Biography

Amaya was born February 28, 1977 in Hermosillo, Sonora but, after five years, he and his family moved to Tecate, Baja California. Since he was a small boy, Amaya excelled in a wide variety of sports. As a teenager, Amaya took classes in theater and music. After finishing high school, he traveled to San Diego, California to study at a local university. He returned to Mexico and started playing with various music groups, and it was with "Almalafa," that he went to live in Mexico City. Of all the band members, Amaya was the only one who stayed in the city where he devoted his career to modeling.

Then came the Centre for arts education Televisa, where he found the opportunity to make the casting of a new group, Garibaldi. Amaya split with Garibaldi, to do some acting work on his own. It began with the novella "The House on the Beach" with the character of Romualdo, and then continuing with the novel "Conceived Without Sin" in the role of Castulo.

Career

2000-09: Early work

In January 2002, he began his third and most exciting project, He starred in the soap opera "Salome" with the role of one of the main characters, Julian Joseph, the hero and the son of Salome, the main protagonist. It was in this soap opera, that Rafael become Well known as an actor. Next, he starred in "The rails of Love" with the dual role of Paco who was the catalyst for a good and important fabric of the soap opera, and after a while made the character of Paul (a brother of Paco). Still on the list of soap operas, we have "to love again" that was launched in the U.S. and originally known as "bouquet of Illusions," Amaya did the role of Fernando.

His most recent involvement is currently in "Two Sides of Ana" (Las Dos Caras de Ana) where Amaya takes the leading role of the same character that bears his name, Rafael. It is currently filming in Miami, Florida in the United States. In February 2002, Amaya won the nomination for "Men's revelation" in the delivery of "the Herald" and in June the same year was re-nominated at the Awards for TVyNovelas in the same category.

Amaya has also ventured into the big screen. His first experience was in the film "Naked" (Desnudos), a romantic comedy based on the play known as "Four X", he performs a frontal nudity. The second film he is set to do is "So the precipice," where he acts as a gay man, performing a masturbation scene.

2010-present

Amaya in the 2010 dabbled in short films, and has participated in several films such as Rock Marí, Sin memoria, Adiós mundo cruel, Atrocious and La ruleta de los sueños. Later it was the co-prtoagonist of the soap opera La piel azul where played Fernando, and he was the antagonist of the telenovela Alguien te mira where played Julián García and shared credit with Christian Meier and Danna García.

In 2011, it had a participation in the telenovela La Reina del Sur, and shared credit with Kate del Castillo, while the soap opera was in production, the actor traveled to Spain, to participate in two Spanish series, such as Hospital Central and Doctor Mateo, where he took part in several episodes as main cast of both series.

In 2013, he participated in the television movie Meddling Mom, which was recorded in 2012. In January 2013, the actor began production the television series El Señor de los Cielos, which he had 2 seasons and interpreted to Aurelio Casillas "El Señor de los Cielos". The series has won an International Emmys in 2014. Amaya was also a winner as best actor in the Premios Tu Mundo 2014.

On September 23, 2014 he appeared in the television series Señora Acero, where played Aurelio Casillas, Amaya only participated in 2 episodes with Blanca Soto and Damián Alcázar.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Desnudos	Pablo	Film debut
2006	Así del precipicio	Gerardo
2008	Amor letra por letra	Julián
2008	Fotonovela	Ángel
2008	24 cuadros de terror	Lady Killer
2009	El descubrimiento	Barman	Short film
2009	Se jodió la Navidad	Hombre en la fiesta	Short film
2009	The Fighter	Leone
2009	Pepe & Santo vs. America	Julio
2009	Me importas tú, y tú
2009	Días extraños		Short film
2010	Rock Marí	Pablo
2010	Sin memoria	Raúl
2010	Adiós mundo cruel	Luis Armando
2010	Atrocious	Psiquiatra	Voice only
2014	Kiss of Vengeance	Aldo	Short film
2014	Cantinflas	Frank Sinatra
2015	Oro y polvo	Daniel	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	La casa en la playa	Romualdo Reyes	Television debut
2001	Mujer, casos de la vida real		"Linea de fuego" (Season 18, Episode 90)
2001	Sin pecado concebido	Cástulo Campos Ortiz	Recurring role
2001	Salomé	José Julián	Recurring role
2002	Las vías del amor	Paco / Pablo Rivera	Recurring role
2004	Amar otra vez	Fernando Castañeda Eslava	Co-lead role
2006	Las dos caras de Ana	Rafael Bustamante / Gustavo Galván	Lead role
2007-2009	Ugly Betty	Lorenzo	Uncredited "Betty's Wait Problem" (Season 2, Episode 3) "A League of Their Own" (Season 2, Episode 5) "Giving Up the Ghost" (Season 2, Episode 9) "In the Stars" (Season 3, Episode 22)
2008	Los simuladores	Rubalcaba	"El pacto copernico" (Season 1, Episode 8)
2008	Mujeres asesinas	Óscar	"Claudia, cuchillera" (Season 1, Episode 6)
2008	Sexo y otros secretos	Martín	12 episodes
2009	La ruleta de los sueños	Dan	Television film
2010	La piel azul	Fernando
2010-2011	Alguien te mira	Julián García Correa	Co-lead role
2011	Hospital Central	Dr. Enrique Guerrero	9 episodes
2011	La Reina del Sur	Raimundo Dávila Parra "El Güero"	22 episodes
2011	Doctor Mateo	Roberto	12 episodes
2013	Meddling Mom	Pablo	Television film
2013-present	El Señor de los Cielos	Aurelio Casillas	Lead role
2014-present	Señora Acero	Aurelio Casillas	3 episodes
2016	Queen of the South	Aurelio Casillas

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Nominated works	Category	Result
2002	TVyNovelas Awards	Salomé	Best Male Revelation	Nominated
2007		Las Dos Caras de Ana	Best Lead Actor	Nominated
2011	Premios People en Español	La Reina del Sur	Best Supporting Actor	Nominated
		Alguien te mira	Best Villain	Nominated
2013	Premios Tu Mundo 2013	El Señor de los Cielos	Favorite Lead Actor	Nominated
			The Perfect Couples	Nominated
	Premios People en Español		Best Actor	Nominated
			The Perfect Couples	Nominated
2014	Miami Life Awards		Best Leading Male	Nominated
	People en Español		Best Leading Male	Nominated
			Best on-screen chemistry	Nominated
	Premios Tu Mundo		Favorite Lead Actor	Won
			The Perfect Couple	Nominated
			Qué Papacito	Nominated
2015	Premios Tu Mundo		The Best Actor with Bad Luck	Won
			Favorite Lead Actor: Series	Won
			The Perfect Couple	Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]