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Gael García Bernal (born November 30, 1978) is a Mexican actor, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Gael García Bernal has starred in some of Mexico's most celebrated films, beginning with Amores perros (2000), then 2001's Y tu mamá también, and El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002). It was his debut as the working-class street thug in Oscar-nominated Amores perros that first grabbed Hollywood's attention.
Like a Mexican Marlon Brando, García Bernal transmits vulnerability beneath a bad-boy sexuality. He started acting as a one-year-old and spent most his teen years starring in soap operas. But just as he became a soap heartthrob, at age 19, he left Mexico's television world to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK.
His mother, Patricia Bernal, is an actress and former model. His father, José Ángel García, is an actor and director. Gael García Bernal speaks Spanish, Italian, French, and English. García Bernal is also a close friend of actor Diego Luna.
He has also done some theatre work, including a 2005 production of Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding), by Federico Garcia Lorca in the Almeida theatre, London.
Filmography
- The Science of Sleep (2005)
- The King (2005)...Elvis
- La mala educación (2004)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
- Dreaming of Julia (2003)
- Dot the I (2003)
- I'm With Lucy (2002)
- El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002)
- Fidel (series) (2002)
- The Last Post (2001)
- Sin noticias de dios (2001)
- Vidas Privadas (2001)
- El ojo en la nuca (2001)
- Y tu mamá también (2001)
- Cerebro (2000)
- Amores perros (2000)
- De tripas, corazón (1996)
- El abuelo y yo (series) (1992)
- Teresa (series) (1989)
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