- Career
- Filmography Film Television
- External links
{{no footnotes|date=January 2013}}{{Infobox person | name = Damián Alcázar | image = Damián Alcázar in 2017 - 3.png | imagesize = | caption = Alcázar at the International Environmental Film Festival | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|1|8}} | birth_place = Michoacán, Mexico | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1985 - present }}Damián Alcázar (born January 8, 1953 in Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico) is a Mexican actor and politician, who is best known for portraying Colombian drug lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela in the Netflix series Narcos. He is a deputy in the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City. CareerDamián Alcázar studied acting first at the National Institute of Fine Arts and at the Theatrical Experimentation Center, then continued at the Faculty of Theater of the Veracruz University, where in later years he would work as a teacher. He served as an actor for eight years in two theatre companies, alongside the most prestigious directors in Mexico. Under the direction of George Labaudan guest, he appeared on the balcony of Jean Genet. He has appeared in six foreign films and more than twenty-eight Mexican films. He was awarded the Ariel for Best Actor in 1999 and in 2004, for the tapes Under California: The Time Limit, by Carlos Bolado, and in Crónicas, by Sebastián Cordero. He also won the prize for best actor at the Festival of Valladolid (Spain), for the latter. He received Ariel for Best Supporting Actor for El anzuelo by Ernesto Rimoch; by Lolo, Francisco Athié, and for the success of Carlos Carrera, The Crime of Father Amaro. Damián has been nominated to receive this same award four other times. He won the award for Best Actor at the Cartagena Film Festival (Colombia) for the film Two Crimes, by Roberto Sneider. He has also worked on telenovelas, being the most recent Secretos del corazón, produced by Epigmenio Ibarra for TV Azteca. In April 2013 he was awarded the Honor Prize of the Latin American Film Show of Lleida with José Coronado. Since June 2016, he has been a deputy elected by the leftist political party MORENA in the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City. Filmography Film Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|
1985 | El centro del laberinto | Short film | 1986 | Debutantes | Short film | 1987 | Pasa en las mejores familias | 1987 | Carta de un sobrino | Short film | 1989 | Romero | Campesino | 1989 | La ciudad al desnudo | La Suavecita | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor | 1990 | La ciudad al desnudo | Short film | 1991 | Un cielo cruel y una tierra colorada | Short film | 1991 | Sombra de ángel | Short film | 1991 | La leyenda de una máscara | Olmo Robles | 1991 | Bandidos | Mexican man | 1991 | Mujer del puerto | Marro | 1991 | El patrullero | Suspect #1 | 1991 | Diplomatic Immunity | Pool Cleaner / Hitman | Uncredited | 1992 | De barros | Short film | 1992 | Cita en el paraíso | Pablo | Short film | 1993 | Abuelita de Bakman | Escritor | 1993 | Lolo | Marcelino | Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor | 1994 | Ámbar | Prisoner #3 | 1995 | Dos crímenes | Marcos González | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor | 1995 | Algunas nubes | La Rata | 1995 | En el aire | Cmdr. Paco | 1996 | Tres minutos en la oscuridad | 1996 | El anzuelo | Humberto | Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor | 1996 | Katuwira | Caronte | 1996 | Overkill | José | 1997 | Men with Guns | Padre Portillo | | 1998 | Bajo California: El límite del tiempo | Damián | Ariel Award for Best Actor | 1999 | Ave María | Cuña | 1999 | La Ley de Herodes | Juan Vargas | Ariel Award for Best Actor | 1999 | Sofía | Pedro | 2000 | Compassionate Sex | Virgin man | | 2000 | Crónica de un desayuno | Taxist | 2001 | Pachito Rex - Me voy pero no del todo | 2001 | La habitación azul | Garduño | 2002 | The Crime of Father Amaro | Padre Natalio Pérez | Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor | 2004 | Crónicas | Vinicio Cepeda | Ariel Award for Best Actor | 2004 | Héctor | Martín | 2005 | Borderland | Ulises | 2005 | Las vueltas del citrillo | Sargento Collazo | Ariel Award for Best Actor | 2006 | Un mundo maravilloso | Juan Pérez | 2006 | Only God Knows | Presagio | 2006 | Fuera del cielo | Officer Rojas | 2007 | Satanás | Eliseo | 2007 | ¡Pega Martín pega! | 2008 | El viaje de Teo | Wenceslao | 2008 | Prince Caspian | Lord Sopespian | 2009 | Marea de arena | 2009 | Bala mordida | Commander | 2009 | Don't Let Me Drown | Ramón | 2009 | Of Love and Other Demons | Abrenuncio | 2009 | Corto libre | 2010 | De la infancia | Basilio Niebla | 2010 | Chicogrande | Chicogrande | 2010 | Garcia | Garcia | 2010 | El Infierno | Benjamín "El Benny" García | Ariel Award for Best Actor | 2010 | El último comandante | Paco Jarquín | 2012 | Fecha de caducidad | Genaro | 2012 | Hermano lejano | Psychologist | 2013 | Ciudadano Buelna | Lucio Blanco | 2013 | Forgotten | José Mendieta | 2014 | The Perfect Dictatorship | Governor Carmelo Vargas | 2014 | La sargento Matacho | Feliciano Pachón | 2014 | Eddie Reynolds y Los Ángeles de Acero | Lalo / Eddie | 2014 | Magallanes | 2015 | The Thin Yellow Line | Toño | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor | 2019 | The Mongolian Conspiracy | Filiberto García |
Television Year | Title | Role | Notes | 1986 | El camino secreto | José Luis | 1990 | Mi pequeña Soledad | Florentino | 1991 | Yo no creo en los hombres | Juan | 1999 | Cuentos para solitarios | Ramón | Episode: "La mala hora de Ramón" | 2000–2001 | Todo por amor | Don Mariano | 2003 | And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | General Rodolfo Fierro | Television film | 2003–2004 | El alma herida | Francisco "Frank" López | 2009–2012 | Kdabra | René | 33 episodes | 2010 | Las Aparicio | Hernán Almada | 2011 | El encanto del águila | Plutarco Elías Calles | 3 episodes | 2012 | Lynch | Eduardo Zúñiga | 2 episodes | 2012 | Capadocia | Alberto Gómez | 7 episodes | 2014 | Metástasis | Tuco Salamanca | 4 episodes | 2014 | Señora Acero | Vicente Acero | Guest role (season 1); archive footage (seasons 2-3) | 2015–2016 | El Dandy | Juan Antonio Ramírez / El Chueco | Main role | 2016–2017 | Narcos | Gilberto Orejuela | Main role; 18 episodes | 2017 | Sin senos sí hay paraíso | Don Chalo | Recurring role | 2018 | José José, el príncipe de la canción | José Sosa Esquivel | Recurring role | |
External links{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Alcazar, Damian}} 11 : Ariel Award winners|Best Actor Ariel Award winners|20th-century Mexican male actors|Mexican male film actors|Mexican male telenovela actors|21st-century Mexican male actors|1953 births|Living people|People from Jiquilpan, Michoacán|Male actors from Michoacán|Members of the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City |