Daniel Giménez Cacho
Birthday: Born in 1961-05-15 in Madrid, Spain
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Giménez Cacho (born May 15, 1961 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish-born Ariel award winner Mexican actor who has starred in several Mexican films such as Solo con tu pareja, Cronos, Midaq Alley and Arráncame la Vida, among others as well as in Spanish Films (La Mala Educación) and TV shows. He is known for having worked with some of the most important hispanic filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Fons and Pedro Almodóvar. Giménez Cacho also appeared in La Hora Marcada, a TV show written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo Del Toro and in the Mexican telenovela Teresa. His voice is heard throughout Y tu mamá también as the narrator. In 2009 appear in the Mexican remake of the Argentina TV series Locas de Amor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Giménez Cacho, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
La Hora Marcada
Character: (Varios)
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón....
Santo Contra los Clones
Character: Dr. Clon
Set in Mexico City, the series follows the adventures of the eponymous wrestler in the role of a superhero who must try to stop the plans of Dr. Clone, an evil scientist. He is determined once again to kill him and creates clones based on his old enemies (thanks to their DNA), and use them to dominate the world....
Club de Cuervos
Character: Félix
When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo....
Aquí en la Tierra
Character: Mario Rocha
Follows the life of Carlos, a member of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and whose life takes an "U" turn when his father is found dead....
Un Extraño Enemigo
Character: Fernando Barrientos
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power....
Teresa
Character: Héctor de la Barrera
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Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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Gritos de Muerte y Libertad
Character: Agustín de Iturbide
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Movie Credits
Bad Education
Character: Padre Manolo
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death....
The Art of Losing
Character: Víctor Silanpa
A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, emerald hunters, nudists......
Cabeza de Vaca
Character: Dorantes
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquis...
Kill the Jockey
Character: Sirena
Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive....
The Zone
Character: Daniel
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders....
Tear This Heart Out
Character: Andres Ascencio
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective....
The Black Pimpernel
Character: Ricardo Fuentes
The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973....
Midaq Alley
Character: José Luis
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband....
Sólo con tu pareja
Character: Tomás Tomás
Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get revenge by typing "positive" on his AIDS test, Tomás experiences for the first time the realities of love and death....
Get the Gringo
Character: Javi
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy....
El Infierno
Character: Capitán Ramírez
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive....
No Shame
Character: Mario
A movie script is presented to Isabel. After reading it she realizes it's based on an old love affair she had with movie director Mario Fabra, the author of the script....
Light Years
Character:
ZAMA (2017, Lucrecia Martel) didn’t come alone. It brought with her a shooting journal written by Selva Almada –El mono en el remolino– and this documentary by Manuel Abramovich, who, as a sound intruder, captured the meticulous work of the director from Salta and the warm, human, joyful precision....
No One Writes to the Colonel
Character: Nogales
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son....
Love on a Weekend
Character: Luis
One city. Three days, three social classes, three love songs, human beings who coexist without touching one another, joined by mirages and hopes. Their struggles to survive are individual and secret; there are no winners or losers. The seeming order is maintained and a weekend begins....
Colosio
Character: El Doctor
It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el S...
Blancanieves
Character: Antonio Villalta
A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter....
Come Out and Play
Character: The Man
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality....
Jealousy
Character: Antonio
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and...
God Is on Air
Character: Bigardo
Two Spanish pan-handlers soon find themselves in over their heads when they stumble upon an opportunity to redeem themselves and perhaps the entire planet. The world appears to suffer from rampant poverty, violence and spiritual desperation and the relentless news media force-feeds these images to the Spanish people. A popular reality television show lets the audience decide between life or death for suspected felons, and one of the opportunistic pan-handlers attempts to escape poverty through t...
Down the Rabbit Hole
Character:
Raised in opulence and culture, 10 year old Tochtli's lavish life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities....
Herencia maldita
Character:
Mexican feature film...
Made in Mexico
Character: Self
From Diego Luna and Alejandro Fernandez, to Carla Morrison and Chavela Vargas, Duncan Bridgeman weaves a cinematic tapestry composed of original songs and insights from the most iconic artists and performers of contemporary Mexico. With striking visuals, the movie captures the rich diversity of Mexican geography, art, music, and culture. It is a rare look at the country's real identity, and an unparalleled celebration of what it truly means to be "Hecho en Mexico."...
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Character: Santos (voice)
Santos, a fighter finished pacheco overweight and suffers from his recent divorce with Busty Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild woman fighter. To get out of your depression, Santos begins a campaign to help Sahuayo Zombies (gray and harmless characters with which fully identifies). However, his philanthropic campaign soon becomes a very profitable business that leverages Santos for their benefit. The population becomes a zombie plague and Busty Santos threatens to dispose of them. However, the Peyot...
File of Attempted Murder
Character: Federico Gamboa
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz....
Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer
Character:
After a strict upbringing and the death of his beloved sister, Aro Tolbukhin leaves Hungary for Guatemala. Taken in as a political refugee at a mission, Aro grows close to Sister Carmen and becomes part of the community, but a series of misfortunes drive him to arson and murder. Now on death row, Aro is interviewed about his life and motivations by a film crew trying to understand what made him snap....
Castle Chronicle
Character: Octavio
Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, revealing the social prejudices that manifest themselves in classism and racism, as part of a historical reality in Mexico....
Los Rollos Perdidos
Character:
This documentary begins searching for the whereabouts of the films that Servando Gonzalez did about the events of October 2nd 1968 in Tlatelolco, research that later will deal with the fire of March 24th 1982 at the National Film Archives, which destroyed a lot of important part of the footage from Mexico....
Life Kills
Character: Hugo
A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder re...
The Wig
Character: Lorenzo
Silvestre, a down-on-his-luck film director, receives an invitation to have a meeting with a millionaire named Ricky. Silvestre decides to try his luck and present his project, a Mexican epic lasting more than three hours about the life of Benito Juárez. The date is at Ricky's house, a few hours from the city. Silvestre arrives at the meeting with enthusiasm, but things are not as planned and he is the victim of an elaborate prank....
Familia
Character: Leo
As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions....
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Character: Oswaldo
A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid....
She's Ramona
Character: Licenciado del Valle
Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn’t really get any better. She’s fired for being fat, she wants a liposuction but the doctor informs her she’s not a candidate due to her overweight, and all her universe seems to be collapsing after a series of unfortunate events. But everything will soon ...
On the Air
Character: Alberto
Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana, his current girlfriend....
The Prince of the Pacific
Character: Second
French war ship is arriving to Polynesian shore during at 1918 - and adventures begin......
The Painting Lesson
Character: Aguiar
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappe...
Amber
Character: Bufón
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters....
Deep Crimson
Character: Nicolas Estrella
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder....
Zama
Character: Don Diego de Zama
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia....
Leaf Blower
Character:
Three friends have a special mission: find some keys lost in a pile of dead leaves. It may seem a simple task, but it will turn into an odyssey when it confronts them to their fear to grow up. This afternoon, as trivial as it may sound, could change the course of their lives....
Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education
Character: Self
A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004)....
El Jeremías
Character: Dr. Federico Forni
El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity. Set in Sonora Mexico, the film tells the story of Jeremías an eight year old who finds out he is a gifted child and initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he find...
We Are What We Are
Character: Tito
After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition....
Innocent Voices
Character: Priest
A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him....
Y Tu Mamá También
Character: Narrator (voice)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other....
Goodbye Mom
Character: Norman
A man on a supermarket encounters a woman who tells him he reminds her of her late son....
The Summit
Character: Sebastian Sastre / Mexican President
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons....
The Promise
Character: Reverend Dikran Antreassian
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris....
The Virgin of Lust
Character: Toledano
In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café e...
The Eternal Feminine
Character: Ricardo (Adulto)
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life....
Who the Hell Is Juliette?
Character: Himself
Filmed from 1995 to 1997 in Havana, New York, Los Angeles, Morelia and Mexico City, it tells the story of Yuliet, a Cuban teenager, and Fabiola Quiroz, a Mexican model, who, with humor and frankness, surrounded by quirky supporting characters, show us that the absence of their parents, deprivation and adversity made them stronger....
In The MIddle of Nowhere
Character:
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted....
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
Character: Narrator
On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."...
Born Without
Character:
'Born Without' is a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician Jose Flores. "Born without arms and other limbs, Jose supports his large family by playing the harmonica throughout Mexico. In the face of adversity, he shows great courage and spiritual strength. This is a film with multiple layers. It is about sharing, daring and being grateful for what we have. It is also an exploration of social values, some of them controversial. Many of Jose's choices have been strongly c...
The Raft
Character: Santiago Genovés (voice)
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment exploring the origins of violence and sexual attraction. Nobody expected what ultimately took place on that 3-month journey. Through archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition, this film tells the hidden story of the project....
Nicotina
Character: Beto
A hacker who is spying on a pretty neighbour messes up his assignment to break into Swiss bank accounts for Russian mobsters....
Lost Objects
Character: Juan Isunza
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers....
Chicuarotes
Character: Chillamil
Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform their lives, they quickly devolve into the criminal, adult underworld of Mexico City in a bid to buy their freedom....
I Murder Seriously
Character: Onofre
A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez to bring in the killer. What makes the case truly unusual, though, is the manner of death; it seems the hookers all died as a result of having orgasms so powerful they were literally fatal. Teaming up with cultural anthropologist Onofre (Daniel ...
Devil Between the Legs
Character: Cacho
Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable....
Memoria
Character: Juan Ospina
One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting sound dispels her sleep for days, calling into question her identity and guiding her from recording studios to secluded jungle villages in an attempt to find its source....
Siberia
Character: Doctor
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light....
The Chosen
Character: Narrator (voice)
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico....
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Character: Nicolas Pietro
When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him....
1938: When the Oil was Ours
Character:
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda....
Con el amor no se juega
Character:
Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can se...
Cronos
Character: Tito
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after d...
Sweet Release
Character: Radio (Voz)
The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing....
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Character: Silverio Gama
A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit....
Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía?
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
An account of the life and work of the famous Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía (1926-84) that seeks to unravel his murder and the links between Mexican politics and drug trafficking....
I'm Gonna Explode
Character: Dip. Eugenio Valdez
Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, the rebellious teen clumsily attempts to hang himself on-stage at the big talent show. Maru is the sole member of the audience to applaud, earning both students a day of detention. After bonding during the course of their punishment, Román and Maru grab daddy's gun, steal a Volkswagen, and hit the roa...
You're Killing Me Susana
Character:
An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him....