Gael García Bernal
Birthday: 1978-11-30
Place of Birth: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Biography: Gael García Bernal (Spanish: [ɡaˈel ɣaɾˈsi.aβeɾˈnal]; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films Amores perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), Bad Education (2004), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Babel (2006), Coco (2017), Old (2021), and Cassandro (2023). He has also played music conductor Rodrigo de Souza in the television drama series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018) and starred in the Disney+ special Werewolf by Night (2022). 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 2005, and in 2016 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 2016, Time magazine named him in the annual Time 100 Most Influential People list. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him No. 25 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gael García Bernal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Amores Perros
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a sup...
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Bad Education
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...
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The Science of Sleep
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can sho...
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge ...
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Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
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Y Tu Mamá También
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...
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The Mother
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, ...
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Holland
Teacher Nancy's life with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles into a twisted tale when she and...
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The King
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, who...
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Rudo & Cursi
Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough m...
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I'm with Lucy
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that m...
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Another End
In a future where consciousness can be transferred, Sal is urged by his sister to try a breakthrough...
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Blindness
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to...
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The Limits of Control
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While ...
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Werewolf by Night
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at ...
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Mammoth
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. B...
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A Little Bit of Heaven
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling...
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Don't Tempt Me
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer....
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The Past
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and star...
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Dot the I
Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carm...
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Casa de Mi Padre
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with M...
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The Loneliest Planet
Backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains, walking for hours, an engaged couple and their tour guide tra...
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Even the Rain
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Boli...
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José & Pilar
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Sar...
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Déficit
Cristóbal is the son of a corrupt politician with great power. Without his parents at home, he decid...
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Traveling with Che Guevara
In 1952, Ernesto Guevara, then a medical student aged 23, and his friend Alberto Granado, a biologis...
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No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to cal...
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Private Lives
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentin...
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This One Summer
Every summer, 10-year-old Dune goes with her parents to the south-west coast of France, where she me...
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Who Is Dayani Cristal?
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search ...
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The Last Post
October 1982: War is waged between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. A British soldi...
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Rosewater
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newswe...
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Saint Death
In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper,...
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De Tripas, Corazón
The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) ...
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Desierto
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journ...
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You're Killing Me Susana
An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him....
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The Ardor
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, w...
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Z
The western frontier reemerges. And as in the past, a hero answers the people's cry for justice....
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Vamps
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in Ne...
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Dreaming of Julia
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever....
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Director by Night
Acclaimed composer Michael Giacchino made his directorial debut with Marvel Studios' Special Present...
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Chevolution
Examines the history and legacy of the photo Guerrillero Heroico taken by famous Cuban photographer ...
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Zoom
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each liv...
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Eva Doesn't Sleep
In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A ren...
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Salt and Fire
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when...
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Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education
A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004)....
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Neruda
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and po...
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Perros, amores, accidentes
A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros....
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Breaking the Taboo
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on dr...
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Coco
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplishe...
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The Eye on the Nape
This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during ...
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If You Saw His Heart
Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crim...
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Museo
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in t...
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The Kindergarten Teacher
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discover...
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Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."...
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The Accused
Dolores lived the life of a higher-class student until her best friend was found brutally murdered. ...
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Ema
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Ga...
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Wasp Network
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind...
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Los Invisibles
This short documentary reviews the lives and experiences of mexican and centroamerican migrants as t...
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It Must Be Heaven
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland o...
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Old
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is...
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Cassandro
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international s...
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Letters to Juliet
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of ...
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Monkey Hill
An heiress accused of a white-collar crime hides away with her husband at a luxury resort in an Indi...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach th...
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Zero A.D.
A brutal ruler fears a prophecy and orders the death of a child—one who will change history....
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Magellan
In the 16th century, young and ambitious Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan rebels against the ...
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The End of It
In a near-future world where ageing can be cured and death is now optional, Claire, a former provoca...
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