Biography

Ignasi Guasch Martínez was born in 1981 in Cornellà de Llobregat. He first contacted with acting at the age of 16, with a monologue of "La vida es sueño", by Calderón de la Barca, at school. A year after, at school also, he joined the cast of "Antígona", by Salvador Espriu, and that was the very time he considered seriously to study acting. In 2000, at the age of 19, he accessed the Institut del Teatre and began studying dramatic art. His first play as a professional was "El coronel ocell", by Hristo Boitxev, at Teatre Estudi, and after at Teatre del Raval, both in Barcelona, under the direction of Martí Torras Mayneris. He also worked with him in "L'esvoranc", by Josep Maria Miró, and "Prime Time", by Martí Torras and Paula Blanco, first at Teatre Lliure and a year after at Sala Muntaner, always in Barcelona. In 2007 he first worked in TV being Michi Galvin in Empar Moliner's "Herois Quotidians", at TV3. In 2010 he began working in "Polseres Vermelles" (Red Band Society) in the role of Dr. Abel. He would repeat in the second (and finale) season, in 2012. In 2011 he moved to Mallorca to work in "Algú que miri per mi" (Someone who whatch over me, by Frank McGuinness), under the baton of Alex Tejedor, in the role of Michael Watters. This theatrical performance won three Escènica prizes, the performing arts prizes of the Balearic Islands. He also worked with Pep Tosar in "El Mestre i Margarita", by Mikhaïl Bulgàkov; Pepa Fluvià in "Magnetismes", by Elisenda Guiu; Alberto Díaz and the theater company La Ruta 40 in "El llarg dinar de Nadal" (Long Christmas Dinner), by Thornton Wilder (a play that is on the stage since november 2014, with which they won a Butaca prize, the performing arts prizes of Catalonia, for best work in small format, in 2015); Albert Prat (again in the theater company La Ruta 40) in "La col·lecció" (The collection), by Harold Pinter; Pavel Bsonek in "La conferència de Wannsee", by Filip Nuckolls and Vladimír Cepek; or Sadurní Vergés in "Rosa Mutabilis", by Sadurní Vergés. In cinema he worked with Alicia Cifredo in "Me suena tu cara", with Pedro Barbero Abreu in "Blue Rai", by Carlos Franco and Pedro Barbero Abreu (the film that won the Biznaga audience prize in the Malaga's festival in 2017), and with Belén Funes in "La inútil", by Marçal Cebrian and Belén Funes. He also works as dubbing actor for the Catalan Corporation of Audiovisuals Media (CCMA). In the past, as a musician playing guitar (and singing and composing) he had a band, ToquiQuiToqui, playing americana music, with which he released a record, "Un viatge al voltant del Sol" (A journey around the sun).

- IMDb mini biography by: Anna Guasch Martínez