Rafael Spregelburd
Biography
Rafael Spregelburd is an Argentine actor, playwright, translator and stage director.
Known For & Full Filmography59 Titles
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Osvaldo
The members of a diverse vigilante group formed to boost the police's image are put in jeopardy when they stumble upon an unexpected drug deal.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Leonardo Forrester
An Argentinian intelligence agent goes undercover in the Jewish community to gather information, unwittingly preparing the ground for anti-Semitic terrorist attacks. Years later, he decides to bring the truth to light.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Esteban
Things aren’t going well for Esteban. His record shop on the outskirts of San Telmo has gone bust. Esteban has had enough. On the bicentennial of Argentina’s independence he decides to call it day and put an end to the shop – and his marriage to Elisabeth. He wants his freedom – for Esteban has fallen in love again.
Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Briganti
Ariel, a ghostwriter with a scandalous life, falls into crisis when his wife leaves him. A compulsive smoker, overweight, and with a sense of humor as dark as his underwear, he suffers a heart attack while staying in a rented house in another country, alongside a girl he has just met. This emotional event begins to bring new meaning to his life and the lives of many people around him.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Camilo
Self-assured, mysterious, and captivating Linda agrees to work at an affluent home in Buenos Aires. Her charm sparks strong sexual attraction among all members of the family, exposing how fragile their externally happy veneer really is.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Capitán Hipólito Parrilla
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Rafael
The film follows the story of an OnlyFans star who becomes pregnant with a nepobaby, the son of a hotel magnate, and addresses the tensions between love, power, and media exposure.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Oreyana
A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Lucas
With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Gomez
Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as John William Cooke
With the Peronist government overthrown, with General PerĂłn in exile and the Liberating Revolution in power, four renowned Peronist leaders are confined in the distant and cold Unit 15 of the RĂo Gallegos prison. Faced with the imminent execution to which the political prisoners will be assigned, they decide that the only option to survive is escape. Leaving aside their personal and ideological differences, they plan one of the most spectacular escapes in Argentine history.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Police Commisary SerafĂn
X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Leonardo
MartĂn, a TV host of 42, has the urgent need of becoming a father. Leonardo, an agronomist of 45 and MartĂn’s partner for the past ten years, has doubts since he himself was adopted by his parents.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Toro
Mateo, a criminal under house arrest, works at a parking garage in downtown Buenos Aires and plans to escape. His routine is disrupted when Lara pays for an overnight stay and minutes later an armed man breaks into the place. Both witness a murder that triggers a deadly chase through ramps and levels of the building, forcing them to fight against time and criminals to escape alive from the labyrinth.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Sergio Dominguez
La Casa del Mar (The house by the Sea) is the story of the disappearance of Laura Ramos, Pelaza's research and it's consequences. But it is also the story of Daniel and his friends, their secrets, their resentment. The plot will become more complex as the investigation proceeds. Is Laura alive? Why are there so many secrets? What's Daniel hiding?
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Eduardo
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Analista
Esteban and Molly have been married for over twenty years. On a cold morning in June the couple realizes they have hit rock bottom and that their relationship is not what it once was. Marriage examines the different aspects that make a man and a woman click, those moments where a bond can become harder than a rock, but it will also illustrate the downfalls and all the little things that make a relationship worth fighting for.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Leonardo
When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Dante
Paz seems to have a perfect life. She has a job, a partner and friends but something's missing. In reality, there are things she is unhappy about. She feels anxious and burdened but can't bring herself to express these feelings. Until one day she turns to a strange therapy that will make her say absolutely everything she thinks. How would your life be if you only said what you think?
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Martin
A sports fan loses everything for being addicted to his team and soccer. He then starts a quest to find a cure and recover his wife's love.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Brisa’s daily life alternates between the world of show business, appearances, and the stark reality presented by his son Hilario, who fell into poverty as a result of his addiction to drugs. The film portrays an intense fragment of Susana and Hilario’s story, the difficulties that arise when she tries to keep her professional commitments, the elegance with which she manages to avoid the low blows and her pain; but, fundamentally, the film reveals how this woman faces a difficult process without losing her dignity or sense of humor.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Rafael
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Alejandro
Clara and Alejandro move into a new house. A few days later, he goes on a work trip and she is left alone, surrounded by moving boxes. That chaos makes her accept a series of random invitations that will take her away from the hermetic world she lives in.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
VĂctor, a reclusive, obsessive man, moves to an apartment in impeccable state. During his first night there, a damp stain appears on his room’s immaculate roof. The stain begins to grow until it’s everywhere.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Narrator (voice)
In April 1982 Dalmiro Bustos and Elena Noseda faced one of the most difficult moments of their lives, when their eldest son, Fabián, was sent to fight in the Islands, along with hundreds of conscript soldiers. Almost forty years after the events, Dalmiro, Elena and their two youngest children, Javier and MarĂa Elena, tell what they could not say at the time, in an attempt to follow Fabián's footsteps and put into words the anguish and pain that still remain.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Tincho
A married couple that has lost their spark faces an even greater crisis after a follied date night.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Roberto
MatĂas dreams of going to study music in Spain. He must convince his girlfriend to join him later and deal with his father's opposition. But the board changes completely when the Falklands war is declared and he is called to fight.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Mauricio Kiguel
A psychologist develops a particular and extreme couples therapy.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Óscar
Christian is a raising star in world football. He lives isolated, in a luxurious and lonely environment, besieged by fans, under pressure from the media and forced to honour commitments made by his father who acts as his manager. For the first time Christian feels the need to escape.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Araña
An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes…
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, Ivan, the frivolous son of a prominent Argentine journalist, embarks on a journey pursuing different geopolitical events around the world.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Rafael
With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Police Officer
Axel, a Spaniard with Asperger syndrome, decides to travel to Buenos Aires in search of his former companions, with whom he formed in the past a music band that was not successful. Axel meets again with Javier, a geography teacher, and Lucas, a health visitor; three estranged friends who reluctantly come together to become the ones they never were: almost legends.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Biguá, a port worker, awaits a son with his young girlfriend and embarks on the high seas. Javier, at 40 years old, has a wife he loves, works, enjoys a good time; and imagines recurring dreams. Another life, with another being very different, they cross as in a magical and mysterious dream. The film revisits the theme of the double and its question: will there be, somewhere in the world, a double for each one of us? And, if it exists, what would happen if we took their life?
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Facundo
Damián, Facundo, Luciano and Marcelo have been friends since childhood and they share the passion for classic rock and roll on vinyl records. Their relationship is also marked by other big subjects: friendship and girls. When one of them decides to get married the four lives stir up.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Miguel Renard
A renowned sommelier finds a way to communicate with her past self in an attempt to correct the mistakes that have shaped her life. However, each message sent triggers unexpected consequences, altering not only her present but also the fates of those around her. What begins as an opportunity to make amends for the past becomes a race against time to prevent everything from spiraling out of control.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Zara, an apathetic appliance store employee, unexpectedly becomes a celebrity after an unfortunate event with a famous actor. Fame and money become a curse for her. What rises fast, falls fast.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Nothing went as planned: what seemed to be an original idea (taking an international fashion event to a small town in the Argentine Pampas) ended up as a mysterious affair, with a mannequin who seems to have vanished, and who insists on leaving small clues scattered across the immense plains. But nothing seems to be too strange for Commissioner Sirota and her particular method which, this time, includes a clairvoyant, a legendary detective arriving from Santa Rosa and some picturesque “peritas” who choose to work at night, swinging to the rhythm of Ska. In the middle, a disturbing question: Is it a police case they are dealing with, or is someone taking them (the police, the whole town, the Italians – all of us, perhaps) for a fool?
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Hans Gunther Flögenhoefer
Roque Waterfall leads, at age 30, an unproductive life living off a small family inheritance that leaves him enough free time to wander around in the nights of Buenos Aires. One day he meets Hans, a German intellectual who will try to make a documentary about Roque and people like him, people who do nothing.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Pedro
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Acosta
Ezequiel is a film music composer that can't find the inspiration he needs to compose a new score and Paula is a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend whose mother has just came from Spain to meet her husband. Together they will try to solve their problems.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Percy Foster
The investigation about an alleged international spy after the Nazi refugees in Argentina gives way to a plot that expands, becomes delirious and branches off. A mockumentary that has, at its center, an elusive woman whose trail can be traced in the most emphatic convulsions of the 20th century.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Young Cornelia arrives at her father's old house to take her own life. As she attempts to accomplish her mission, she is continually interrupted by unexpected apparitions: a mysterious girl, a thief, and a lover.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Él
A romantic weekend getaway turns into a nightmare for a couple when a trivial argument unleashes a spiral of violence fueled by jealousy and unbridled passions.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as VĂctor Tellez
VĂctor Tellez is an intellectual, world-weary film critic who prefers to think in French and eschew the clichĂ©s of romantic movies...until he finds himself living a sappy, feel-good love story of his own.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Rodi
Mario had everything to succeed in music, but he failed and today he earns a living singing Sandro's songs at bachelorette parties, weddings and birthdays. On his last tour he will find the success he did not expect.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Octavio
Abril tries to find meaning in her own life. In the process, her perception changes; her skin transforms to the point of becoming a new one.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Luis
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Dario, recently divorced and an unsuccessful salesman, bets his son, Ariel, that if he gets outstanding grades in school he will invite him on vacation. To his surprise, Ariel is able to fulfill the challenge, so now Dario has to organize a dad-son trip without any money.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the Peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the 'Vecinos de Pompeya', a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio's last possession of value before stealing his heart.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Victor
A conflicted animation filmmaker travels to Argentina chasing after a girl he met online, only to end up living with her and her intimidating boyfriend on an isolated island on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Goldberg
Celina works at a remote tollbooth on a desert road, few days before Christmas, her father dies and Celina becomes a door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman so she can earn enough money to travel to Italy and find her mom.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. The madness of the globalized world and the local reality, of each one of them, is affected just at the moment in which the North American president begins to send posts on social networks, eliminating all trade with China.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A foreigner arrives to Floresta and stays in a shared house.