Gael García Bernal
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.5945 |
| Birthday | 1978-11-30 |
| Place of Birth | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Gael Garcia Bernal, Gael García, |
2000
Amores Perros
7.6/2892
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s...
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Amores Perros
2004
Bad Education
7.354/1062
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth...
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Bad Education
2006
The Science of Sleep
7/828
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
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The Science of Sleep
2002
The Crime of Padre Amaro
6.658/307
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an...
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
2006
Babel
7.2/4047
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
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Babel
2001
Y Tu Mamá También
7.414/1727
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.
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Y Tu Mamá También
2004
The Motorcycle Diaries
7.417/1420
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado h...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
2023
The Mother
6.621/1401
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
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The Mother
2025
Holland
5.382/501
Teacher Nancy's life with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles into a twisted tale when she and a colleague become suspicious of a secret.
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Holland
2006
The King
6/68
When Elvis Valderez is honourably discharge from the Navy, he heads to the small town of Corpus Christi in Texas. There he introduces himself to Pasto...
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The King
2008
Rudo & Cursi
7/224
Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-de...
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Rudo & Cursi
2002
I'm with Lucy
5.3/36
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had b...
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I'm with Lucy
2024
Another End
6.7/69
In a future where consciousness can be transferred, Sal is urged by his sister to try a breakthrough technology that implants the memories and persona...
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Another End
2008
Blindness
6.532/1368
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of...
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Blindness
2009
The Limits of Control
6/313
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...
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The Limits of Control
2022
Werewolf by Night
7/1497
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the dea...
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Werewolf by Night
2009
Mammoth
6.136/121
When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.
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Mammoth
2002
Fidel
4.7/14
Centered on the six years before the fall of Batista's dictatorship and the subsequent 40 years of the Cuban Revolution.
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Fidel
2011
A Little Bit of Heaven
6.348/595
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
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A Little Bit of Heaven
2001
Don't Tempt Me
5.5/88
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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Don't Tempt Me
2007
The Past
6.2/32
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and co...
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The Past
2003
Dot the I
6/126
A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
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Dot the I
2012
Casa de Mi Padre
5.356/326
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
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Casa de Mi Padre
2012
The Loneliest Planet
5.711/76
Backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains, walking for hours, an engaged couple and their tour guide trade anecdotes and play games to pass the time, unti...
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The Loneliest Planet
2011
Even the Rain
6.998/291
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privati...
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Even the Rain
2010
José & Pilar
7.3/27
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and...
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José & Pilar
2007
Déficit
5.1/13
Cristóbal is the son of a corrupt politician with great power. Without his parents at home, he decides to have a party with his wealthy friends. In co...
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Déficit
2004
Traveling with Che Guevara
5.8/4
In 1952, Ernesto Guevara, then a medical student aged 23, and his friend Alberto Granado, a biologist of 29, began a long journey through the South Am...
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Traveling with Che Guevara
2012
No
7.2/468
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will...
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No
2001
Private Lives
4/15
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related...
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Private Lives
2023
This One Summer
5.4/36
Every summer, 10-year-old Dune goes with her parents to the south-west coast of France, where she meets her best friend Mathilde. Together, they explo...
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This One Summer
2013
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
6.5/10
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to s...
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Who Is Dayani Cristal?
2010
Hidalgo, Frenesí de Libertad
0/0
Heroes of Flesh and Bones
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Hidalgo, Frenesí de Libertad
2001
The Last Post
8/3
October 1982: War is waged between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. A British soldier stumbles upon an Argentinean soldier. They shar...
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The Last Post
2014
Rosewater
6.4/193
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country...
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Rosewater
2007
Saint Death
6.1/5
In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by th...
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Saint Death
1996
De Tripas, Corazón
4.5/6
The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they h...
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De Tripas, Corazón
2015
Desierto
6.2/395
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight fo...
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Desierto
2016
You're Killing Me Susana
6.6/116
An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.
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You're Killing Me Susana
2014
The Ardor
4.811/37
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercen...
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The Ardor
Z
0/0
The western frontier reemerges. And as in the past, a hero answers the people's cry for justice.
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Z
2012
Vamps
5.3/299
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has...
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Vamps
2003
Dreaming of Julia
5.5/6
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
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Dreaming of Julia
2022
Director by Night
6.4/22
Acclaimed composer Michael Giacchino made his directorial debut with Marvel Studios' Special Presentation "Werewolf by Night." This behind-the-scenes...
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Director by Night
2008
Chevolution
5.8/11
Examines the history and legacy of the photo Guerrillero Heroico taken by famous Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. This image has thrived for...
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Chevolution
2016
Zoom
5.851/111
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about...
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Zoom
2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep
5.2/35
In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Ju...
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Eva Doesn't Sleep
2016
Salt and Fire
4.9/80
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they...
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Salt and Fire
2004
Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education
0/0
A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004).
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Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education
2016
Neruda
6.3/277
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of...
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Neruda
2020
Perros, amores, accidentes
0/0
A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.
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Perros, amores, accidentes
2011
Breaking the Taboo
7.1/32
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impa...
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Breaking the Taboo
2017
Coco
8.197/20852
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desp...
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Coco
2001
The Eye on the Nape
0/0
This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.
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The Eye on the Nape
2017
If You Saw His Heart
4.2/23
Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.
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If You Saw His Heart
2018
Museo
6.5/151
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away w...
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Museo
2018
The Kindergarten Teacher
6.6/382
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she beco...
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The Kindergarten Teacher
2001
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
5.7/4
On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."
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Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
2018
The Accused
6.566/182
Dolores lived the life of a higher-class student until her best friend was found brutally murdered. Two years later, she’s the only indicted suspect f...
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The Accused
2019
Ema
6.745/251
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to giv...
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Ema
2020
Wasp Network
6.049/405
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a...
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Wasp Network
2010
Los Invisibles
0/0
This short documentary reviews the lives and experiences of mexican and centroamerican migrants as they try to reach the US border.
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Los Invisibles
2019
It Must Be Heaven
6.511/176
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
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It Must Be Heaven
2021
Old
6.323/4841
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing th...
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Old
2023
Cassandro
6.63/127
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, t...
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Cassandro
2010
Letters to Juliet
7/2998
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour...
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Letters to Juliet
Monkey Hill
0/0
An heiress accused of a white-collar crime hides away with her husband at a luxury resort in an Indian holy city. In deep denial of the growing scanda...
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Monkey Hill
2007
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
10/1
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2026
Zero A.D.
0/0
A brutal ruler fears a prophecy and orders the death of a child—one who will change history.
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Zero A.D.
2025
Magellan
6.3/21
At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward rout...
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Magellan
The End of It
0/0
In a near-future world where ageing can be cured and death is now optional, Claire, a former provocative artist approaching her 250th birthday, decide...
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The End of It
Sin equipaje
0/0
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Sin equipaje
Hombre al algua
0/0
Thousands of kilometers apart, two married colleagues meet during a corporate crisis, sparking a passionate connection that makes them question their...
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Hombre al algua
Nothing Between Us
0/0
Living in Mexico City, Guillermo and Mechi, in Buenos Aires, are separated by over 4,000 miles and their marriages, both having structured family live...
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Nothing Between Us
In the Valley of Shadows
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Mountaineer Álvar Toledano falls into an isolated valley inhabited by a community that has been blind for generations. Initially convinced of his supe...
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In the Valley of Shadows
Sueño Perro
0/0
This multisensory installation, rooted at the intersection of cinema and visual art, marks the 25th anniversary of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s legendary d...
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