Joan Frank Charansonnet
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
From 2000 to 2005 he lived in Russia, where he played (in Russian) a leading character in a prime-time television series, Dorogaya Masha Berezina [Dear Masha Berezina], produced by Sony Pictures.
He is well-known to the public thanks to his leading roles in several Catalan Public Television (TV3) series, for example as Richard in El cor de la ciutat, and Mauri (as young) in La Riera, and by his appearances in numerous Catalan and Spanish TV series, including Acusados, Amar en tiempos revueltos, Crims, Cuéntame cómo pasó, Estació d'enllaç, Hospital Central, Inocentes, Policías, Rhesus o Toledo. He has also appeared in 16 films under renowned directors such as Carlos Saura, Daniel Calparsoro, Carles Torrens
and Joan Carles Medina.
As theater director, he has staged ten plays in Russia, France, Catalonia and Madrid, including Una comèdia DALÍrant, L'arquitecte i l'emperador d'Assíria,Glinka and Carta d'amor.
As film director, he made his debut with Ushima-Next, which premiered at the Sitges International Film Fstival in 2011. Ànima (awarded Best Film at the Nunes International Festival in Barcelona in 2014) was his second feature film.
And others films: Anunnaki "The Fallen in the sky" , Doctrina(El pecat original i la reinserció) and and Pàtria: La llegenda d'Otger de Cataló i els 9 barons de la fama (Fatherland: The legend of Otger de Cataló and the nine barons of fame).
He has also published two books: JFSebastian: El DALÍrante, and Arrabal vs. Charansonnet. Del pànic al postpànic,both with Libros del Innombrable publishing company.
He is currently working in the post-production of and other film: Màrtir and a Tv movie Terra de Telers.