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Mexican actor and filmmaker (born )

Gael García Bernal^[a] (Spanish:[ɡaˈelɣaɾˈsi.aβeɾˈnal]; born 30 November ) is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films Amores perros (), Y tu mamá también (), Bad Education (), The Motorcycle Diaries (), Babel (), Coco (), Old (), and Cassandro (), for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in the television series Mozart in the Jungle (–), and for starring in the Disney+ special Werewolf by Night ().

García Bernal was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of a young Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries in , and in won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for Mozart in the Jungle. He and fellow actor Diego Luna founded the production company Canana Films in Mexico City.

In , Time magazine named him in the annual Time most influential people list.^[2] In , The New York Times ranked him No. 25 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.^[3]

Early life

García Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, the son of Patricia Bernal, an actress and former model, and José Ángel García, an actor and director.^[4] His stepfather is Sergio Yazbek, whom his mother married when García Bernal was young.^[5] He started acting at just one year old and spent most of his teen years starring in telenovelas.

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García Bernal and frequent collaborator Diego Luna were friends from childhood in Mexico City.^[6]

When he was fourteen, García Bernal taught indigenous people in Mexico to read, often working with the Huichol people.^[7] At the age of fifteen, he took part in peaceful demonstrations in support of the Zapatista uprising of ^[8][9]

He began studying philosophy at UNAM, Mexico's national university but, during a prolonged student strike, he decided to take a sabbatical to travel around Europe.^[9] He then moved to London, and became the first Mexican accepted to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama.^[10][11] Bernal also attended the European Graduate School toward a master's in media and communication.^[12]

Career

After García Bernal's success in soap operas, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu offered García Bernal a part in his feature directorial debut, Amores perros ().

The film won rave reviews, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^{[citation needed]}

His next role was Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también (), which was a crossover success into American markets and gained him notice on the international stage, becoming the second-highest grossing Spanish language film in the United States.^[13][14] The next year, García Bernal went on to portray Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in the TV miniseries Fidel and the morally troubled Father Amaro in the Mexican box-office record-breaker El crimen del Padre Amaro ().

García Bernal again portrayed Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries (), an adaptation of a journal the year-old Guevara wrote about his travels across South America. The film broke the box office record set 3 years prior by Y tu mamá también garnered Bernal a BAFTA nomination in for Best Performance by an Actor.^[15]

He also did some theatre work, during this time, including a production of Bodas de Sangre, by Federico García Lorca, in the Almeida Theatre in London.^{[citation needed]}

García Bernal has worked for acclaimed directors including González Iñárritu, Pedro Almodóvar, Walter Salles, Alfonso Cuarón, Michel Gondry, and Iciar Bollaín, among others.

He has taken on roles in English-language films, including the Gondry-directed The Science of Sleep and The King, for which he earned rave reviews.^[16]

García Bernal directed his first feature film, Déficit which was released in ^[17] He was cast in the film Blindness, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize, about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness.

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As in the novel, the characters have only descriptions, no names or histories; while director Fernando Meirelles said some actors were intimidated by the concept of playing such characters, "'With Gael,' he said, 'I never think about the past. I just think what my character wants.'"^[18] García Bernal again paired with Diego Luna in Rudo y Cursi directed by Carlos Cuarón.^{[citation needed]}

García Bernal and Diego Luna own Canana Films.

The company recently joined with Golden Phoenix Productions to produce a number of television documentaries about the unsolved murders of more than women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.^{[citation needed]}

In May , García Bernal did a cameo appearance as himself playing Cristiano Ronaldo in Ronaldo: The Movie for the Nike advertisement, Write the Future.^{[citation needed]}

In , he co-directed with Marc Siver four short films in collaboration with Amnesty International.

The tetralogy, called "Los Invisibles", is about migrants from Central America in Mexico, their journey and risks, their hopes, and what they can contribute to Mexico, the US and the world. He directed the movies, did the interviews and also narrates the four short movies.^[19] He starred in Even the Rain (), Spain's official entry for the Academy Awards.^{[citation needed]}

García Bernal narrated Human Planet for Hispanic audiences, which premiered on Discovery en Español on 25 April and aired on Discovery Channel in Latin America on 12 May.^[20] For the third time García Bernal appeared with Diego Luna in the American Spanish-language comedy film Casa de mi padre, opposite Will Ferrell, where he played a feared drug lord.^[21] García Bernal's next projects included a film adaptation of José Agustín's Ciudades Desiertas and the Jon Stewart directorial biopic Rosewater,^[22] in which he portrayed Maziar Bahari to widespread critical acclaim.

He was set to star in the 20th Century Fox reboot Zorro film called Zorro Reborn. The script is by Glen Gers, Lee Shipman, and Brian McGeevy.^[23]

In April , he was announced as a member of the main competition jury at the Cannes Film Festival.^[24]

In June , he began production as the star of the dramatic comedy Zoom, directed by Pedro Morelli.^{[citation needed]}

In , he was cast in the lead role of Rodrigo de Souza in the Amazon Studios comedy-drama television series Mozart in the Jungle.

His performance in the show was met with rave reviews, earning him a Golden Globe Award in ^{[citation needed]}

In , he starred in two movies that were submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Desierto (Mexico) and Neruda (Chile).^{[citation needed]}

In , he was announced as a member of the U.S.

Dramatic Jury at the Sundance Film Festival. That same year, he provided the voice of Héctor, an undead trickster and one of the main protagonists of the Pixar animated film Coco.^{[citation needed]}

García Bernal founded The Ambulante Documentary Film Festival,^[25] which works to bring documentary films to places where they are rarely shown, and helped to create the Amnesty International Short Documentary Series Los Invisibles.^[26] For this work, he was awarded the Washington Office on Latin America's Human Rights Award in ^[27]

In October , García Bernal and Diego Luna announced they were joining the Creative Advisory Board for TV and Film development company EXILE Content along with Adam Grant.^[28]

In , García Bernal starred in the M.

Night Shyamalan thriller Old.^[29] In November , Bernal was cast in the Disney+ special Werewolf by Night by Marvel Studios, based on the comics character of the same name.^[30]

In , he starred alongside close friend and frequent collaborator Diego Luna in the Hulu Original miniseries, La Máquina as the eponymous character.

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Uno de los actores mexicanos con mayor proyección internacional. Películas: Amores perros, Diarios de motocicleta, Y tu mamá también Televisión: Mozart in the Jungle Padres: Patricia Bernal, José Ángel García. Parejas: Dolores Fonzi (), Fernanda Aragonés () Hijos: Libertad García Fonzi, Lázaro García Fonzi y otro más.

Personal life

García Bernal and Argentine actress Dolores Fonzi met on the set of Private Lives in ^[31] On 8 January their son was born in Madrid, Spain.^[32][33] Their daughter was born on 4 April in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[34] He divides his time between Buenos Aires and Mexico City.^[35]

He has been in a relationship with Mexican journalist Fernanda Aragonés since They had a child on 30 September ^[36]

He has described himself as "culturally Catholic but spiritually agnostic".^[37]

Filmography

Film

†	Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Television

Awards

Ariel Award

BAFTA Awards

Cannes Film Festival

Golden Globe Awards

Goya Awards

Other honors

Discography

Collaborations

Soundtracks

Notes

See also

References

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