Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal is a Movie Actor, and he was born on 30 November - 1978(44 years old) in Mexico. Gael García Bernal zodiac sign is Sagittarius. More detailed information about Gael García Bernal given below.

Gael García Bernal Timeline

• 2001
  

  Garcu00eda Bernal was with his partner, Argentine actress Dolores Fonzi, from 2008 to 2014. They met on the set of Vidas privadas in 2001. They never married, according to an interview given by Bernal. On 8 January 2009 their son Lu00e1zaro was born in Madrid, Spain. Their daughter, Libertad, was born on 4 April 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The couple ended their relationship in September 2014. He divides his time between Buenos Aires and Mexico City.

• 2002
  

  After Garcu00eda Bernalu0027s success in soap operas, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzu00e1lez Iu00f1u00e1rritu offered Garcu00eda Bernal a part in the Oscar-nominated Amores Perros (2000). The film won rave reviews, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. From there, Garcu00eda Bernal went on to star in several films, including director Alfonso Cuaru00f3nu0027s Y tu mamu00e1 tambiu00e9n (2001) and the Mexican box-office record-breaker El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002). He has also done some theatre work, including a 2005 production of Bodas de Sangre, by Federico Garcu00eda Lorca, in the Almeida Theatre in London. Garcu00eda Bernal also portrayed Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara twice, first in the 2002 TV miniseries Fidel and then, better known, in The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), an adaptation of a journal the 23-year-old Guevara wrote about his travels across South America. He was nominated for a BAFTA in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Motorcycle Diaries.

• 2007
  

  Garcu00eda Bernal directed his first feature film, Du00e9ficit which was released in 2007. He was cast in the 2008 film Blindness, an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Josu00e9 Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize, about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. As in the novel, the characters have only descriptions, no names or histories; while director Fernando Meirelles said some actors were intimidated by the concept of playing such characters, "u0027With Gael,u0027 he said, u0027I never think about the past. I just think what my character wants.u0027" Garcu00eda Bernal again paired with Diego Luna in Rudo y Cursi directed by Carlos Cuaru00f3n.

• 2010
  

  In May 2010, Garcu00eda Bernal did a cameo appearance as himself playing Cristiano Ronaldo in Ronaldo: The Movie for the Nike advertisement, Write the Future.In 2010, he co-directed with Marc Siver four short films in collaboration with Amnesty International. The tetralogy, called "Los Invisibles," is about migrants from Central America in Mexico, their journey and risks, their hopes, and what they can contribute to Mexico, the US and the world. He directed the movies, did the interviews and also narrates the four short movies. He starred in Even the Rain (2010), Spainu0027s official entry for the 2011 Academy Awards.

• 2011
  

  Garcu00eda Bernal narrated Human Planet for Hispanic audiences, which premiered on Discovery en Espau00f1ol on 25 April 2011 and aired on Discovery Channel in Latin America on 12 May. For the third time Garcu00eda Bernal appeared with Diego Luna in the American Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre, opposite Will Ferrell, where he played a feared drug lord. Garcu00eda Bernalu0027s next projects included a film adaptation of Josu00e9 Agustu00ednu0027s Ciudades Desiertas and the Jon Stewart directorial biopic Rosewater, in which he portrayed Maziar Bahari to widespread critical acclaim. He was set to star in the 20th Century Fox reboot Zorro film called Zorro Reborn. The script is by Glen Gers, Lee Shipman, and Brian McGeevy.Garcu00eda Bernal founded The Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, which works to bring documentary films to places where they are rarely shown, and helped to create the Amnesty International Short Documentary Series Los Invisibles. For this work, he was awarded the Washington Office on Latin Americau0027s Human Rights Award in 2011.

• 2014
  

  In April 2014, he was announced as a member of the main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.In June 2014, he began production as the star of the dramatic comedy Zoom, directed by Pedro Morelli.In 2014, he was cast in the lead role of Rodrigo de Souza in the Amazon Studios comedy-drama television series Mozart in the Jungle. His performance in the show was met with rave reviews, earning him a Golden Globe Award in 2016.

• 2016
  

  In 2016, he starred in two movies that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Desierto (Mexico) and Neruda (Chile).

• 2017
  

  In 2017, he was announced as a member of the U.S. Dramatic Jury at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. That same year, he provided the voice of Hu00e9ctor, an undead trickster and one of the main protagonists of the Pixar animated film Coco.

• 2019
  

  In October 2019 Garcu00eda Bernal and Diego Luna announced they were joining the Creative Advisory Board for TV and Film development company EXILE Content along with Adam Grant.