Cuban Actor Ray Sánchez Candidate for the 2024 Goya Awards

November 8, 2023

Cuban actor Ray Sánchez has obtained a nomination for the 2024 Goya Awards in the Best Breakthrough Actor category thanks to the Spanish film "Licantropía".

The artist himself shared the news from his Facebook profile: "With great joy I receive the news that the film 'Licantropía' has 23 nominations for the 2024 Goya Awards, among them I have the immense satisfaction of being included in the category for Best Breakthrough Actor".

Sánchez, who currently resides in Spain, thanked "the entire team of actors and actresses, the technical and production team for this great adventure that continues to bring good emotions".

Additionally, he highlighted his gratitude to the film's director, Nieves Gómez, and to the production company Cine Megaguay Producciones S.L. "for all the effort and dedication they are putting in so that this baby flies high".

Finally, the Cuban actor acknowledged that "there is still a long way to go, but for me, it is already an award and great pride to be among this selection…Good luck to all my colleagues and long live cinema!!!", he concluded.

Alongside Ray Sánchez in this category is Charles Davis, one of his co-workers in the feature film, who also holds nominations such as Best Film, Best Directorial Debut, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Music, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress and Best Breakthrough Actress, among others.

"Licantropía" tells the story of Francisca the blind, "a woman tormented by her blindness. It doesn't matter to her to serve the dark side in the midst of her search for healing. Choosing that path will bring problems to her descendants. In parallel, Lucas, an expert hunter in a Spain that is in the midst of the Napoleonic war, seeks to hunt down the beast that roams the forest and killed his father: apparently it is a werewolf. He will end up in an abandoned stone house, where souls tormented by war and the unknown hide. Any of them could be the lycanthrope".

Ray Sánchez is a graduate of the acting specialty from the Professional School of Art (EPA) in Villa Clara, after which he worked for seven years as an actor in the Theater Studio of Santa Clara, his hometown.

The young man also served as a professor at the EPA teaching voice and diction, scenic acrobatics, body expression and acting until in 2017 he founded his own company together with three friends, Teatro del Agua, "characterized by always maintaining the aesthetic line and constant pedagogy as a form of self-improvement and for new generations", according to what the Cuban told the Almería Is Different portal.

Two years later, in 2019, he decided to leave the island seeking new horizons and new challenges because "when one emigrates it is because you don't have what you're looking for, whatever it may be", he added.

"I left Cuba and thought that if I couldn't act anymore that was it," he recounted to the aforementioned portal, but his life changed when he arrived in the Andalusian province, where he works as a professor of scenic acrobatics, body expression and applied voice at the School of Dramatic Art and Cinema in Almería.

He combines teaching with his acting work in both theatrical and cinematographic projects, in which he has said he feels very happy and which have brought him great joy such as this recent nomination for the 2024 Goya Awards.