Talento de Jalisco
Personalidades del estado de Jalisco, México
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Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his own short films. At the age of 21, del Toro executive produced his first feature, Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985). Del Toro spent almost 10 years as a makeup supervisor, and formed his own company, Necropia in the early 1980s. He also produced and directed Mexican television programs at this time, and taught film.
Del Toro got his first big break when Cronos (1992) won nine Ariel Awards (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars), then went on to win the International Critics Week Prize at Cannes. Following this success, del Toro made his first Hollywood film, Mimic (1997), starring Mira Sorvino.
Del Toro had some unfortunate experiences working with a demanding Hollywood studio on Mimic (1997), and returned to Mexico to form his own production company, The Tequila Gang.
Next for del Toro, was The Devil's Backbone (2001), a Spanish Civil War ghost story. The film was hailed by critics and audiences alike, and del Toro decided to give Hollywood another try. In 2002, he directed the Wesley Snipes vampire sequel, Blade II (2002).
On a roll, Del Toro followed up Blade II (2002) with another successful comic-book inspired film, Hellboy (2004), starring one of Del Toro's favorite actors, Ron Perlman.
Del Toro is divorced, has a daughter and a son and lives in Los Angeles and Toronto.- Actor
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Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal, an actress/model & José Ángel García, an actor/director. His stepfather's cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. He began his acting career as a child, working w/ his parents in a variety of plays. At 14, he starred in a soap opera called El abuelo y yo (1992). He appeared in film school exercises and short films, including De tripas, corazón (1996), which was directed by Antonio Urrutia & nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film. He also starred in El ojo en la nuca (2001), a short film directed by Rodrigo Plá. He studied acting at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London. Amores Perros (2000) was his first major feature film, followed by And Your Mother Too (2001), directed by Alfonso Cuarón & filmed by Emmanuel Lubezki.- Katy Jurado was born María Cristina Estela Jurado García into a wealthy family on January 16, 1924. Her early years were spent amid luxury until her family's lands were confiscated by the federal government for redistribution to the landless peasantry. Despite the loss of property, the matriarch of the family, her grandmother, continued to live by her aristocratic ideals. When movie star Emilio Fernandez discovered Katy at the age of 16 and wanted to cast her in one of his films, Jurado's grandmother objected to her wish to become a movie actress. To get around the ban, Katy slipped from the grasp of her family's control by marrying actor Víctor Velázquez.
Jurado eventually made her debut in No matarás (1943) during the what has been called "The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema". Blessed with stunning beauty and an assertive personality, Jurado specialized in playing determined women in a wide variety of films in Mexico and the United States. Her looks were evocative of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, and she used what she called her "distinguished and sensuous look" to carve a niche for herself in Mexican cinema. Indian features were unusual for a film star in Mexico--despite the success of Fernandez, the fabled "El Indio"--and her ethnic look meant she typically was cast as a dangerous seductress, a popular type in Mexican movies. The Mexican media reported that an American movie director at one of her first Hollywood auditions laughed at her derisively because she spoke English so poorly, and an outraged Jurado promptly stormed out of the audition room, cursing in Spanish. As it turned out, that kind of brazen behavior was exactly the type of personality that the director was looking for.
In addition to acting, Jurado worked as a movie columnist and radio reporter to support her family. She also worked as a bullfight critic, and it was at a bullfight that Jurado was spotted by John Wayne and director Budd Boetticher. Boetticher, who was also a professional bullfighter, cast Jurado in his autobiographical film Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), which he shot in Mexico. She was cast in her part despite having very limited English-language skills and had to speak her lines phonetically. Luis Buñuel cast her in his Mexican melodrama The Brute (1953), and then she made her big breakthrough in American films in the role of Gary Cooper's former mistress, saloon owner Helen Ramirez, in High Noon (1952). The role necessitated her moving to Hollywood. She received two Golden Globe nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for that part, for Most Promising Newcomer and Best Supporting Actress, winning the latter. "She planted the Mexican flag in the U.S. film industry, and made her country proud", said National Actors Association official Mauricio Hernandez. Her "High Noon" performance historically proved to be an important acting watershed for Latino women in American movies. Jurado's portrayal undermined the Hollywood stereotype of the flaming, passionate Mexican "spitfire." Previously, Mexican and Latino women in Hollywood films were characterized by an unbridled sexuality, as exemplified by such diverse actresses as Lupe Velez, Dolores Del Río (who came to loathe Hollywood and returned to Mexico in the 1940s), and Rita Hayworth, nee Margarita Cansino. Although Jurado's character was forced to kow-tow to the stereotype in "High Noon", delivering such lines as, "It takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man," the actress' great dignity in her role as a moral arbiter among the competing factions of the marshal and his fiancée, the townspeople and the gunmen out to kill the marshal showed her Helen Ramirez to be in control and controlled by nothing, not even her former love for the marshal. Her restrained performance, delivered with a great deal of conviction, emphasized the shortcomings of the rest of the other characters. Her moral integrity is the reason she, like the marshal, must abandon the town.
With her superb performance, Jurado proved that Latino women could be more than just sexpots in the American cinema. Importantly, working against the tropes of a racist cinema, she used her talent to introduce into the American cinema the model of the un-stereotyped Mexican woman who is identifiably Mexican. One of the best examples of this can be seen at the end of the middle of her career, when Jurado played sheriff Slim Pickens' wife and partner in Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973). Determined and tough as nails, Jurado's character was clearly her screen husband's equal, and she had a very moving scene with Pickens as his character faced death. Jurado was blessed with extraordinary eyes, which were both beautiful and expressive, their beauty and strength never fading with age. Two years after "High Noon", Jurado received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Spencer Tracy's Indian wife in Edward Dmytryk's Broken Lance (1954), making her the first Mexican actress thus honored.
She refused to sign a contract with a major Hollywood studio in order to be able to return to Mexico between her American roles to star in Mexican films. She +remained in Los Angeles for 10 years, marrying Ernest Borgnine, her co-star in The Badlanders (1958), in 1959. During their tempestuous relationship, Jurado and Borgnine separated and reconciled before finally separating for good in 1961. The tabloids reported that Borgnine had abused her, and their separation proved rocky as well, as they fought over alimony. Their divorce became final in 1964. Borgnine summed up his ex-wife as "beautiful, but a tiger", a bon mot that described her on-screen persona as well (she had two children with former husband Victor Velasquez, a daughter and a son, who tragically was killed in an automobile accident in 1981).
Jurado played the wife of Marlon Brando's nemesis Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) in One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Brando's sole directorial effort. In her role she also was the mother of a young woman who was Brando's love interest, thus marking a career transition point as she assumed the role of a mature woman. As Jurado aged, she appeared in fewer films, but notable among them included Arrowhead (1953) with Charlton Heston, Trapeze (1956) in support of Burt Lancaster and Man from Del Rio (1956) with her fellow Mexican national Anthony Quinn who, unlike Jurado, had become an American citizen. She also appeared with Quinn in _Barabbas (1962)_and The Children of Sanchez (1978).
She appeared on the Western-themed American TV shows Death Valley Days (1952), The Rifleman (1958), The Westerner (1960) and The Virginian (1962). Her career in the US began to wind down, and she was reduced to appearing in "B" pictures like Smoky (1966) with Fess Parker and the Elvis Presley movie Stay Away, Joe (1968). She attempted to commit suicide in 1968, and then moved back home to Mexico permanently, though she continued to appear in American films as a character actress. Her last American film appearance was in Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country (1998), capping a half-century-long American movie career that continued due to her talent and remarkable presence, long after her extraordinary good looks had faded.
Aside from acting in films in the US and Europe, she continued to act in Mexican films. Her most memorable role in Mexican movies was in Nosotros los pobres (1948) (aka "We the Poor") opposite superstar Pedro Infante. Though in the latter part of her career she appeared occasionally in American films shot in Mexico (including an appearance with her former mentor, Emilio Fernandez, in "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" and John Huston's Under the Volcano (1984)), she appeared mostly in Mexican movies in the last decades of her career, becoming a prominent and highly respected character actress. She played the leader of a religious cult in the Bunuel-like satire Divine (1998). Jurado won three Ariel awards, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar, a Best Supporting Actress award in 1954 for Bunuel's The Brute (1953) a Best Actress Award in 1974 for Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974) and a Best Supporting Actress award in 1999 for "El evangelio de las Maravillas". She also was awarded a Special Golden Ariel for Lifetime Achievment in 1997. In the north, she was honored with a Golden Boot Award by the Motion Picture & Television Fund in 1992 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jurado was an avid promoter of her home state of Morelos as a location for filmmakers.
Towards the end of her life, she suffered from heart and lung ailments. Katy Jurado died on July 5, 2002, at the age of 78 at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was survived by her daughter. - Director
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Patricia Riggen was born on 2 June 1970 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is a director and producer, known for The 33 (2015), La milpa (2002) and Under the Same Moon (2007). She is married to Checco Varese. They have one child.- Actor
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Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is the star of Netflix series "The Lincoln Lawyer." Born in Mexico, Garcia-Rulfo studied in the U.S. and found his passion in acting. After returning to Mexico and appearing in television and film there, he returned to the US and made his feature debut in Carl Franklin's "Bless Me Ultima." Ensuing film credits include "A Man Called Otto," "6 Underground," "Sicario:Day of the Soldado,", "Murder on the Orient Express," and "The Magnificent Seven."- Actor
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Erick Elias was born on June 23, 1980 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. A descendant of a family of architects, he started by studying for acting, music, dance, and modeling at a young age. He has been appearing in some telenovelas and other television series. His protagonist debut was in the telenovela Tormenta en el paraiso with Sara Maldonado in 2007. He has also dabbled in film dubbing and tape. In 2008, he married Karla Guindi. In 2010, he starred in the telenovela Niña de mi Corazon with Paulina Goto. In 2014, he starred in the telenovela El color de la Pasion with Esmeralda Pimentel. He has 2 daughters with Karla Guindi: Penelope and Olivia.- Actress
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María Victoria was born on 26 February 1923 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Unos granujas decentes (1980), Cupido pierde a Paquita (1955) and Sortilegio (2009).- Actor
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Cesar Rodriguez was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1985. Both his father and mother were doctors, and expected his eldest son to follow their steps. At age 15, Cesar moved with his family to Houston, TX, because his father wanted him to learn English and go to college there. After finishing High School, it was at the University of Houston where Cesar started taking theatre classes without telling his parents. Cesar knew at that moment that he wanted to become an actor. He started performing and became part of the "Unheard Voices" theatre company at the University. He never invited his family to any of his shows out of fear of them realizing he had changed his major.
After graduating college, he finally told his parents about his plans of moving to Los Angeles, to continue preparing himself as an actor. That summer, he packed his car and moved to L.A. without a job and $300 dollars in his wallet. He enrolled in the Baron Brown Studio acting program in Santa Monica. Before finishing the program, Academy Award nominated actress, Adriana Barraza, invited Cesar to go to Miami to be part of the Telemundo Acting Studio.
Cesar started doing T.V. commercials and small roles in different projects in L.A. while finishing school. He soon realized that he wanted to create his own opportunities and started writing his first script. He met fellow actor Mauricio Argüelles at an audition in West Hollywood and became best friends and business partners. After getting his first script financed ("Una Ultima y nos Vamos), Cesar moved to Mexico City where he started a production company called Epoca Films and has produced, written and starred in several movies since then.- Actress
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Esther Fernández was born on 22 August 1918 in Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico. She was an actress and writer, known for Flor de durazno (1945), Santa (1943) and The Macabre Trunk (1936). She was married to Antonio Badú. She died on 21 October 1999 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.- Director
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Director and Producer, who was born in 1872 and became one of the first Filmakers in Mexican cinema, he began studying to become an engineer, but eventually he became attracted to filmaking and in 1897, he opened the first movie theatre in Mexico city, a year later he began to produce and direct his own movies which were mostly documentaries, he began filming in 1898, he went on to film a large number of documentaries, including some about the Mexican revolution, his last film was shot in 1921, in 1950 his daughter Carmen Toscano, included many scenes of her father's films in a documentary film entitled, Memorias de un Mexicano.- Actor
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José Elías Moreno was born on 12 November 1910 in Las Palmas, Unión de San Antonio, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an actor and writer, known for Santa Claus (1959), Las tres perfectas casadas (1953) and La bestia magnífica (1952). He was married to Beatriz Jimeno. He died on 15 July 1969 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.- Marco Treviño is known for The Taste of Christmas (2023), Pancho Villa: The Centaur of the North (2023) and Mar de fondo (2020).
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Vicente Leñero was born on 9 June 1933 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was a writer and director, known for Misterio (1980), The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002) and Midaq Alley (1995). He was married to Estela Franco. He died on 3 December 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Director
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Co-founder of the special effects mexican house Necropia (1985), along with Guillermo del Toro. Necropia is responsible for the special effects in several films, such as "Cabeza De Vaca", "Dollar Mambo", "Mentiras Piadosas", "Bandidos", and many more. As member of Necropia, Rigo Mora worked in all the "Hora Marcada" (TV Series) chapters. Necropia's last work was for the directorial debut in a feature film of Guillermo del Toro, "Cronos" (1993).
Rigo Mora has also collaborated as an advisor in many animation projects generated in his native Guadalajara and in Mexico City, like the awarded "El Octavo Dia, la creacion", "Sin Sosten" and "Hasta Los Huesos".
Mora has directed the animated short films "La gran obra", "Polifemo", "Sombras", "Devorador Onírico" and "Cómo Preparar Un Sandwich" (This one based upon an original idea by Guillermo del Toro), and the live action short "Encrucijada", starring Ignacio Guadalupe and Rodrigo Murray.
In 2010, The Guadalajara International Film Festival created the "Rigo Mora Award" for the best animated Mexican short film in competition.- Producer
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Fernando Lebrija, a Mexican-American filmmaker, born in Guadalajara Mexico. He completed a Masters in Fine arts in Film at the American Film Institute. Also a year of postgraduate studies in Screenwriting at UCLA in Los Angeles. Before starting making feature films, Fernando had a successful career as a Television Director-Producer, for big TV networks like Fox Sports, MTV, and Televisa Networks, he also directed a number of music videos, and many commercial campaigns. With his film directorial debut, "Amar a Morir" (2009) "Love till death", Fernando won and been nominated for multiple awards. Winning Best film debut Director in the Diosas De Plata Awards 2010 (Mexican Golden Globes), he also won the New Vision Award in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Nominated best director in the The Imagen Awards in Los Angeles. Fernando's R rated comedy "Sundown" (2016), had a theatrical released in the US and Latin America by Pantelion (Lionsgate). Then he directed a Netflix Original movie called "#Realityhigh" (2017) with a worldwide released. Fernando Produced one of the top Box office record feature film in Spanish called "No Manches Frida 2", release in theaters in the US, grossing around the world close to 25 million dollars. Then he produced a few movies for Netflix "Se Busca Papa" (2020) "Dad Wanted" and "Sin Hijos" (2021) "One small problem". In Series he Executive produced and directed the Pilot episode and 2 more episodes of the HIT show "The key Game" for Amazon Prime and Pantaya. Fernando is developing more features and a TV series as we speak with his development company Cielo Content.- Additional Crew
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Rodolfo Guzmán was born July 6, 1975 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was conductor of several programs of film criticism on radio and television and a jury member in the Festivals: Guanajuato "Expresión en Corto", Guadalajara Film Festival and San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. His first movie, "Llamando a un Ángel" won the People Choice Award in Guadalajara Film Fest, distributed in Mexico by Buena Vista and theatrical release also in Russia. He was Production Manager of Battalion 52 which was the realization of 52 animated shorts to commemorate the Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Revolution in Mexico. He work with Guillermo del Toro in the Documentary "El Duque" about Rigo Mora, one of the most important animator in Mexico. He participated in the Cannes Film Festival 2011 in Short Film Corner with his production "Flowers" directed and written by Rubí Salles. He was the President of the Jalisco Film Academy His second movie "El Secreto del Medallón de Jade" (The Secret of the Jade Medallion) an animated feature film created with motion capture (the first Mexican movie with mocap) with the voice of, academy award nominee, Adriana Barraza, won the children's choice award in Guadalajara Film Fest and also in Mar del Plata Film Fest in Argentina; the movie was nominated for the Premios Platino in the category Best Iberoamerican Animated Film. Right now he's the Head of the Film Unit of the Universidad de Guadalajara and the Director of the Jalisco Film Commission.- Director
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Rita Basulto is known for Lluvia en los ojos (2013), El octavo día de la creación (2003) and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022).- Director
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Karla Castañeda is known for The Waterwheel (2012), Jacinta (2008) and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022).- Animation Department
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Luis Téllez is known for Viva el Rey (2017), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and In Flames: Here Until Forever (2017). He is married to Karla Castañeda.- Isaac Hernández was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, one of 11 children of Hector Hernández.
Trained at Philadelphia's The Rock School for Dance Education, he has worked as a professional ballet dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and the English National Ballet where he is currently (2018) Lead Principal Dancer.
Apart from his dance career, he has also become an icon for the arts and culture in Mexico, promoting them as a force for social cohesion and progress through free cultural events, workshops and his non-profit organization Releve A.C.
He is also an ambassador for the brands Montblanc, citibank and Maestro Dobel. - Actor
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Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino was born on April 8, 1908, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Over the objections of his father, he trained early as a singer and, as such, was sent to New York in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara. While there he had a radio show, "Tito Guízar y su Guitar", and studied opera. In 1932 he married another Mexican singer, Carmen Noriega. He performed both operatic and Mexican cowboy songs at Carnegie Hall. His 1936 movie Out on the Big Ranch (1936) launched the singing cowboy film in Mexico and succeeded as well in the United States. From there he went to Hollywood, playing with such stars as Roy Rogers, Dorothy Lamour and Mae West. He continued playing series parts in Mexican television well into the 1990s. Tito Guízar died at age 91, survived by a son, two daughters and five grandchildren.- Actor
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Andres began his career on stage, participating in more than a dozen theatre productions, including "Hamlet" in the title role, "The Real Thing", "The Lonesome West" earning respect from his peers early on.
On film he became noticed after playing the antagonist role of the controversial hit "The Crime of Father Amaro" (nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe as Best Foreign Film), and since then he has performed in more than twenty movies, among which stand out "La Zona", "More Than Anything in The World", "Cinco de Mayo" and "Citizen Buelna"; working with renowned directors in Mexican cinema such as Felipe Cazals, Carlos Carrera, Antonio Serrano, Carlos Bolado and Rodrigo Plá. He was also the recipient of two awards as Best Actor for the film "Day Six" in Italy.
For Television his work can be seen in a variety of roles: "El Encanto del Aguila", "Cesar", "Club de Cuervos", "Run Coyote Run", "Infames" and the upcoming "Centauro Del Norte".
He recently played leading roles in the films "Monstruosly Alone" alongside Erendira Ibarra, and "Broken Souls".- Producer
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Sherlyn was born on 14 October 1985 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Elisa Before the End of the World (1997), Don't Mess with an Angel (2008) and The Duchess of Cancun (2018). She was previously married to Gerardo Islas.- Director
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Sofìa Carrillo is known for Prita Noire (2011), The Wandering Witch (2018) and La Casa Triste (2013).