Luka Peros is something of a theatrical everyman. A multi-award-winning Croatian actor, he is fluent in five different languages, has lived all over the world, and has experience in everything from screen to stage and is even a talented puppeteer. Internationally, he is perhaps best known for one of his most recent roles: Marseille in Money Heist AKA La Casa de Papel, the Spanish crime drama series that became a worldwide hit when Netflix began streaming it globally in 2017. Peros joined the cast in 2019 in a recurring role but was soon promoted to the main cast and is still there. Among his other triumphs is the 2020 short film Thirty Minutes, which swept the boards at film festivals around the world, netting Peros no fewer than six awards.

Peros was born in Zagreb in 1976 and also lived in London, Los Angeles, Vienna, Abu Dhabi, and Boston (graduating from the latter’s Emerson College with a BFA in Performing Arts in 2000) before settling down in Barcelona. His first screen appearances came on Croatian television during the late 1990s, and he returned to his home country in the early 2000s to appear in its first-ever soap opera, Villa Maria.

Despite living in various corners of the globe, Peros has continued to play and voice recurring roles in major Croatian television series, including Dobri Namjere (Good Intentions), Zabranjena Ijubav (Forbidden Love), and Tajni Dnevnik Patke Matilde (Matilda’s Secret Duck Diary). Winning part on a hugely successful series like Money Heist, as well as winning so many awards for an English-language short film, have finally given his talents the worldwide recognition that they deserve.