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Gael García Bernal (born November 30, 1978) is a
Mexican actor.
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Biography
Early
life
García Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to
Patricia Bernal (an actress and former model) and José Ángel García (an actor
and director). His stepfather is Sergio Yasbek, whom his mother married when he
was young. He started acting at just a year old and spent most of his teen years
starring in soap operas.
When he was 14 he taught literacy to indigenous
peoples in Mexico, most often with the Huichol Indians. In his later teens he
attended demonstrations and wrote about the Chiapas people during the uprising
of 1994.
Career
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García Bernal was becoming a soap opera heartthrob,
but at age 19, he left Mexico's television world to study acting at the Central
School of Speech and Drama in London, becoming the first person from Mexico to
be accepted to the program. Subsequently, García Bernal has starred in some of
Mexico's most celebrated recent films, beginning with Amores Perros (2000), then
2001's Y Tu Mamá También, and El Crimen del Padre Amaro (2002). He has also done
some theatre work, including a 2005 production of Bodas de Sangre, by Federico
García Lorca, in the Almeida Theatre in London. However, it was his debut as a
working-class street thug in the Oscar-nominated Amores Perros that first
grabbed Hollywood's attention.
García Bernal also portrayed Argentine-born
physician turned Cubano revolutionary Che Guevara twice, first in the 2002 TV
miniseries Fidel and then, better known, in 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries, an
adaptation of a journal a 23-year-old Guevara wrote about his travels across
South America. García Bernal has worked for acclaimed directors like Pedro
Almodóvar, Walter Salles, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Michel Gondry, among
others. He has recently taken on roles in English language films, including the
Gondry-directed The Science of Sleep, the Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed
Babel, and The King, for which he has earned rave reviews. He has been nominated
for a BAFTA in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for "The
Motorcycle Diaries" and, in 2006, was nominated for the Orange Rising Star award
which acknowledges new talents in the acting industry.
Relationships
Gael García Bernal dated Natalie Portman for a year
after they met at the March 2003 Oscars; neither denies the past relationship.
Just after that Bernal met an English girl when he was performing Blood Wedding
in London whom he dated for a while. He reportedly dated Argentine actress
Dolores Fonzi; the press created an untrue rumor they were marrying in July
2006. Bernal and Portman got back together in 2006, and were photographed
together by paparazzi in July in Argentina, where Gael was filimg El Pasado. The
pair were also seen together in March in Toronto, and in London in October and
November 2006, where Portman was working at the time. Portman's co-star Dustin
Hoffman confirms in the December 2006 Elle magazine that Natalie was dating Gael
while filming in Toronto.
Quotes
"A person isn't born with the intelligence to be
with someone special, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you
don't have to give up the chance to love." [citation needed]
"The talent survives and remains while the beauty
is diluted." [citation needed]
"Changes occur that way. Suddenly the bricks fall
into place in some sort of chaotic serenity." [citation needed]
"I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for
me, I'll dance." [citation needed]
"I'm an actor. I don't need to abide by any
ethnicity." [citation needed]
Selected filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2006 Rudi y Cursi
2006 Babel Santiago
2006 The Science of Sleep Stéphane
2005 The King Elvis
2004 Bad Education Ángel/Juan/Zahara Goya
nomination for Best Film
2004 The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto Guevara de la
Serna (Argentina) Oscar winner for Best Song
2003 Dreaming of Julia Ricky
2003 Dot the I Kit Winter Deauville winner for
Audience Award
2002 I'm with Lucy Gabriel
2002 El Crimen del Padre Amaro Padre Amaro Oscar
nomination for Best Foreign Film
2001 Sin Noticias de Dios Davenport
2001 Vidas Privadas Gustavo 'Gana' Bertolini
2001 Y Tu Mamá También Julio Zapata Oscar
nomination for Best Original Screenplay
2000 Amores perros Octavio Oscar nomination for
Best Foreign Film
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