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Daniel Giménez Cacho

Acting

Born May 15, 1961 · Madrid, Spain

Also known as Daniel Jiménez Cacho

Biography

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.

Awards & recognition

  • Ariel AwardBest Actor · 2002
  • Ariel AwardBest Actor · 1996
  • Goya AwardBest Actor · 2013 · nominated

Filmography45 titles

Club of Crows

2015as Félix

Depeche Mode: M

2025as Narrator

Innocent Voices

2004as Priest

An Unknown Enemy

as Fernando Barrientos

Hell

2010as Capitán Ramírez

Tear This Heart Out

2008as Andres Ascencio

Chicuarotes

2019as Chillamil

Mexico 86

2026as Emilio Azcárraga

Bad Education

2004as Padre Manolo

Y tu mamá también

2001as Narrator (voice)

Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía?

2021as Self - Narrator (voice)

Snow White

2012as Antonio Villalta

Familia

2023as Leo

Midaq Alley

1995as José Luis

Colosio

2012as El Doctor

The Promise

2016as Reverend Dikran Antreassian

Deep Crimson

1996as Nicolas Estrella

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022as Silverio Gama

El Jeremías

2015as Dr. Federico Forni

Kill the Jockey

2024as Sirena

Down the Rabbit Hole

2024as Gober

Cronos

1992as Tito

Devil Between the Legs

2019as Cacho

Get the Gringo

2012as Javi

El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza

2012as Santos (voice)

Nicotina

2003as Beto

Love in the Time of Hysteria

1991as Tomás Tomás

Light Years

2017

Zama

2017as Don Diego de Zama

The Art of Losing

2004as Víctor Silanpa

We Are What We Are

2010as Tito

The Raft

2018as Santiago Genovés (voice)

The Summit

2017as Sebastian Sastre / Mexican President

The Chosen

2016as Narrator (voice)

A Monster with a Thousand Heads

2015as Nicolas Pietro

File of Attempted Murder

2010as Federico Gamboa

No One Writes to the Colonel

1999as Nogales

I Murder Seriously

2002as Onofre

The Black Pimpernel

2007as Ricardo Fuentes

She's Ramona

2015as Licenciado del Valle

Come Out and Play

2012as The Man

¿Quién diablos es Juliette?

1997as Himself

Tales of Mexico

2016Director

Siberia

2020as Doctor

Love on a Weekend

2010as Luis