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Daniel Giménez Cacho is a Actor Espagnol born on 15 may 1961 at Madrid (Espagne)

Daniel Giménez Cacho

Daniel Giménez Cacho
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Birth name Daniel Giménez Cacho
Nationality Espagne
Birth 15 may 1961 (63 years) at Madrid (Espagne)

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 Tear This Heart Out, among others as well as in Spanish Films (Bad Education) 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 Argentinian TV series Locas de Amor.




Best films

Bad Education (2004)
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Filmography of Daniel Giménez Cacho (35 films)

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The Zone
The Zone (2007)
, 1h37
Directed by Rodrigo Plá
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maribel Verdú, Daniel Tovar, Carlos Bardem, Alan Chávez, Marina de Tavira
Roles Daniel
Rating69% 3.492663.492663.492663.492663.49266
A group of disadvantaged teenagers break into a gated community that is heavily under surveillance.
Innocent Voices, 2h32
Directed by Luis Mandoki
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Leonor Varela, Ofelia Medina, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María Yazpik, Paulina Gaitán, Jesús Ochoa
Roles Priest
Rating78% 3.9079053.9079053.9079053.9079053.907905
In 1986, Chava is a young 11-year-old boy from El Salvador. His father escaped to the United States at the start of the civil war when he was only 5. His family lives in a small town of Cuscatancingo that is currently heavily fought over between the Salvadoran army and the El Salvador guerrillas. His mother makes a living for the family by sewing, and Chava sells the clothes in shops. When he's not in school, Chava works for a bus driver announcing stations for him as a part-time service to help his family with money.
Bad Education, 1h45
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about television, L'usurpation d'identité, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Transgender in film, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Javier Cámara, Lluís Homar, Leonor Watling
Roles Padre Manolo
Rating73% 3.6997953.6997953.6997953.6997953.699795
In Madrid in 1980, Enrique Goded, a young film director, is looking for his next project when he receives the unexpected visit of an actor looking for work. The actor claims to be Enrique's boarding school friend and first love, Ignacio Rodriguez. Ignacio, who is using now the name Ángel Andrade, has brought with him a short story titled "The Visit" hoping that Enrique would be interested in making a film out of it giving him the starring role. Enrique is intrigued since "The Visit" described their time together at the Catholic school and it also includes a fictionalized account of their reunion many years later as adults.
The Art of Losing, 1h47
Directed by Sergio Cabrera
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Martina García, Mimí Lazo
Roles Víctor Silanpa
Rating62% 3.148033.148033.148033.148033.14803
A fisherman (Jorge Ali Triana) and his dog out for a walk and discover an Impaled corpse. A journalist named Victor Silampa (Gimenez Cacho) is writing an article a la Peter Gay, about bourgeouise attitudes about Romantic Love through the 17th to 19th centuries. Silampa receives a call from the Police-Colonel Aristophanes Moya (Benjumea) who calls him to the station immediately notifying him of the crime. Moya suggests an exchange of favors (Silampa had a criminal record), whereby the journalist would actively investigate the case while Moya will provide him with protection if, in addition, the journalist will "ghost-write" for him a speech for a slimming non-conformist Evangelical Christian sect, originating in Memphis, called "The Last Supper".
Nicotina
Nicotina (2003)
, 1h33
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Diego Luna, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jesús Ochoa, José María Yazpik, Rosa María Bianchi
Roles Beto
Rating64% 3.248793.248793.248793.248793.24879
Lolo is a male computer science geek who tangles with a clutch of the Russian mafia, when he delivers the wrong computer disk to them and with the disastrous results of drugs and smoking tobacco.
I Murder Seriously, 1h28
Origin Mexique
Genres Comedy, Black comedy
Actors Santiago Segura, Ivonne Montero, Jesús Ochoa, Gabriela Roel, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Roles Onofre
Rating55% 2.767192.767192.767192.767192.76719
Mexico. L'inspecteur de police Martinez doit enquêter sur une série de meurtres de prostituées qui semblent toutes avoir été tuées par un orgasme si puissant qu'il leur a été fatal. Martinez fait équipe avec l'anthropologue Onofre et obtient l'aide inespérée du père Gorkisolo, un prêtre ayant des connaissances inattendues dans le domaine sexuel.
Y Tu Mamá También, 1h45
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Verónica Langer, María Aura
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating76% 3.8482953.8482953.8482953.8482953.848295
The film uses an omniscient narrator to provide information on the characters and their personal life, historical Mexican events, and the settings depicted in the film. These "footnotes" also reveal the economic and political issues in Mexico, particularly the impoverished lifestyle of people living in rural areas across the country.
The Prince of the Pacific, 1h30
Directed by Alain Corneau
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, François Berléand, Marie Trintignant, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Roles Second
Rating47% 2.3596052.3596052.3596052.3596052.359605
Le capitaine Alfred de Morsac (Thierry Lhermitte) accoste en 1918 avec son navire militaire sur une île imaginaire appelée Fenua Poerava (« île de la perle noire » en tahitien), un paradis perdu dans l'archipel polynésien. Il est décoré de la Croix de guerre, et vient former un bataillon de tirailleurs océaniens pour renforcer les troupes de Verdun. Mais les habitants, les Hiva, sous la coupe de l'ignoble et cupide commandant Lefebvre, vont rapidement chasser l'officier français, qui entraîne avec lui Barnabé, un escroc au cœur tendre. Morsac s'est pourtant lié d'amitié avec un enfant, Reia, le prince de l'île. Ce dernier voit en lui le libérateur de son peuple. Néanmoins, la mère de Reia, Moeata, française d'origine, vivant en robe polynésienne et pieds nus, se méfie de ce Morsac.
Jealousy
Jealousy (1999)
, 1h45
Directed by Vicente Aranda
Genres Drama
Actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, María Botto, Luis Tosar
Roles Antonio
Rating60% 3.0474353.0474353.0474353.0474353.047435
Carmen and Antonio are a young couple in love, planning their upcoming wedding. Carmen works in an orange processing factory and Antonio is a long-distance truck driver for the same firm. While driving his truck on a stormy day, Antonio comes across an old picture of a group of people, among whom is Carmen looking friendly with a good-looking young man, who has his arm around her shoulder.
No One Writes to the Colonel, 1h58
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Genres Drama
Actors Fernando Luján, Salma Hayek, Marisa Paredes, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Odiseo Bichir
Roles Nogales
Rating65% 3.2872053.2872053.2872053.2872053.287205
Tous les vendredis, le colonel, vetu de son costume, attend, solennel sur le quai de la gare, la lettre qui doit lui annoncer le versement de la pension qu'on lui a promise. Tous les habitants de son village savent qu'il attend en vain. Meme sa femme en est persuadee. Mais le colonel continue a nier l'evidence. Chez lui, on meurt de faim. Sa femme est un sac d'os secouée de quintes de toux. Contre la misere, contre la faim, contre sa femme qui demande sans cesse: "Que mangerons-nous?", la reponse du colonel, ruminee depuis vingt ans est: "Nous mangerons de la merde!"
Who the Hell Is Juliette?, 1h31
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about prostitution
Actors Salma Hayek, Benny Ibarra, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Roles Himself
Rating67% 3.3817353.3817353.3817353.3817353.381735
Who the Hell is Juliette? begins with Yuliet Ortega saying that her name on the title card, Juliette Ortega, is misspelled and demanding that it is corrected. The director immediately complies and the card is corrected to Yuliet Ortega. Ortega is a 16-year-old girl who is being taken care of by her grandmother. Her mother committed suicide, while her father left his family and went to the United States. Ortega became a jinetera to support herself.
Deep Crimson, 1h54
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Regina Orozco, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Sherlyn, Julieta Egurrola
Roles Nicolas Estrella
Rating71% 3.5910353.5910353.5910353.5910353.591035
Coral Fabre (Regina Orozco) est une infirmière et mère célibataire de deux enfants qui tombe folle amoureuse de Nicolas Estrella (Gimenez Cacho), un petit escroc qui gagne sa vie en volant l'argent des femmes qu'il séduit. Tout d'abord repoussée, Coral décide d'abandonner ses enfants pour pouvoir partir avec Nicolas et l'aider dans ses affaires. Se faisant passer pour sa sœur, elle va sélectionner leurs futures victimes, des femmes veuves et aisées à la recherche d'un compagnon.