to her.

Kluge

2010

El jugador poster
6.1

A retired gambler who works for a wealthy meat entrepreneur, travels to Mar del Plata where he must give a considerable sum of money to his boss's grandchildren.

El jugador

2016

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2 poster
6.8

Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate to tell the world his secret, that the mouse is the Tooth Fairy. Lucas and his family has to do everything in their power to help the sweet little mouse with its mission, which since time immemorial, is to make children happy...

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2

2008

Dangerous Obsession poster
6.7

An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.

Dangerous Obsession

2004