Tonight Álvaro Cervantes and Karra Elejalde, two of the protagonists of the new Netflix series ‘Collision’which has been available on the platform since last October 30. A Spanish thriller directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo in which a group decides to rob a bank branch in Madrid in 2013, but a sudden accident alters their plans.
The plot revolves around a quite specific context, as it places its protagonists in one of the hardest years of the Spanish economic crisis. That is why the characters by Karra Elejalde and Álvaro Cervantesfather and son in the series, decide to carry out a bank robbery accompanied by other great faces of Spanish cinema such as Luis Zahera or Tamar Novas. A project that shows how the career of the young man from Barcelona who rose to fame with the film “Three Meters Above Heaven” has progressed.
Álvaro Cervantes’ artistic career began in 2005, in the short films ‘The Invasion of the Mutant Parents’ and ‘Dibujo de David’. His debut in the world of feature films would not come until 2008 with the film ‘Pretextos’ and he began to be recognized by the public after playing the Pollo character in the successful film starring Mario Casas in 2010.
The actor won the Goya for best supporting actor for his role in ‘Sorda’
However, since then, his versatility as an actor has allowed him to take on highly complex roles, including the one he played in the film ‘Sorda’. In this feature film, Cervantes plays Héctor, the hearing partner of its protagonist, Ángela, starring Miriam Garlo. A project that allowed him to understand the complex reality of people with hearing disabilities and for which won the Goya for best supporting actor in the last edition of February 2026.
An award that he won after a lifetime of efforts following a vocation that began since his childhood, as he explained in an interview for “El Español.” “My parents did not intervene in my vocation. They always accepted that I wanted to be an actor because I was a responsible son.. “They have allowed me to be who I wanted to be,” he explained to the media. A surprising way of educating if you take into account that both were completely alien to the world of cinema and entertainment.
Born in Barcelona in 1989, Álvaro Cervantes grew up in a hard-working and humble family, with culture and art always present. In 1993 his sister was born, Ángela, with whom I would share that love of acting thanks to the freedom and education they received from their peers. “They are very empathetic people, very respectful, who know how to listen, who adapt to each circumstance,” said the actor.
Both brothers share a vocation for acting
Thanks to this, both he and his sister, Angela, were able to give free rein to their love for acting from a very early age, when the actor dedicated himself to performing homemade recreations of some of your favorite movieseven creating her own scripts, while the young woman and her parents dedicated themselves to observing how a vocation emerged that would eventually become her profession.
“My brother started working very young. I was 10 years old and I already saw him dedicating himself to acting. Seeing it at home and having a reference so close helped me a lot.. I saw that it was possible,” Angela assured the magazine “HOLA”. Following her example, the young woman managed to be nominated in the same edition of the 2026 Goya Awards as best leading actress for her role in ‘La Furia’. A project for which she received the Silver Biznaga at the 2025 Malaga Festival and the Gaudí Award as best actress.
Now, the young Álvaro Cervantes is part of the cast of ‘Colisión’, the new Netflix series in which he has shared space with some of the best-known actors on the Spanish scene, such as Karra Elejalde. Both will go to ‘El Hormiguero’ tonight to present the project and talk about their experiences both in recording and in the film industry.