Biography
Luis Tosar (born 13 October 1971) is a Galician actor. Born in Cospeito, Galicia, Spain, on 13th October 1971, he is best known internationally for his villain role in Miami Vice.
Known For
Complete Filmography

La deuda
2025
Lucas, a 47-year-old boy, and Antonia, an old woman, live together in an apartment in the center of the city. Their life goes on as usual until an inv...

Amanece en Samaná
2024
as Santi

Undercover
2024
as Ángel "el Inhumano"
Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

We Treat Women Too Well
2024
as Antonio
Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her wedding ...

The Courier
2024
as Francisco Escámez
After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable cra...

All the Names of God
2023
as Santi
After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.

The Fantastic Golem Affairs
2023
as Toni
Follows two friends, Juan and David, they will find themselves on a rooftop terrace after an intense party in Madrid. Juan witnesses David falling to ...

Fatum
2023
as Sergio
After receiving a tip-off, compulsive gambler Sergio returns to the betting house trying to recover all the money he has lost , but another gambler bu...

Madreselva
2023
as Ramsés

On the Fringe
2022
as Rafael
A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a...

The Critic
2022
as Self
A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and ha...

Monkey Business
2022
as Luismi
Joaquin, Brujo and Luismi, three neighbourhood scoundrels, meet again after twenty years. Brujo and Luismi are still unemployed while Joaquin swears h...

19
2022
as Himself
A delicate portrait of the longing for security amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Code Name: Emperor
2022
as Juan
Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.

Concrete and Steel
2022
Victor and Nacho are lifetime friends and mafiosos. They’ve been tortured and chained to a cement block. While Nacho struggles desperately to break fr...

Maixabel
2021
as Ibon Etxezarreta
In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the m...

The Vault
2021
as Simón
Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a ...

Sky High
2020
as Rogelio
A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.

Adú
2020
as Gonzalo
In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the hol...

Out in the Open
2019
as Pastor
A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains ...

Advantages of Travelling by Train
2019
as Martín Urales de Úbeda
After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man wh...

Eye for an Eye
2019
as Mario
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When...

The Incredible Shrinking Wknd
2019
as Alba's Father (voice)
Navarra, Spain. Alba has just turned thirty and is about to enjoy a weekend with her boyfriend and her friends in an isolated country house, but soon ...

Gun City
2018
as Aníbal
Barcelona, Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a sig...

Crime Wave
2018
as Cosme
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.

Yucatán
2018
as Lucas
Two white collar thieves compete fiercely against the other trying to steal to an old baker the millions he won on the lotto.

Getaway Plan
2017
as Lieutenant
A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.

1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines
2016
as Lt. Martín Cerezo
The Philippines, 1898. Fifty Spanish soldiers arrive in the small village of Baler to rebuild an outpost. Although the war against the Filipinos and t...

Toro
2016
as López
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). Af...

To Steal from a Thief
2016
as 'Gallego'
Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unf...

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
2015
Producer
Teenagers Birdboy and Dinki have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world...

Retribution
2015
as Carlos
While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and ...

ma ma
2015
as Arturo
After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo tr...

Nothing in Return
2015
as Padre Darío
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an o...

Os fenómenos
2014
as Lobo
Coast of Almeria, Spain. When Neneta, who lives in a van, is abandoned by her partner, she decides to return with her baby to her hometown in Galicia.

Dying Beyond Their Means
2014
as Antonio
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripp...

Shrew's Nest
2014
as Padre
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her y...

The Kid
2014
as Jesús
Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate t...

A Night in Old Mexico
2013
as Panamá
Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to retire quietly in a dismal trailer park. Instead he hops in his Cadillac a...

Cholera
2013
Cholera: Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.
Encallados
2013
as Luis Tosar

100% CEF
2012
as Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Documentary about Celso Emilio Ferreiro, a symbol of anti-Francoism and a leading poet in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s.

A Gun in Each Hand
2012
as L.
J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange...

Operación E
2012
as José Crisanto
A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Operación E
2012
Producer
A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Fuck My Family
2012
as Manuel Añón
Continues the romantic story of Javier and Angela, who, after having sworn eternal love and having their first child, decide to divorce.

The Apostle
2012
as Xavier (voice)
A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that i...

Sleep Tight
2011
as César
César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works ...

Crebinsky
2011
as Comandante
Torrential rains cause the swollen river, whose waters inundate a village. The current drags the cow Crebinsky and his brothers, who miraculously reap...

Even the Rain
2011
as Costa
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privati...

Mr. Nice
2010
as Craig Lovato
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...

Lope: The Outlaw
2010
as Fray Bernardo
A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope retur...

18 Meals
2010
as Edu
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of cr...

18 Meals
2010
Producer
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of cr...

La noche que dejó de llover
2009
as Spleen

Cell 211
2009
as Malamadre
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a...

The Limits of Control
2009
as Violin
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...

Normal con alas
2007
as Father Serafín
Pancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuan...

Hotel Tívoli
2007
as Suso
Following the random path of a lighter that is being lost by their owners occasionally in different parts of the world, this story is built with the c...

Casual Day
2007
as Cholo
Casual Day is a company practice imported from the USA. Every Friday the workers are asked to exchange their suits for more informal attire. Ruy has a...

Taxi?
2007
The city taxi drivers have followed a course on kindness. If you do not make the grade, you will not arrive at your destination.

Celia's Lives
2006
as Miguel Ángel
The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of f...

Miami Vice
2006
as Arcángel de Jesús Montoya
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox C...
El mundo alrededor
2006
as Florindo

Cargo
2006
as Baptist
A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.

El oficio de actor
2005
as Itself
Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the ch...

Aupa Etxebeste!
2005
as Ladrón
The same day that the Etxebeste Family are leaving for their holidays, they lost all their money. They have to keep up appearances in front of the res...

The Night of the Brother
2005
as Lorenzo
The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from dar...

With Good Reason
2004
as (segment "Por tu propio bien")
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. f...

Unconscious
2004
as Salvador
A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Your Next Life
2004
as Rai
A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria leaves a cantankerous dairy farmer dead and anothe...

The Weakness of the Bolshevik
2003
as Pablo López
After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a d...

Take My Eyes
2003
as Antonio
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He sa...

Silvia's Gift
2003
as Carlos
Silvia decides to commit suicide and leaves a video note saying that she wishes to donate her organs and save the lives of a few strangers.

El lápiz del carpintero
2003
as Herbal
A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War

13 Curses
2002
as Mateo
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her...

Mondays in the Sun
2002
as Jose
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet main...

Angel of Death
2002
as Antonio
The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets of the Old Town in time-hon...

Don't Tempt Me
2001
as Policía
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Visionarios
2001
as Delegado del gobierno
An aspiring teacher (Eduardo Noriega) falls for a maid (Ingrid Rubio) in a village where people claim they see the Virgin Mary.

Lena
2001
as Gitano
Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fall...

Kisses for Everyone
2000
as El Bombilla
Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancer...

El váter susurra
2000

A Love That Kills
2000
as Antonio
The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but p...

Common Wealth
2000
as Gómez
Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that will force her to face the wrath...

Leo
2000
as Paco
Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard...

I Know Who You Are
2000
as Estévez
Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffe...

Heart of the Warrior
2000
as Police Detective #1
Beldar and Sonja, a pair of thieves, steal a precious gem from the crypt of the Order of the Thousand Eyes, a daring act that will lead to unforeseen ...

Jealousy
1999
as Luis
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions ...

Flowers From Another World
1999
as Damián
Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twent...

Atilano, presidente
1998
as Cazorla
Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ...
O matachín
N/A
Two small-time dealers, Fran and Tuto, go to the airport to look for Lola, Fran's girlfriend. Lola comes from Venezuela carrying cocaine in her stomac...
Golpes
N/A
El Puma
N/A