Álamo won the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance as Javier Alfaro in May God Save Us (2016).

[2][3] He developed an interest in cinema at a young age after watching Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses.

[2] He trained at the Cristina Rota acting school and was a member of theatre company Animalario [es].

[5] Álamo starred from 2008 to 2010 in the aforementioned play as the Basque boxer José Manuel Urtain,[6] winning a Max Award for Best Actor for his performance.

[2] His portrayal of Alfaro, a violent police inspector under the spotlight of their superiors and colleagues chasing a rapist and murderer of elderly women, in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's thriller film May God Save Us (2016) won him the Goya Award for Best Actor.