# Miguel Ángel Muñoz

Miguel Ángel Muñoz Blanco (born 4 July 1983) is a Spanish actor and singer.

## Career

Muñoz began his career as an actor at the age of eleven in the film El Palomo cojo (1995), followed by many television appearances. From 1997 to 1998, he was a regular on the soap opera Al salir de clase, played a recurring character from 2000 to 2002 on the series Compañeros, and dubbed the voice of Sinbad in the Spanish version of the 2003 American animated adventure film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
From 2002 to 2004, Muñoz starred as Roberto Arenales on the television series Un Paso Adelante, for which he took dance classes. The series, much like the American show Fame, was set in a performing arts school. It became an international hit and proved to be the breakout role for Muñoz. Muñoz joined several of his castmates to form the band Upa Dance, including: Beatriz Luengo, Pablo Puyol, Monica Cruz, Silvia Marty, Edu Del Prado and Elizabeth Jordan. The group released four albums, from 2002 to 2005, all scoring in the top 5 on the charts in Spain (two at Nº1), with one also reaching Nº1 on the charts in France.
In 2004, Muñoz released the single "Dirás que estoy loco", a song he had performed in the series. The song was ranked Nº1 in Spain for eleven consecutive weeks, selling 180 000 copies. In 2006, Muñoz released his first solo album, M.A.M., which was certified Gold in Italy and Silver in France. The album included "Dirás que estoy loco", which was released as a single across Europe, reaching Nº2 on the charts in Italy and peaking at Nº3 in France. In 2008, Muñoz won a European Border Breakers Award Award for M.A.M..
Along with his success as a recording artist, Muñoz continued acting, performing steadily on television and film, and appearing on stage in El Cartero Neruda in 2006. He also joined the series Mis Adorables Vecinos in 2006. Muñoz appeared in the film The Borgia (2006) and the horror film Intrusos en Manasés (2008). From 2007 to 2008, Muñoz acted in the title role of Úlises in the series El síndrome de Úlises.
In 2010, Muñoz played his first high-profile English-speaking role as Antegua in the miniseries Ben Hur. In 2011, he was Toti Blanco in the series Vida loca. The following year, he joined the third season of Capadocia, playing the character Hector Bolaños.
In late 2014 Muñoz made it to fourth place as a contestant on the fifth season of the series Danse avec les Stars, in France. He finished in fourth place with his partner, Fauve Hautot.

## Personal life

From 2018 to 2020, Muñoz was in a relationship with Ana Guerra.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1994 | La vida siempre es corta | | Miguel Albaladejo | Short |
| 1995 | El Palomo cojo | Felipe | Jaime de Armiñán | |
| 1997 | Mamá quiere ser artista | Junior | Ángel Fernández Montesinos | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 1997–98 | Al salir de clase | Javi Castro | Pepa Sánchez Biezma, Toni Sevilla, ... | TV series (77 episodes) |
| 1999 | Condenadas a entenderse | Lurri | Norberto López Amado | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2000 | ¡Ala... Dina! | Repartidor de pizzas | José Pavón | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2000 | Policías, en el corazón de la calle | Raúl | César Rodríguez Blanco | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2000–02 | Compañeros | Charlie | José Ramón Ayerra, Manuel Ríos San Martín, ... | TV series (16 episodes) |
| 2001 | Gente pez | Chaval buzón | Jorge Iglesias | |
| 2001 | Periodistas | Policía | Antonio Conesa | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2002 | Hospital Central | Alfonso Trece | Javier Pizarro | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2002–05 | Un Paso Adelante | Rober Arenales | Jesús del Cerro, Juanma R. Pachón, ... | TV series (84 episodes) TP de Oro - Best Young Talent Actor |
| 2005 | Desde que amanece apetece | Máquina | Antonio del Real | |
| 2005–06 | Mis adorables vecinos | Juan Castillo | Gustavo Cotta, Sandra Gallego, ... | TV series (19 episodes) |
| 2006 | The Borgia | Ramón | Antonio Hernández | |
| 2006 | Probabilidades | | Ricardo Bajo Gaviño | Short |
| 2007 | Ekipo Ja | Himself | Juan Muñoz | |
| 2007 | Aída | Julián | Jacobo Martos | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2007–08 | El síndrome de Ulises | Ulises Gaytán de Arzuaga | Inma Torrente, Álvaro Fernández Armero, ... | TV series (26 episodes) |
| 2008 | Intrusos en Manasés | Ruben | Juan Carlos Claver | |
| 2008 | Trío de ases | | Joseba Vázquez | |
| 2008 | Cazadores de hombres | Hugo Vidal | Álvaro Fernández Armero | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2009–2018 | Amar en tiempos revueltos | Alonso Núñez de Losada / Julián Maldonado | Eduardo Casanova, Joan Noguera, ... | TV series (23 episodes) |
| 2010 | Lope | Tomás de Perrenot | Andrucha Waddington | |
| 2010 | No controles | Ernesto | Borja Cobeaga | |
| 2010 | Tensión sexual no resuelta | Nardo | Miguel Ángel Lamata | |
| 2010 | Adiós papá, adiós mamá | Martín | Luis Soravilla | Short |
| 2010 | Ben Hur | Antegua | Steve Shill | TV mini-series |
| 2010 | La piel azul | Germán | Gonzalo López-Gallego | TV mini-series |
| 2010 | Gavilanes | Ángel | E.C. Lletget | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2011 | Vida loca | Toti Blanco | Manuel Sanabria, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, ... | TV series (20 episodes) |
| 2012 | Capadocia | Héctor Bolaños | Pedro Pablo Ibarra, Javier 'Fox' Patrón, ... | TV series (13 episodes) |
| 2012 | Infames | Joaquín Navarro / José María "Chema" Barajas | Moisés Ortiz Urquidi | TV series (39 episodes) |
| 2013 | Viral | Frank | Lucas Figueroa | |
| 2013 | Al final todos mueren | Pablo | David Galán Galindo, Roberto Pérez Toledo, ... | |
| 2013 | Hay dos clases de personas | He | Eva Moreno & Juan Carlos Vellido | Short |
| 2014 | ABCs of Death 2 | Man | Alejandro Brugués | |
| 2014–15 | Sin identidad | Bruno Vergel | Kiko Ruiz, Joan Noguera, ... | TV series (23 episodes) |
| 2015 | Hablar | El Adicto al Porno | Joaquín Oristrell | |
| 2016 | Amar en tiempos revueltos | Alonso Núñez de Losada | Eduardo Casanova | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2017 | Proyecto tiempo | Hugo | Isabel Coixet | |
| 2017 | El ministerio del tiempo | Gonzalo Guerrero | Koldo Serra | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2017 | Bones of Contention | Narrator | Andrea Weiss | Documentary |
| 2018 | Presunto culpable | Jon Aristegui | Alejandro Bazzano, Menna Fité, ... | TV series (13 episodes) |
| 2019 | El crack cero | Moro | José Luis Garci | Post-Production |
| 2020 | What About Love | Christian Santiago | Klaus Menzel | Post-Production |
| 2022 | Daddy Daughter Trip | Santiago Arachavaleta | Rob Schneider | |

## Stage credits

| Title | Year | Role | Production |
| La Cenerentola | 1996 | Servant | Teatro de la Zarzuela |
| Bastien und Bastienne | 2003 | Bastien | Teatro Alcázar |
| Quickly | 2003 | Miguel | Teatro Real de Madrid |
| Il Postino | 2005 | Pablo Neruda | (2005–06) Teatro Real de Madrid and Spanish tour |
| Order of the Empty Tomb | 2009 | Unknown | Colegiata Santa María la Mayor de Antequera |

## Discography
### Studio albums with UPA Dance

| Year | Album | Charts | Charts | Certification | Sales |
| Year | Album | ESP | FRA | Certification | Sales |
| 2002 | UPA Dance | 1 | 1 | 7×Platinum | World: 900,000+ ESP: 700,000+ FRA: 200,000+ |
| 2003 | UPA Dance Edición Especial | 5 | — | ESP: Platinum | ESP: 100,000+ |
| 2004 | UPA Live | 1 | — | ESP: Platinum | ESP: 100,000+ |
| 2005 | Contigo | 4 | — | ESP: Gold | ESP: 50,000+ |

### Solo studio albums

| Year | Album | Charts | Charts | Charts | Certification | Sales |
| Year | Album | FRA | ITA | SUI | Certification | Sales |
| 2006 | M.A.M. Released: 4 September 2006 Label: M6 Interactions/Sony BMG Formats: CD, digital download | 13 | 14 | 67 | FRA: Silver ITA: Gold | World: 250.000+ |

### Solo singles

| Year | Single | Charts | Charts | Charts | Charts | Charts | Charts | Album |
| Year | Single | ESP | FRA | ITA | BEL | SUI | BRA | Album |
| 2006 | "Dirás que estoy loco" | 1 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 17 | — | M.A.M. |
| 2006 | "Esa morena" | — | 29 | — | — | — | — | M.A.M. |
| 2006 | "Vivo para tí" | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | M.A.M. |

## Master Chef Celebrity

In 2016 Muñoz won the first Master Chef Celebrity of Spain. He chose charity Fundación Pequeño Deseo as the recipient of his €75,000 prize.