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Hugo Welzel

Spanish actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ135633396
Source-derived summary

Hugo Welzel (born 2004) is a Spanish actor.

Life and career

Welzel was born in Seville in 2004. He began to train his acting chops at the 'Viento Sur' theatre school and the 'Sebastián Haro' acting lab. He landed a role as one of the friends of the protagonist the miniseries The Invisible Girl (2023). Also in 2023, he starred as a 17-year-old member of a Neo-Nazi group in Rafael Cobos' mother-son thriller miniseries The Left-Handed Son, and appeared in the Prime Video series Urban: La vida es nuestra.

He made his big screen debut in 2025 with a leading role opposite Christian Checa as a young bully from a dysfunctional family in the thriller Enemies (2025). His performance in the film earned him a nomination for Best New Actor at the 5th Carmen Awards, for Best Actor at the 38th ASECAN Awards, anda for Best New Actor at the 40th Goya Awards. Also in 2025, he featured in the second season of the mystery series The Snow Girl and in the teen drama series Mar afuera. He also joined the cast of the film La bola negra, pending for a 2026 release.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hugo Welzel” is spanish actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hugo, Welzel and Spanish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2023, 2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hugo, Welzel and Spanish is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135633396. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2023, 2025 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from Hugo Welzel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.