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Gael García Bernal

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Biography

Gael García Bernal 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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Y Tu Mamá También

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Blindness

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Coco

As Héctor (voice)

Bad Education

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Old

As Guy

Babel

As Santiago

Letters to Juliet

As Victor

Maya and the Three

As The Jaguar Brothers (voice)

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Imperfect Pedagogues: Teachers in the Grey

From the cracked idealism of Half Nelson to the bureaucratic despair of The Teacher, a chain of films where educators are as flawed as the systems they serve.

7 films

Five Essential Summer Films

A curated selection of films that capture summer's heat, languor, and menace, sidestepping the usual suspects for more surprising, evocative choices.

5 films

No Map. No Plan. Just Go

From American Honey to Nomadland, a journey through films where the open road promises freedom, and sometimes delivers it.

8 films

When the World Catches Cold

From Contagion's clinical dread to the surreal end of days, a chain of films about outbreaks, science, and the fraying of society.

7 films

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