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Álvaro Rico

Spanish actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ57360950 ↗
Source-derived summary

Álvaro Rico Ladera (born 13 August 1996) is a Spanish actor. He is known for playing the character of Polo in the teen drama series Elite.

Career

In 2011, he began his career as an actor in a theater adaptation of La Celestina and his television debut was in 2017 in an episode of Medical Center. Also in 2017, he played Nicolás in Velvet Colección.

In December 2017, he was announced as a main cast member in the teen drama series Elite. In the series, he played Polo, a bisexual teenager who is in a love trio with two other classmates.

In 2021, he gave an interview for Vanity Teen magazine talking about the impact of the series on society and his upcoming performances.

He portrayed Enrique Ruano in the RTVE series Las abogadas.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Álvaro Rico” as spanish actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2011, 2017, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-08-13. The account is most persuasive where Álvaro, Rico and Spanish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as spanish actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q57360950. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2011, 2017 and 2021.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Álvaro Rico” 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.