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He currently lives in London, where in 2014 he founded the Spanish Theatre Company a charity whose aim is to bring Spanish and Latin-American culture to London through the Cervantes Theater. The Cervantes Theatre was built in 2016 at Southwark as the home of the Spanish Theatre Company to promote Spanish language dramatic arts. Also, he is an Associate Director of companies such as Fourth Monkey, where he has directed The Grain Store and The Public, and Marquina Theatre Group (Madrid). As a director in the Spanish Theatre Company, he has done different productions such as The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding and The Judge of the Divorces… and others. In addition, he has done the dramaturgy of the show She Said for the English National Ballet, choreographed by Annabelle López Ochoa, Yabin Wang and Aszure Barton.

In 2009, he produced, co-directed and starred in the play The 39 Steps, in his own version of Patrick Barlow's adaptation of the Hitchcock classic. In 2012 he starred in Hay que Deshacer la Casa, in which Andoni Ferreño played the lead. And he starred in, produced and directed the second run of his The 39 Steps.

From 1998, the success of the play The Woman in Black led him to perform it more than 400 times with Emilio Gutiérrez Caba. He produced the same play, in 2007, again appearing with Caba, and directed by Eduardo Bazo. They repeated their former success and reached a thousand shows over the two productions.

Jorge de Juan was awarded the Francisco Rabal Film award for his starring role in El Mejor de los Tiempos by Vega, (winner of the San Sebastián International Film Festival). Furthermore, he received the Billboard Turia Theatre Award in 1998 for his performance in The Woman in Black'.

On his return to Spain in 1982, Jaime Chávarri, cast him in what would be his debut film, Bicycles Are for the Summer', and at the same time he was called by José Luis Gómez to appear in the very successful Oedipus Rex, directed by Stavros Doufexis.

In 1981 Jorge de Juan moved to London where he studied direction and production at the British Theatre Association. Michael McCallion was his voice teacher; he had classes with Clifford Williams and David Perry. Around the same time, he assisted Ian McKellen in directing Acting Shakespeare, at Teatro Español de Madrid.

In 1979 he made his full debut, when he was still at the school, in Five hours with Mario, directed by Josefina Molina in the Theatre Marquina, Madrid. Then Miguel Narros cast him in Macbeth at the Teatro Español de Madrid.

Jorge de Juan García (born 6 June 1961) is a Spanish film and theatre actor, producer and director, known artistically as Jorge de Juan. In 2016 he founded the Spanish Theatre Company (STC) which is the first charity in the history of the British theatre dedicated to the production of both Spanish and Latin-American plays at the Cervantes Theatre of London. This theater was created as well by Jorge de Juan as the home of the Spanish Theatre Company.

Jorge de Juan was born into a very artistic family in Cartagena, Spain, in 1961. At the age of 17 he decided to be an actor and entered the Royal School of Dramatic Art of Madrid in 1978, graduating three years later.