Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera (1949–2022), better known as Chete Lera, was a Spanish actor. With a long on-screen career in addition to a stage career, he featured in films such as The Red Squirrel, Secrets of the Heart, Familia, Barrio, Open Your Eyes, Flores de otro mundo, and Full Moon.^[1]

Ramón Mariano Fernández Lera was born in 1949 in A Estrada, Province of Pontevedra. He was raised for most of his childhood in Corcubión, and then moved to Madrid.^[2] Prior to acting he was an aeronautic engineer, pilot, bank teller and studied psychology.^[3] He began a career as a stage actor in the late 1970s,^[4] including his performance in the Eduardo Fuentes-directed stage play Cabaret Castizo (premiered in Madrid on 5 January 1993), portraying a sheriff making a parody out of authoritarian Madrid city councillor Ángel Matanzo; Matanzo's attempts to bring down the play eventually prompted his own sacking from the municipal government board.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]} One of his most well known film credits was that of the psychiatrist in Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos.^[11]

He won the Silver Biznaga for Best Actor in the 2002 Málaga Film Festival together with the rest of the cast of Smoking Room.^[11]

His television work includes performances in Los ladrones van a la oficina, Médico de familia or Cuéntame cómo pasó.^[1] His last television work was his performance as Ramón in Mira lo que has hecho.^[11][12]

He died on 19 May 2022, age 72, in the wake of a car accident in Rincón de la Victoria.^[11][1] He was the single occupant of a vehicle that went off the road and fell down a 50-metre steep slope, landing on a plantation.^[13]

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