Alvaro Antonio Gracia Perez, known professionally as Alvaro Morte is a Spanish actor.

He gained worldwide recognition by playing the role of “the professor” in the popular television series ‘Money Heist, aka La Casa de Papal.’

Morte isn’t only a very hardworking and tenacious actor but a survivor of a cancerous tumor. He was diagnosed with it at the age of 33, and it was a dark phase of his life; but, he eventually overcame it.

Morte initially enrolled in communications engineering but later switched to dramatic arts and graduated from ‘Escuela Superior De Arte Dramatica De Cordoba’ in 1999.

He completed his post-graduate studies at the University of Tampere.