Ricardo Darín ([riˈkaɾðo ðaˈɾin]; born January 16, 1957) is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and film director.

Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor. His most prominent roles as a film actor include Nine Queens (2000), El Hijo de la Novia (2001), Luna de Avellaneda (2004), El Aura (2005) and La Señal (2007), which was also his directorial debut. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009). In 2011 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, as the most important personality in Entertainment in the last decade in his country.

Biography

In 1988 Darín married Florencia Bas, with whom he has two children, Ricardo "Chino" Darín y Clara Darín. His sister, Alejandra Darín, is also an actress.

Darín has rejected the opportunity to play a drug trafficker in the Denzel Washington film Man on Fire, due to being unhappy at Hollywood’s negative stereotyping of Latin Americans.

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