He is known to international audiences for his roles in the films: Amantes (1991) by director Vicente Aranda and Fernando Trueba’s Belle Époque (1992).

[1] The youngest of five children, he would have followed a military career in the footsteps of his father, but his mother took him to an audition when he was nine years old and he was cast as the son of Jane Birkin in the film La Miel (1979) directed by Pedro Masó.

Valentina [es] (1982), based upon the novel of Ramón J. Sender, won him his first acting award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

In 1988, he had the leading role in Vicente Aranda’s If They Tell You I Fell, for which he obtained a Goya Award for Best Actor.

Jorge Sanz gave two of his best performances in Lovers and Belle Époque and these works remain his better-known international films.