The 22-year-old from Madrid plays the 15-year-old teenager who obsesses Alexandra Jiménez in the new Telecinco series
Signed by a talent scout on Instagram, and after a meteoric career as a model, he launched into acting in the series ‘Skam’ and ‘Elite’
Fernando Lindez is 22 years old., 7 more than Hugo, the teenager for whom a woman 37 years older goes crazy (Inés, played by Alexandra Jiménez) with tragic consequences in the new serie Scandal: portrait of an obsession premiered yesterday on Telecinco.
The Madrid actor and model this 2023 is confirmed as one of the young promises of cinema and television, by starring in the Mediaset’s great fiction betafter having made himself known in other youth series, such as Shame (Movistar) or the seventh season of Elite (Netflix), yet to be released.
The only thing that Fernando Lindez has in common with the character of Hugo is a “scandal” physique (1.85 tall and a modern face with personality) that has already been seen in the hot scenes that he shares with Alexandra Jiménez:
Discovered as a model by chance
She debuted as a model at the age of 17. and “by chance”after being discovered on Instagram by a talent scout from the agency One Models Spain who has represented him ever since, along with YugenVision.
In a very short time it has become one of the 50 most sought after male models in the world (according to the web models.com). She has already paraded in catwalks in Paris, Milan or London and starred in campaigns for brands such as Versace, Louis Vuitton, Berluti, JW Anderson, Prada o Loewe (Paula’s Ibiza Eau de Toilette):
In his personal life, Fernando Lindez is a young very mature for his age as he has demonstrated in the promotional interviews in which he explains the complexity of his character in the Telecinco series:
I’m very shy, it’s always been hard for me to flirt with girls
In September 2020, during an interview with the magazine Esquire, who gave him the “Fashion Man of the Year” awardthe actor said that he had not yet had a romantic relationship. “I have never been the fuckboy. For me, flirting with girls has always been difficult for me. I’m very shy”, recognized then, when lived with his parents and spoke of how united he is to his three sisters, one older and two younger:
His girlfriend, the model Eugenia Arranz
At present it does seem to have a relationship with the model Eugenia Arranzwith which it shares a representation agency, as shown in Instagram, where his profile already has more than 360,000 followers:
His personal life: athlete, lover of tattoos and ‘amateur’ photographer
Fernando Lindez considers “very shy”, “sensitive”, “honest” and “generous”. Es lover of tattoos (he has two, an arrow and a broken heart), of the dogs (of those who enjoy in the mountains of Madrid with their friends), sports (played golf since he was 7 years old and rowing with a kayak) and photography.
“I am a great admirer of the beauty that you find in nature. I enjoy being outdoors, and discovering new landscapes is something that always surprises me,” he said in an interview for I-D Vice.
He tried his hand at music with a rap group
Despite his fear of the cameras, Fernando Líndez also threw himself into “try your luck in music, something fun, but nothing serious. I highly respect the professionals who are dedicated to it”, account about the ephemeral rap group of which he was a part, “The group of the broken heart”.
Protagonist of a video clip with the singer Aitana
Three years ago, starred with the singer Aitana in the video clip of the song nothing goes wrong:
